Garlic Benefits

Garlic is truly one of nature's miracle plants. It is now one of the leading over the counter drugs in many European and Asian countries. Garlic is actually an official drug that is prescribed in many countries for a host of diseases including cancer, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and for its anti-viral, anti-bacterial, and anti-fungal properties.

Garlic and its benefits
Being brought up in a typical chinese family, the garlic flavoring has always been a must in every meal. And because I eat garlic so often, that it is about time that I learn about this wonderful food and what it is that I have subjected my body through all these years. Garlic not only tastes wonderful, it is supposed to be very good for your body.

For generation, people are not only using garlic because of its medicinal value, but traditionally, people have rubbed their bodies with it, buried it besides their bodies in coffin, worn it around their necks, draped it on household walls and even prayed to it.

One of the most common ailments garlic is used as home treatment has been touted to treat is the cold. Upon the beginning of the sniffles, many people testify that consuming a clove or more of raw garlic takes them away. Researches have shown that garlic extract improves immune function, giving our natural defense system a enhancement, and helping it conserve our levels of anti-oxidants in our system.

With all these almost magical properties, garlic is still used successfully for some kinds of meningitis, throat infections, bronchitis and other coughs, yeast infections in vaginal and foot fungi. Garlic is very useful in the treatment of Influenza, Bladder infections and almost any infection where you usually receive antibiotic from your doctor.

The health benefits and medicinal properties of garlic been known for at least 3,000 years. It has the reputation of being very effective in ridding the body of everything from the common cold to the flu. It has always been used extensively in herbal medicine, but only recently has garlic benefits been acknowledged by modern science.

Garlic has been shown to inhibit cholesterol formation and inhibit platelets from sticking together making it a viable option to aspirin. Many papers have been published on the antibacterial and antifungal properties of garlic.