Garlic as penicillin in 10 minutes (recipe for medicine or cooking)
Sprouted garlic has added bioavailable nutrients!
Updated August 13, 2024.
This is one of those things that I’ve been meaning to write about for a long time, partly because it permeates all my recipes that use garlic and partly because it’s just plain good stuff to know.
Garlic has secret chemicals that when “activated” by crushing or finely mincing that create an antibiotic that rivals penicillin. This is not new knowledge, but as science advances, it becomes easier to explain in scientific terms.
If you are using garlic in any recipe, or as medicine, all you have to do is crush it, or mince it, or even finely slice it 10 minutes before you are going to use it. That is how long it takes the chemicals to create its antibacterial properties. Of course it is more potent raw, but even as cooked, it retains quite a bit of their antibacterial energy. (with no side effects).
Garlic has many active antimicrobial components, butallicin is the most researched. Allicin originates from the sulfur-containing amino acid alliin in a conversion facilitated by the enzyme alliinase. Alliin and alliinase are contained in separate compartments of the garlic clove. When garlic is crushed, the 2 ingredients come together to generate allicin, a highly volatile compound that provides the lovely smell of fresh garlic.
an excerpt from the American Society for Microbiology
Steps to “Activate” garlic making a penicillin-like antibiotic
Serving of minced garlic as anti-biotic
Take 2 normal cloves of garlic (or the amount you are using in a recipe) 2 Cloves = one dose penicillin, more or less.
Cut the hard ends off
Crush the with the flat size of a knife and your fist or other tool
Mince or press
Set aside for 10 minutes
Use in recipe OR take as medicine. There are some cool ways to take the garlic, like warming it in some honey, or mixing it with Ghee or non animal fat vegan fat like olive oil or coconut oil, etc. A fat helps calm its acidity in your gut.
Popular recipes that use raw, and now activated, garlic include hummus and salad dressings. Please search my recipes for some examples.
Please note: Using garlic as an antibiotic depends on your own body’s sensitivity to it. Expect it may take a bit longer and try using one activated clove 3x a day vs eating too much all at once. There is no exact science on the amount as there is no way to know the freshness, potency, size and other issues. Please use your inner guidance and consult a personal health professional for more advice.
From an instagram post, thought this would be good to add to my post…
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You can use garlic to treat minor wounds as well. For the record, during WW1, crushed garlic was used to treat flesh wounds.