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Herbal Secrets from the Green Witch of NY

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Simple Garlic Honey

Fresh, peeled, whole garlic cloves

Honey

Fill a clean, wide-mouthed jar about 1/4--1/2 full of garlic cloves, depending on how strong you want it to be. If you want your garlic honey to be even stronger, chop the garlic cloves finely or use a garlic press.

Cover the garlic with the best-quality honey you can afford, pouring it slowly until you've filled the jar to the top. Poke with a chopstick or sturdy twig to release as many gas bubbles as you can from this sulphur-rich preparation.

Place your garlic honey jar on a saucer. The mix will bubble out of your jar no matter how many gas bubbles you remove, and no matter how wellcapped your jar is!

This homemade medicine is powerfully preventative of respiratory ailments. When you feel vulnerable to a cold or flu, take a teaspoon of the infused garlic honey 1--2 times daily as a preventative tonic. Something I've heard numerous times from grateful people I taught about garlic honey is, "Everyone in my office/home got this bug but me!" Another nice way to use it is as an ingredient in sauce for baking chicken or vegetables. It won't be quite as antimicrobial cooked, but it is still great preventative medicine. You can also eat the cloves, whether you put them in the honey whole or minced. (If you leave them in there long enough--maybe a year or more--they will liquefy and the entire preparation becomes really pungent.)

If you are sick, garlic honey can be taken throughout the day. It can be taken straight, by the teaspoon, or mixed into hot water, tea, or anything you want. Whew--strong stuff! For babies, use smaller doses. For infants under one year, conventional Western wisdom warns us not to use honey at all.

I've observed that people who don't like this blend when they are feeling well will actually crave it when they are ill. This is true of many of the strongest, most "medicinal-tasting" herbal teas as well.

Please note that garlic-infused honey is not the appropriate garlic preparation to use for parasites such as worms, because parasites are generally nourished and energized by sugars.

Deluxe Garlic Honey

Fresh, peeled, whole garlic cloves

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Meryl Ann Butler is an artist, author, educator and OpedNews Managing Editor who has been actively engaged in utilizing the arts as stepping-stones toward joy-filled wellbeing since she was a hippie. She began writing for OpEdNews in Feb, 2004. She became a Senior Editor in August 2012 and Managing Editor in January, (more...)
 

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