MEDICINAL VALUE OF GARLIC

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22004, 30 January 1937, Page 18

MEDICINAL VALUE OF GARLIC

TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESS. Sir, —“Prepared,” in “The Press” this morning, is giving a secret of health to the people. Many persons whose diets I have corrected know how I insist on garlic as an ingredient of green salads. I have been growing it for y ears and giving it to those who wish to improve their health. There are 16 chemical elements which enter into the composition of the body. Garlic contains two of the most potent. I maintain that they are two of the much lauded vitamins. The value of garlic is amply confirmed by the Bible. In Numbers 11, C. 11., V. 4 and 5, we read; “And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a-lusting, and the children of Israel also wept again and said: ‘Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember tmi fish which we did eat in Egypt freely, the cucumbers and the melons, and the leeks and the onions, and the garlick.’ ” In Leviticus we read of the physical laws given to evolving man by Moses. Diet plays the most important part. But in the New Testament, the Nazarene gave purely mental laws to a more evolved man. telling how to control the body by the mind. He received the treatment that all receive who come forward to teaen truth. Man is loath to give up his animal desires, and gluttony is one of the most devastating to the body.

Many scientific men to-day are telling of the results obtained by right feeding, but the knowledge is not taken advantage of by those who'have the health of the peonle in their hands. We have become a flesh-eating people, to the exclusion of the valuable fruits of the earth

When medical science gets a little more knowledge of the poisons which result from the faulty metabolism of animal protein, then the secret of so many diseases of' our so-called civilisation will be revealed. —Yours, etc., M. G. DAVIES. January 29, 1937.