Garlic is a popular, unpretentious plant that belongs to the onion family. Besides the fact that garlic is a tasty seasoning, it is also known to all for its beneficial properties and is often used to treat various diseases.
All this is because the composition of garlic includes more than four hundred components that favorably affect the human body. This is what helps to prevent and cope with a large number of diseases.
But many lovers of garlic think about it, and what is the use or harm of a plant, is it possible to eat it at night and why it cannot be consumed in certain diseases? How will this affect the well-being?
Is it possible to eat a vegetable at night?
Unfortunately, this vegetable bears in itself not only useful, but also harmful properties. And bad breath is not the first place, why you should not get involved in garlic before bedtime. Harmful properties of garlic:
- The first reason why it is not recommended to eat garlic before bedtime: it can increase pressure and cause a headache.
- Garlic has a stimulating effect: an increase in pulse rate and heart rate.
- Thirdly, it excites the nervous system, which prevents sleep. A healthy sleep affects our well-being and mood.
- Fourthly, if you eat garlic before bedtime on an empty stomach, it can cause bloating, diarrhea or constipation, and heartburn.
But, despite these unpleasant consequences, garlic at bedtime brings with it useful properties.
Benefit
Due to the huge number of useful components, garlic has increasingly become used in traditional medicine. But what is the benefit of this vegetable when consumed at night:
- Garlic helps fight obesity, micro and macro elements in its composition accelerate metabolic processes in the body, contributing to the loosening and splitting of fats.
- Many people know the antibacterial properties of garlic. This is because it contains a large number of volatile production, which, in turn, prevent the reproduction of various types of pathogenic bacteria and parasites.
- Thanks to lecithin, which is found in large quantities in garlic, the level of cholesterol in the human body is reduced and the occurrence of atherosclerotic plaques is prevented.
- A cold passes faster if you put a plate of finely chopped garlic in front of the patient's bed at night (read how to use garlic for cold) here.
This magic mixture of garlic and kefir will help not only in the fight against colds, but also for weight loss. For cooking you will need only two ingredients: garlic and kefir.
What is the benefit of a drink from kefir and garlic:
- Cleans the body from toxins.
- It cleanses the body of parasites.
- Accelerates metabolism and normalizes digestion.
- Strengthens the immune system (about strengthening the immune system of garlic can be found here).
Recipe with kefir for weight loss
To make garlic and kefir, we need:
- Two cloves of garlic.
- One liter of kefir.
- Greens to taste (basil, dill, parsley or other herbs).
- 1 tbsp. l unrefined or olive oil.
Beat all the ingredients in a blender, and now we get a great tonic drink.
The drink can not be used with cardiovascular diseases, gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer, as well as with impaired liver and kidney functions. This recipe should be used with caution, take into account the personal intolerance of the components.
It is also impossible to arrange fasting days on kefir-garlic cocktails, since the increased secretion of gastric juice can lead to gastritis, ulcers and constipation. Drink for weight loss should be applied 3 times a day, 200 ml for 30 minutes before meals.
From parasites
To do this, we need 2 cups of kefir, squeeze one slice of garlic into them. The resulting mixture should be infused for two to three hours. Garlic and kefir are used strictly for the night.
Read more about how you can still use garlic from parasites, read here.
Harm
Reference! Garlic irritates the mucous membrane of the stomach and other digestive organs, provoking the exacerbation of chronic diseases, and can harm your health.
If you have at least one of the diseases listed below, then drinking garlic is prohibited:
- Peptic ulcer and duodenal ulcer (about the effect of garlic on the gastrointestinal tract can be found here).
- Gastritis, especially in the period of exacerbation.
- Epilepsy.
- Intestinal obstruction (constipation).
- Pancreatitis.
- Heartburn.
- Acute cholecystitis.
- Chronic and acute diseases of the kidneys and liver.
But besides kefir-garlic cocktails, there are also other useful recipes that help support the body, such as milk and garlic, too, carry a number of useful properties.
Recipe with milk
This universal remedy helps to cope with stress, fights parasites, cleans blood vessels and improves immunity. One way to get rid of worms is to take 10 drops of fresh garlic juice.. At the same time it is necessary to drink it with a glass of warm boiled milk. On top of that, this recipe also helps in the fight against arthritis.
The benefit of the second recipe is that it helps to cope with insomnia, for this we need to add a clove of finely chopped garlic to half a liter of warm milk, add 1-2 teaspoons of honey to the drink. Consume 15 minutes before bedtime.
Important! It is not recommended to use garlic and garlic recipes for pregnant and lactating women.
Combination with cold honey
- It is necessary to take 2 heads of garlic and cut into thin slices or cubes.
- After you need to dry for a day.
- The next day, as the garlic dried, you need to grind it into powder and add honey so that you can roll it into small pills or balls.
- It is necessary to accept on 1 "tablet" 3 times a day in 10 - 20 minutes prior to food.
"Socks" with mustard
“Socks” with mustard help to overcome a cold. To do this, you need 2 tbsp. l mustard powder and 2 cloves of garlic, (must first be grated on a fine grater to a mushy state). Mix with mustard powder and pour 1 tbsp. hot (boiled) water, mix everything thoroughly and apply the mixture on your feet, then you need to wear wool socks. This procedure is done at night.
Using this recipe, be extremely careful, you can get burned. Garlic is undoubtedly a useful vegetable that helps us to overcome many diseases, but do not get too carried away and abuse of traditional medicine and self-treatment.