Use of Garlic

Garlic

Garlic is a popular spice commonly found in the homes of Asia and Latin Americans; this essential spice serves as preventive remedy for diseases, thus garlic over the years has been popular all over the world.

Benefits of Garlic

Garlic bulbs, the part of the plant used in cooking and medicinally, contain an amino acid called allinin and an enzyme called allinase. The two components will mix together when you crush, bite, chop, or break up a clove of garlic to form "allicinin." This allicinin is the sulfurous-smelling compound that provides most of garlic's benefits. Because garlic is also rich in antioxidants, experts believe it helps destroy harmful free radicals in your body.

Most of the studies that have been conducted on garlic and its benefits have focused on either aged garlic extract, or AGE, or enteric coated garlic tablets or pills, popular because most people feel they offer fewer odors than fresh garlic.

Garlic and the Blood Vessels

According to the National Institute of Health (NIH) studies found out that garlic if eaten or taken in form of pills could possibly effective for treating high blood pressure and arthrosclerosis, thus help lower the risk or prevention of cardiovascular disease. People with high blood pressure who used garlic reported a 7- to 8-percent decrease in their blood pressure in studies, NIH reports. Garlic also seems to reduce the inflexibility of the vessels that causes atherosclerosis.

Other Uses for Garlic

Garlic is said to have antibacterial properties that make it useful in treating fungal infection such as athelete's foot, Ringworm, vaginal yeast infection and jock itch. Garlic intake has also shown to reduce numbers of tick bites and also to be effective at reducing the duration and severity of the common cold and in providing an immune system boost that may help to fight cancer. Garlic also may play a part in decreasing the side effects of chemotherapy in some cancer patients.

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