Pronounced: [guh-LANG-guhl], this very aromatic root is used to season stews, soups, rice, and curries.   Also used as an expectorant and carminative for sore throat, swellings, eye infections, and rheumatism.

Properties and Uses: Anthelmintic, antispasmodic, carminative, cholagogue, digestive, diuretic, expectorant, febrifuge.   Used for activating the digestive organs, for chronic stomach and intestinal catarrh, chronic bronchitis, to regulate the liver and gallbladder, to help intestinal infections such as dysentery, cholera, typhoid, paratyphoid fever, putrefaction in the intestines, to lower blood pressure and counteract arteriosclerosis, enhance blood circulation and heart function.   The cold extract (warmed to body temperature) is used as and enema to expel pinworms.   To temper the personal odor of garlic eat fresh parsley, or mix with garlic just before taking.   When garlic is used for hypertension it is said it will lower cholesterol and triglyceride levels and inhibit platelet aggregation, as well as act as an anti-microbial for harmful bacterial, virus, and parasitical invaders.

Used as a bitter tonic to improve overall health, and increase the appetite.   It increases digestive enzymes and stimulated bile excretion which increases assimilation of proteins and fats.   Also used for improving digestion, to strengthen the stomach, heartburn, indigestion, catarrhal gastritis, diarrhea, allay nausea and vomiting, to raise the white blood cell count, fainting, and as a wound wash.   This is said to be useful during chemotherapy.

Properties and Uses: Adjunvant, appetizer, carminative, diaphoretic, sialagogue, stimulant.   The tea or tincture is used to cleanse the entire body by causing perspiration, add to bath to detox.     It will also promote the menses, eases flatulent colic and is combined with laxative herbs to make them milder and more tasty, it will ease the effects of a cold if taken at the onset.   To soothe a sore throat, chew a piece of the root.   It is said to be a good herb to use to dispel nausea in morning and motion sickness.

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Properties and Uses:  Diuretic, astringent, tonic, and nervine used for diarrhea, diuretic, stimulant, dropsy, gravel, hematuria, gout and rheumatism.   It exerts special influence upon chronic renal and cystic troubles.   It is said to prevent formation of kidney stones and allows a free elimination of uric acid crystals, and also helps a sluggish prostate and cystitis with a mucus discharge. 

This is said to have a tonic effect on the lungs and kidneys, and is a stimulant expectorant to extricate obstinate mucus in the bronchial tubes and lungs.   It is said to be able to dilate bronchioles and thus relieve chest congestion.   Used externally as a lotion for poison ivy and skin rashes which is said to cool, soothe, and stop itching.