PURUNVAR THATLOHNA

Purunvar (GarlicAllium sativum; Porrum sativum)
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Garlicis a bulbous herb of the lily family, and it is hot and dry in the fourth degree.Garlicintensifies body heat and dryness, and it can be eaten raw,cooked, grilled, or roasted. Eating garlic is beneficial for sufferers fromcold symptoms. Garlic helps preventhemiplegiaand palsy for someone who is about to be visited with such illness.Eating garlic dries up semen, opens obstructions,assuage thirst, dissolves wind, aids excretion of urine turagogue), promotesbowel movement, relieves cold pains, and acts as the antidote for all kinds of bitesand cold sores. A plaster of garlic is beneficial for snakebite, scorpion stings, and bee stings, and helps to draw out their poison. Garlic also increases the body’s natural temperature, cuts phlegm, reduces abdominal bloating, clears the throat, and is more hygienic. Eating garlic also helps flush body-water, and aids chronic cough. Garlic also helpschest pain affected bycold symptoms, and it removesmucus from the throat.Daubing a decayingtoothwith an ointment made of crushed garlic,apple cider vinegar, salt, andhoneyeases its disintegration, and breaks it intofragments. Placing such ointment on an aching tooth also will relieve pain.

Crushing eight grams of garlic and drinking it with sweetened water clears phlegm from the throat and expels worms and otherparasitesfrom the intestinal tract. Spreading a mixture of crushed garlic and honey over herpetic eruptions accelerates their cure.However, excessive eating of garlic can also causeheadache,damagethe brain, weakenthe vision,weaken sexual desire, dry up semen, arouse thirst, precipitate discharge of yellow bile, and generatebad breath, while chewingrue leavesafter eating garlic eliminates such foul breath.