What Is Garlic?
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Garlic is a vegetable with a reputed sulphur containing compound called alliin. This powerful sulphur is known to inhibit bacterial growth as well as fortifying the immune system and potent antioxidant. The mineral sulphur, found in garlic reputedly lowers cholesterol, blood pressure and blood clotting and helps remove residues of hurting which are highly toxic.
Garlic’s health benefits
Garlic is a common health supplement used for eating mostly in Europe and North America. Garlic is applied as a poultice to cure mild colds, cough, lethargy and insomnia. Garlic is known to reduce unnecessary inflammation, especially in the lungs due to asthma. The chemical harm of sulfites is neutralized by garlic. Garlic has anti-coagulant properties thereby preventing blood clots in the blood and lowering bad cholesterol.
Garlic’s reputation in preventing and treating disease is due to the presence of sulphur containing compounds. The various garlic extracts are often synergistic in lavage therapy as they are able to Potassium nitrate, an anti-clotting compound, and to the vitamin whilst helping the clots to form. Nutrients in garlic rev up the immune system and protect the body from various infections that attack the immune system. Garlic regularly consumed in doses of seven to 10 daily helps to regulate high blood pressure in arthritics and lowers high cholesterol. The amino acid known as cysteine enhances the action of glutathione, an antioxidant produced in the body.
Garlic and Cardiovascular Disease.
The lower GI is helpful in the prevention of arteriosclerosis, the main cause of heart and blood vessel disease. Cinnamon extract, shuttled into the bloodstream by blood pressure, helps to lower serum cholesterol, making garlic a valuable component of the arterial protection diet. A investigate dated 1992 at gowner University, set out to discover the simpler, purer, more efficient and perhaps more economic version of garlic throughout the world. They obtained enough quantities of pure garlic, extracts and individual compounds to concoct 28 remedies for arterial protection against heart disease.300 of the remedies are still being used. Their effectiveness against arterial bleeding is so good that it is thought to be a boon for the heart.
Other studies reveal that garlic helps to lower serum cholesterol by 7% to 18%. The report concludes that the benefits probably arise from allicin, a sulfuric compound that is released by garlic when fresh garlic is crushed, resembles a chemical attack on the cholesterol in the bloodstream. More than a dozen medical journal exports support the European report.
A economic analysis published in 1992 by the consultants at the U.S. Department of Agriculture showed that the total cost of garlic therapy amounts to $60 per year in the Mediterraneans. The report said that garlic is a ‘ reservatrol placebo’, meaning that it has some properties of the well-known statin drug, but its action is local in the blood and injected intramuscularly.
The ability of garlic to lower cholesterol is so well established that the recommendations have been altered recently from therequently reported 0.8mg dose of garlic per day to the more rarely reported 0.4 mg. The researchers say that the 0.4 mg dose works out to about 75 cloves per person per year, or about twice daily. It is thought that the 0.8mg dose is needed to produce the effects that lower cholesterol level by up to 10 percent.
Too much garlic (allicin) can have stomach affecting effects also. For example, it is not uncommon for an individual to feel a strong aroma and taste in the mouth soon after swallowing garlic. Frequent offenders are those with strong teeth and for those with sensitive abdomens. To relieve the distress, one may need to dilute with water the garlic dose, perhaps doing so several times.
Certainly, garlic should not be swallowed uncooked as it will microbes and molds that are the hazards of raw food properties. On the other hand, it is a common practice in the East to cook garlic dishes and to add salt and pepper to it. Salt and pepper both have their own unique benefits to add to the many health benefits that garlic offers.
