“Mom, this remedy
sounds like an old wives fable, but you could try it.”
I was
speaking to my mother by phone in 1997 from our large library, reading to her
from an herbal book, Miracle Medicine
Herbs by Richard Lucas, which described a weird-sounding poultice that was
supposed to help lung function.
My mother was
in Florida, caring for her father, my dearly-loved grandfather.
He had
pneumonia, and his lungs were 80% full of fluid. He was 86.
My grandmother had unusually agreed to try the drugs a doctor suggested, and his lungs had gotten worse, not
better.
He was on
the verge of death.
“I will try
anything right now,” my mother said.
They put a
garlic poultice on my grandfather’s feet for three consecutive nights, and incredibly
all the lung fluid was GONE!
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In 2011 we
used this same unusual garlic poultice again, to help save my older sister’s
life.
My thumbs
became blistered and raw from peeling so many cloves of garlic, as I poulticed her
feet every night for five long weeks…but the fluid from a raging infection in
her body, caused by an enormous 35-pound ovarian tumor, receded.
She did
finally agree to have major surgery to remove the tumor, but her body was
strong and her liver was clean.
Her life was
spared.
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Once more, in 2015, I used a garlic poultice for someone very ill and finally diagnosed with five dental abscesses.
This garlic poultice helped bring the infections down, and they lived.
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You can laugh and scoff, but garlic can help save lives.
It works marvelously
and seemingly miraculously on the lungs through the soles of the feet.
The soles of our feet and palms of our hands contain electrical meridians connected to all parts of the body.
The soles of our feet and palms of our hands contain electrical meridians connected to all parts of the body.
And yes, this poultice does
smell “to high heaven”, but why care about the awful smell when people you love,
who are very sick, get better when they use garlic, internally and externally?
This is the home remedy I would use if I had a family member
or loved one in respiratory distress of any kind - asthma, chest colds, sinus issues, "Covid-19 corona virus", flu, pneumonia, coughs, etc.
This remedy may help
save someone’s life.
Disclaimer:
I am NOT a medical doctor, and therefore this is a SUGGESTION ONLY!
Also, I strongly suggest everyone CALM DOWN.
Fear affects the Immune System negatively!!
Guilt also depresses the immune system, so it is important to get your heart right with our Father in Heaven through our Advocate, Yeshua.
Our Creator knows just how long each one of us will live physically, and at some point we each must recognize He ultimately sustains our lives.
Also, I strongly suggest everyone CALM DOWN.
Fear affects the Immune System negatively!!
Guilt also depresses the immune system, so it is important to get your heart right with our Father in Heaven through our Advocate, Yeshua.
Our Creator knows just how long each one of us will live physically, and at some point we each must recognize He ultimately sustains our lives.
Very Simple Tools Needed:
1. Two Bulbs of Garlic – one for each
foot, per night
2. Olive Oil or other vegetable oil,
needed to oil each foot before the poultice is applied, so the garlic oil doesn’t
burn the skin.
3. Two White Cotton Handkerchiefs, or a piece of
white cotton sheet. Don’t use colored material, it has dyes.
4. One pair of white cotton socks, used
to cover the poultice and hold it on the foot overnight.
5. A cutting board, and a knife.
How to Assemble the Garlic Poultice:
Break the
garlic cloves off the bulb, press each clove firmly onto the cutting board with
the flat side of the knife to loosen the skin, and peel each clove.
Then thinly
slice each clove.
This takes only about 5-10 minutes.
This takes only about 5-10 minutes.
Place the
garlic slices in the middle of the cloth/handkerchief in the shape and size of
the bottom of the intended foot.
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| My apologies for the un-ironed and stained fabric, I couldn't find anything else to use and was trying to get this blog written! |
Fold up the
top and bottom of the cloth.
Fold the
sides, so you now have a “garlic burrito”.
OIL THE SOLES OF EACH
FOOT AND TOES THOROUGHLY with Olive Oil!
Don’t forget this step or the garlic oil can blister the skin.
I actually forgot this step for an hour or so, hence no oiling photo, and felt my foot heating up...so I just pulled off the entire thing, rubbed on some almond oil, and put it all back on. It wasn't a problem because I didn't leave it on all night.
Don’t forget this step or the garlic oil can blister the skin.
I actually forgot this step for an hour or so, hence no oiling photo, and felt my foot heating up...so I just pulled off the entire thing, rubbed on some almond oil, and put it all back on. It wasn't a problem because I didn't leave it on all night.
Then carefully flip the poultic over, and place the
THIN-fabric side of the “burrito” against the bottom of the foot.
You can use a thin strip of cloth to bind the poultice on, too, if you have one, as it helps hold the poultice in place.
Try to have the garlic all over the bottom of the foot and toes.
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| This poultice is too short for my very big foot - you actually want the length to match your foot size, so the toes also connect with the garlic. |
You can use a thin strip of cloth to bind the poultice on, too, if you have one, as it helps hold the poultice in place.
Try to have the garlic all over the bottom of the foot and toes.
Repeat these instructions for
the second foot.
Do this
nightly on each foot until labored breathing symptoms subside.
Soak and wash the poultice cloths and socks the next day, using them or another set of cloths and socks the next night.
If sick people are critical, I'd apply the poultice again in the morning, and keep it on 24-hours-a-day.
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Garlic is anti-viral,
anti-biotic, anti-fungal, and anti-parasitic. It is a natural diuretic and gives
you energy.
Ancient Greek wrestlers ate garlic before they wrestled.
In World War I, the Russian Army used garlic to treat wounded soldiers.
In World War I, the Russian Army used garlic to treat wounded soldiers.
If you or
someone you love has a lung infection, give this easy and inexpensive garlic poultice a try.
I have partial-Italian ancestry and try to grow a large 300-bulb bed of garlic annually.
Garlic is my main "go-to herbal remedy" when I am sick, because taking handfuls of minced garlic several times a day helped save my life when I was twenty-two years old.
I had nearly died from pancreatitis and my digestive organs shutting down due to several factors - among them overwork and inorganic chemical exposure.
Garlic is NOT a remedy for everyone, internally.
Some people despise garlic and their stomachs do not handle eating large quantities.
However, this garlic poultice used externally on the feet worked very well on my older sister, and she is one who does NOT do well taking garlic by mouth.
Garlic is helpful to have on-hand for illness situations like we are experiencing right now, worldwide.
May the people affected around the world by lung issues, the flu or pneumonia, have a complete and speedy recovery of their physical health.
Your friend
in health and healing, with love,
Elise
Now Thank We All Our God
1. Now thank we all our God
with heart and hands and voices,
who wondrous things has done,
in Whom this world rejoices;
who from our mothers' arms
has blessed us on our way
with countless gifts of love,
and still is ours today.
2. O may this bounteous God
through all our life be near us,
With ever joyful hearts
and blessed peace to cheer us,
And keep us in his grace,
and guide us when perplexed,
And free us from all ills
in this world and the next.
3. All praise and thanks to God
the Father now be given,
The Son and Him Who reigns,
who Them in highest heaven
The one eternal God,
whom earth and Heaven adore;
For thus it was, is now,
and shall be evermore.
~ Hymn text by Martin Rinckart, c. 1636
Translated from the German language by Catherine Winkworth
Martin Rinckart (1586-1649) was born in Eilenburg, Germany - a small city near Leipzig, which in the 20th century ended up behind the Iron Curtain in East Germany for several decades.
Rinckart studied for the Lutheran ministry, and was called to serve as pastor of the church at Eilenburg, his home town. He arrived there just before the beginning of the Thirty Years War, a war that devastated Germany in general and Eilenburg in particular. Being a walled city, Eilenburg became a place of refuge and soon became badly overcrowded, rendering it susceptible to disease. The plague of 1637 decimated the town, killing 8,000 people, including Rinckart’s wife. Rinckart often conducted forty or fifty funerals a day for plague victims.
It seems incongruous that a hymn like “Now Thank We All Our God” should come out of such circumstances. However, Rinckart wrote the first two stanzas, not as a hymn for public worship, but as a table grace for his family. At the end of the war, his hymn was sung to celebrate the signing of the Peace of Westphalia — the treaty that ended the war.
But we would know nothing of this hymn except for the good work of Catherine Winkworth, an English woman who translated many German hymns into English — this hymn and “Christ the Lord is Risen Today” being the best known."
— Copyright 2006, Richard Niell Donovan
Psalm 116
I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and
my supplications.
Because he hath inclined
his ear unto me,
therefore will I call
upon him as long as I live.
The sorrows of death
compassed me,
and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and
sorrow.
Then called I upon the
name of the Lord;
O Lord, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.
Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; yea, our God is
merciful.
The Lord preserveth the simple: I was
brought low, and he helped me.
Return unto thy rest, O
my soul;
for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with
thee.
For thou hast delivered
my soul from death,
mine eyes from tears,
and my feet from falling.
I will walk before
the Lord in the land of
the living.
I believed, therefore
have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:
I said in my haste, All
men are liars.
What shall I render unto
the Lord for all his
benefits toward me?
I will take the cup of
salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord.
I will pay my vows unto
the Lord now in the
presence of all his people.
Precious in the sight of
the Lord is the death of
his saints.
O Lord, truly I am thy servant; I am thy
servant,
and the son of thine
handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.
I will offer to thee the
sacrifice of thanksgiving,
and will call upon the name of the Lord.
I will pay my vows unto
the Lord now in the
presence of all his people.
In the courts of the Lord's house, in the midst of thee, O
Jerusalem.
Praise ye the Lord.
