Grandma's home remedies or medicines from the pharmacy - which helps better? Many people swear by home-made remedies from their own kitchen - such as garlic milk.
I beg your pardon? Garlic milk? No, you're certainly not the only one who hasn't heard of it. But it's true: a drink made of garlic and milk used to be a popular home remedy to get rid of numerous diseases and aches.
How to make garlic milk?
- The recipe for garlic milk is as simple as it is ingenious: you simmer the garlic in milk. To a glass of milk (about 200 ml), add 4 cloves of garlic. Simply chop them or press them through a garlic press and let them get hot together with the milk and simmer for a short time.
- Then the garlic milk is drunk warm. If you are disgusted by the garlic pieces, you can pour the liquid through a sieve or a filter beforehand. If you want to sweeten the taste a bit, you can stir in honey.
What does garlic milk help against?
Garlic milk is said to have numerous healing properties. It is mainly drunk as a home remedy for back or sciatic pain (even one glass a day is said to help).
Other ailments for which garlic milk is said to help are dry cough, insomnia, colds, jaundice, and intestinal problems.