{"id":2448,"date":"2014-10-07T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=2448"},"modified":"2014-10-11T08:12:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T08:12:00","slug":"garlic-a-wonder-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/garlic-a-wonder-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Garlic &#8211; a wonder food."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Garlic! The French love it.\u00a0 The Koreans love it.\u00a0 We love it.<\/p>\n<p>Strong and crunchy raw, or soft and sweet when cooked.\u00a0 Or crushed into a paste with sea salt to be added to anything.\u00a0\u00a0 Tasty? Yes!\u00a0 And also invaluable as a remedy for common ailments as its antiseptic properties can purge your body and help you sleep.\u00a0 As the cold season gets going in the northern hemisphere, have a crushed clove of garlic with a spoon of honey and a squeeze of lemon in a cup of hot water before bed and you&#8217;ll wake up feeling better, sooner.<\/p>\n<p>And it looks like garlic&#8217;s wondrous properties can also help fix trees.\u00a0 It is being injected in to old trees to save them from disease.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not a sustainable remedy as better woodland management is.\u00a0 But it has special applications and endorses its therapeutic reputation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-header\">BBC: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-29522647\">Garlic injection could tackle tree diseases<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garlic! The French love it.\u00a0 The Koreans love it.\u00a0 We love it. Strong and crunchy raw, or soft and sweet when cooked.\u00a0 Or crushed into a paste with sea salt to be added to anything.\u00a0\u00a0 Tasty? Yes!\u00a0 And also invaluable as a remedy for common ailments as its antiseptic properties can purge your body and &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/garlic-a-wonder-food\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Garlic &#8211; a wonder food.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-Du","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2449,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions\/2449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}