The Garlic Book: Nature's Powerful Healer [Paperback]

Stephen Fulder (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 1997

Garlic's unparalleled taste -- and its health benefits -- are heralded in two new guides

Findings that garlic fights infection and heart disease have led to an explosion in its popularity -- and in the production of supplements that offer all the benefits of garlic without its odor. But how does garlic work? Is there an optimal dose? Does taking too much cause any side effects?

Many cultures have benefited from garlic's healing powers for centuries, but Americans are just beginning to explore its medicinal properties. Garlic reduces blood pressure, aids circulation, and prevents stroke. Stephen Fulder describes the most effective ways to use the "stinking rose".

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The world can be divided into those who love garlic and those who hate it, but few dispute its medicinal uses, indeed, lovers usually have it on hand and loathers readily accept it as powerful medicine because it tastes so awful. Fulder, of Ginger Book and Ginseng Book fame, now gives garlic the same informative treatment. He shows how and why garlic is useful in handling certain diseases and conditions such as heart disease, stroke, blood clotting, high cholesterol, and many problems caused by bacteria and fungi. Moreover, it has practically no side effects, can be taken for a long time, and helps in the garden against various pests. Fulder also cites some of garlic's roles in society, writes about many garlic products, and tells how they are prepared. Still, Fulder isn't an unreasonable fanatic: he points out that France's garlic-loving King Henry IV had, a contemporary said, "a breath that would fell an ox at twenty paces." William Beatty

Product Details

• Paperback: 139 pages
• Publisher: Avery (March 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0895297868
• ISBN-13: 978-0895297860
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,225,219 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Potent Medicinal Plant, July 31, 2004

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Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Garlic Book: Nature's Powerful Healer (Paperback)

Modern science has confirmed that garlic possesses strong curative powers, especially for lowering cholesterol, stabilising blood pressure and as a natural antibiotic. This practical guide looks at garlic as medicine and food and tells the reader how to include it in a self-care regimen.

The book provides a brief history of garlic, investigates its potential, its role in heart disease, explains how garlic thins the blood and explores the plant's other actions. These include its role as an antibiotic. Although garlic has a slower and weaker effect than antibiotics, it has almost no side effects, does not create bacterial resistance and acts against a very wide range of organisms. It is thus perfect for use against chronic and less dangerous infections.

Garlic is particularly effective against fungal and yeast infections and parasites, as its reactive sulphur compounds attack the invasive organisms without harming the body. The section on products and preparations considers garlic oil capsules, dried garlic powder and deodorised, aged garlic. The Further Reading section includes a list of books and selected scientific references on the specific properties of garlic. The book concludes with an index.

4.0 out of 5 stars Lots of useful information!, February 28, 2011

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Francisca (Switzerland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Garlic Book: Nature's Powerful Healer (Paperback)

One thing I liked about this book, it tells you a lot about garlic which is what I was looking for but it doesn't waste a lot of pages with all kinds of garlic recipes. Not that I mind if an author comes up with some unusual recipes such as how to use the product in bigger quantities or recipes about less usual ingredients such in a book I have about bicarbonate of soda but still I have the idea that nowadays authors of health books fill pages with recipes you can find anywhere. I am sure everybody has recipes where garlic is used...... Like other modern authors he does repeat himself quite a bit but that is the modern way of writing. Another thing which puzzled me is that he tells you to substitute brown bread for white, for example, which to me meant that you should quit eating brown bread and start to eat white but I suppose that this is the American way of talking. Since I finished this book I have read another one written by an American author and I found the same kind of sentences. I suppose British people would say:" substitute white bread for brown". Well, I know what he means anyway.

I liked the fact that he makes the distinction between herbal teas and normal teas as most authors don't and one is left in doubt whether they mean one or the other or both. I found it also very useful to know that for garlic to work for your health you shouldn't cook it long, therefore it is better to add it when you are finishing cooking the dish. I was left with a doubt not only after reading this book but other books: some authors and doctors say vegetable oils are good for you, this one for example says no soybean or safflower oil, others say that coconut oil is good for you but again others say not! I wish experts would agree on this because it becomes very confusing. I even have a book where the author tells you first that safflower oil is not good for you only to say later than it is. Anyway, next winter I will be planting garlic in the garden now I know how to do it and we are now eating a lot more garlic too!