Garlic Health Benefits, Tips, and Tricks

• Garlic might help prevent hair loss! Massage garlic oil into scalp.
• Garlic is definitely a low calorie food with 4 calories per clove.
• If you put a slice of garlic over a splinter and cover it with a bandage, it will help the skin push it out.
• Garlic has its own day of recognition! April 19 is National Garlic Day.
• Garlic is rumored to ward off mosquitoes and other vampires.
• Garlic helps babies gain weight while they are in the womb.
• Rub garlic on a cold sore to get rid of it.
• Put a slice on a skin tag and cover with a Band-Aid to get rid of it.
• Garlic is high in iodine – good for the thyroid.
• Garlic is high in vitamin C.
• Garlic doesn't need to be refrigerated.
• Avoid CHINESE GARLIC!
• Garlic helps to regulate blood sugar.
• There are 300 varieties of garlic grown worldwide.
• Garlic has been grown for more than 5000 years.
• To quickly peel an entire head of garlic, put it in a jar and shake until the cloves come loose and the skin comes off.
• Grow a new bulb from any clove that sprouts.

Garlic is my go-to herb for many ailments, and I eat it every single day. I put it in my salads and in the foods I cook. I eat it raw and cooked, but more often raw. I use it to reset my gut flora (click to read more), I use it to detoxify my body, and I use it to make food taste better, but it does so much more.