The benefits of eating garlic and honey in food and different combinations has long been documented in a variety of ways and their health-promoting properties detailed almost endlessly. But what is the best way to eat garlic and honey as part of your usual daily diet and what happens when you do, it has huge Healing properties. The garlic lowers blood pressure and cholesterol levels, prevents heart disease as well as it is a remedy for the common cold, flu, diarrhoea, insect bites and others.
Garlic and honey magic.
But is it true. Louis Pasteur confirmed the anti-bacterial properties of garlic in 1858. By 1500bc the Egyptians had identified no less than 22 different positive benefits of using garlic. Individual experience will prove hugely variable when it comes to bearing out the truth of claims regarding the healing and health properties of garlic; some will claim it is a ‘cure all’ others will say it makes no difference.
But there is a wealth of research and cummulative experience that bears out the super-health properties of garlic. The Maxdiaries's article promotes the use of garlic raw and goes on to suggest that using it in combination with honey has hugely beneficial effects upon health. The idea behind using it raw is that the heat used in cooking it affects and reduces the positive effects of allicin, a sulfur compound that is the active ingredient in garlic.
Crushing or chewing garlic produces allicin and this in turn produces other sulfur compounds such as ajoene, which is associated with anti-bacterial, anti-viral and anti-fungal benefits, and allyl sulfides which are considered important in reducing the risks of certain diseases. It is also full of vitamin C. Using garlic raw after crushing it increases the bioavailability of that all important allicin.