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Cooking with garlic is good for the heart
Readily available and inexpensive garlic is of great interest in cardiovascular disease. Along with the onion, another related member of the Allium genus, garlic helps to lower hypertension, serum triglyceride and cholesterol levels. Both garlic and onions help thin the blood by discouraging platelets from sticking together.
One notable constituent of garlic is allicin, one of the most impressive broad-spectrum antimicrobial substances in nature. Although this compound receives the lions' share of attention from the public, it is only part garlic's complex healing abilities. Over 30 medicinal compounds have been identified in garlic.
The penetrating odor is so diffusive that if a bulb is applied to the soles of the feet, the breath will smell of it. Garlic oil or the juice of garlic has a significant protective quality to cells which help to reduce fatty deposits.
Garlic increases the potency of preparations of the herb coleus (forskolin); helps nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as indomethacin (Indocin) provide greater pain relief; and boosts the infection-fighting capacity of many antibiotics, especially amphotericin (Amphocin). Prescription for Herbal Healing (2002) Phyllis A. Balch
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| Can cause a skin rash in sensitive people. Over consumption can cause heartburn and gas. Moderation is the key here. |
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Preparation Methods :Garlic can and should be used liberally in food, either powdered or freshly chopped. Garic infused oils can be used topically.
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Garlic for :Hypertension, blood circulation |
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For those involved in pressures and anxieties of economic survival, it is comforting to know that the readily available and inexpensive garlic helps to lower hypertension, equalizes blood circulation, and is active against tumor formation. It is useful in such diverse conditions as athlete's foot, diabetes, rheumatism, sciatica, and pimples. Adele Dawson, Herbs: Partners in Life (2000) |
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Garlic for :Immune System, Antibacterial |
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Garlic formed the principal ingredient in the 'Four Thieves Vinegar,' which originated, it is said, with four thieves who confessed, that whilst protected by the liberal use of aromatic vinegar during the plague, they plundered the dead bodies of its victims with complete security. Maud Grieve, Modern Herbal Vol 1 (1931) |
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Garlic for :Homemade insecticide |
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Crushed garlic is a good addition to any homemade insecticide spray. Garlic cloves, placed in the ground around plants will deter slugs. Garlic is a natural pesticide against mosquito larvae. |
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Garlic for :Stop smoking |
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Garlic helps counteract the addictive properties of nicotine and relaxes the blood vessels counteracting the effect of smoking on blood pressure. |
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Garlic for :Diabetes |
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Garlic can lower blood-sugar levels in people with diabetes. It ties up chemical receptors that otherwise would deactivate insulin, the hormone that controls sugar usage, and also stimulates the pancreas to secrete insulin. It does this without stimulating weight gain, a common side effect of many diabetes medications. Phyllis A. Balch, Prescription for Herbal Healing (2002) |
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Related Species
Leeks, Allium ampeloprasum var. porrum (L.) This onion like plant a tender tender core may be eaten in soups and salads. |
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Allium sativum, Alliaceae, Garlic, bulbil
Garlic is a member of the Allium genus, a branch of the lily family that also includes hundreds of varies of onions, leeks, chives, and shallots. The differences between garlic and onions is in the bulbs and leaves. While garlic produces heads that a divided into sections,(cloves), onions produce a single multilayer globe. Garlic leaves are flat and almost grass-like, while onions tend to be hollow and erect. Shallots fall somewhere in between.
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 The common garlic, a member of the same family as the onion, is of such a antiquity as a cultivated plant, that it is difficult with any certainty to trace the country of its origin. Garlic is mentioned in several Old English vocabularies of plants from the tenth to fifteenth centuries, and is described by the herbalists of the sixteenth century from Turner (1548) onwards. |
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 Mars owns this herb. This was anciently accounted the poor man's treacle, it being a remedy for all diseases and hurts (except those which itself breed.) It provokes urine, and women's courses, helps the biting of mad dogs and other venomous creatures, kills worms in children, cuts and voids tough phlegm, purges the head, helps the lethargy, is a good preservative against, and a remedy for any plague, sore, or foul ulcers Nicholas Culpeper |
 Garlic was placed by the Greeks on the piles of stones at cross-roads as a supper for Hecate, and according to Pliny, garlic and onion were invocated as deities by the Egyptians at the taking of oaths.
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 A clove or two of garlic, pounded with honey and taken two or three nights successively, is good in rheumatism | | To maximize the health benefits, you should crush the garlic at room temperature and allow it to sit for about 15 minutes. That triggers an enzyme reaction that boosts the healthy compounds in garlic.To preserve the antimicrobial activity of garlic mix into cooked foods at the last minute. | | Combining garlic with fish oil has been shown to increase the effectiveness of both in lowering LDL cholesterol and triglycerides. | | The inhibitory effects of curcumin, garlic squeeze, grapeseed extract, tea polyphenols, vitamin C, and vitamin E all help counteract the addictive properties of nicotine. Garlic also helps by relaxing the blood vessels counteracting the effect of smoking on blood pressure. |
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