Garlic has many preventive and medicinal properties. The beneficial effect of garlic can be enhanced by preparing a medicinal tincture based on alcohol or vodka, with the addition of vinegar, lemon, honey and pepper.
Traditional medicine offers a whole range of pharmaceutical products, the admission of which will help to clean the walls of blood vessels from cholesterol accumulations, but medications have a number of side effects and therefore it is better to clean the blood vessels with means that are safer, more natural.
One of these proven folk natural remedies is garlic tincture on vodka.
What helps?
Garlic owes its powerful healing properties to organic compound allicin.. It has antibacterial, antithrombotic and anti-inflammatory properties.
In general, garlic tincture brings such benefits.:
- Protects the body from pathogenic microflora, viruses and fungi. Allicin is a natural antibiotic, the effect of its use is similar to the effect of penicillin.
- Lowers cholesterol. The active substances of garlic stimulate the gallbladder and pancreas, which helps to reduce the content of "bad" cholesterol in the blood and serves to prevent the formation of vascular plaques.
- Interferes with formation of blood clots. Sulfur-containing chemical compounds dissolve blood clots and blood clots, normalize blood clotting processes and prevent further blood clots.
- Improves blood flow. Plant components reduce the ability of platelets to stick together and form conglomerates.
Garlic normalizes the nervous system, prevent nervous disorders and depression. It restores the functions of the liver and strengthens the heart muscle, helps fight intestinal parasites and rejuvenates the body at the cellular level.
A sprig of parsley, mint leaves, cardamom seeds or cinnamon will help refresh your breath after eating garlic.
Garlic tincture harm:
- the presence of alcohol in the composition may adversely affect the health of pregnant and lactating women, children and patients suffering from alcohol dependence;
- garlic is irritating to the gastrointestinal tract, can cause exacerbation of chronic inflammatory processes and ulcers;
- due to the excitatory effect on the nervous system worsens health in patients suffering from epilepsy;
- the choleretic effect of the tincture can lead to movement of gallstones and cause hepatic colic.
We offer to watch a video about the benefits of garlic tincture on alcohol:
Contraindications
The possible negative impact of the components of the tincture does not allow it to be recommended to the following categories of persons:
- pregnant women and women during lactation;
- patients under the age of 18 years;
- patients with a diagnosis of epilepsy;
- patients suffering from diseases of the urinary and gallbladder in acute and chronic forms;
- patients with exacerbation of hemorrhoids;
- patients suffering from diseases of the stomach and intestines.
The tincture is used not only orally, but also externally - it smears the skin with pediculosis, bacterial and fungal lesions of the epidermis.
Best recipes
The medicine based on garlic infused with vodka is good because the ingredients for its preparation are always at hand, and the recipes for how to prepare and take it are so simple that anyone can handle them.
Traditional
The classic recipe for vodka includes such ingredients:
- 150 g of peeled garlic in cloves;
- 150 ml of good vodka.
How to insist:
- Chop garlic cloves.
- Prepare a small glass bowl, wash.
- Place garlic in a container.
- Cover with vodka, mix the components thoroughly and close the vessel with a lid.
- Wrap the container with a thick cloth to protect the contents from sunlight.
- Put the tincture in a dark cool place.
After 10 days, filter and take the medicine.
Regimen:
- On the first day after breakfast, take one drop, after lunch - 2 drops, after dinner - three drops.
- The second day - 4 drops after breakfast, 5 drops in the afternoon and 6 after the evening meal.
Subsequent days, the dosage is increased each time one drop, bringing up to 25 drops per reception. At this dose, the medication continues to be taken until the whole tincture is over.
With lemon
Lemon enhances the beneficial properties of garlic, improves immunity and saturates the body with vitamins.
Ingredients:
- 4 heads of garlic;
- 4 medium lemons;
- Vodka - about 2 glasses.
How to cook:
- Garlic skip through the press.
- Squeeze the juice from the lemons.
- Put the ingredients in a jar.
- Pour the vodka so that the lemons and garlic are covered completely.
- Leave in a warm dark place for 14 days, shaking the jar daily.
How to drink medicine: take the remedy three times a day before meals: Dissolve 5 drops in a tablespoon of pure water and drink. Course duration - 40 days.
The agent based on garlic infused with lemon does not lose its healing properties when heated. It can be added to tea or coffee.
With honey
What is included:
- garlic - 1 large clove;
- Vodka - 1 bottle of 0.5 liters;
- Honey - 1 tablespoon.
Step by Step Cooking:
- Finely chop the garlic.
- Put in a dark glass jar.
- Add vodka and honey, mix.
- Capacity to tie with gauze or a clean cloth.
- Remove from sunlight for 3-4 days.
It is used as a prophylactic agent in the season of colds 30-50 ml once a day.
With pepper
A cold garlic tincture with the addition of hot peppers will help to cope with the early stages of a cold.
Ingredients:
- 1 bottle of vodka;
- 2-3 cloves of garlic;
- 1 pod of hot red pepper.
Cooking:
- Finely chop the garlic.
- Pepper pod cut into three parts.
- Pour the ingredients into a spacious jar, pour alcohol.
- Cover tightly and place in a dark place to infuse.
- After three days, strain through a cotton gauze filter. Is done.
With vinegar
Cure sprains of muscles and ligaments, tincture based on apple cider vinegar will help to cope with skin diseases. It can not drink, and you can only lubricate the affected areas.
What is needed:
- 10 garlic cloves;
- 500 ml of apple cider vinegar;
- 100 ml of vodka.
Step-by-step instruction:
- Peel the garlic and chop into a homogeneous mush.
- Put gruel in a glass jar, pour a mixture of vinegar and vodka.
- Tightly close and leave in a dark place. Every day, the vessel must be shaken to the composition turned out homogeneous.
- After 2 weeks to filter the composition, you can add 2-3 drops of eucalyptus essential oil.
Tibetan recipe
This tincture is considered a natural elixir of youth, it normalizes the metabolism, eliminates harmful deposits and restores internal tone.
Composition:
- 350 g fresh garlic;
- 200 ml of ethanol concentration of 70%.
How to make tincture:
- Crush garlic in a wooden mortar. It is important to use a wooden (non-metallic) device that does not distort the medical composition.
- Place garlic gruel in a glass jar.
- Pour the alcohol, close the lid, shake the mixture vigorously.
- Infusing the composition is better in a cool room, away from the sun. After 10 days, let the liquid pass through a gauze filter, squeeze and insist another 3-4 days.
How to use: You need to take the medicine according to the scheme described above, as well as the vodka-based tincture: three times a day, increasing the single dose by one drop.
Traditional healers recommend starting treatment with garlic tincture in the fall - at this time the vegetable contains a maximum of useful substances.
Possible side effects
Side effects of tincture associated with the characteristics of the composition of garlic and alcohol:
- sleep disorders;
- tachycardia;
- heartburn;
- frequent urination;
- increase appetite and hunger.
If during the reception of tincture the state of health worsens, it is necessary to stop treatment with garlic and consult a doctor to find out the cause of the symptoms.
Before starting treatment with a tincture of garlic on vodka, it is necessary to eliminate contraindications and evaluate the likely benefit and harm from the tincture. Homemade medicine can be used as a prophylactic, fortifying agent cannot replace medicines prescribed by a doctor.
