What are the health benefits of garlic?

Garlic (Allium sativum) is cherished worldwide as part of a healthy duet, not only because of it savory characteristics but also for is perceived medical properties. Fresh garlic cloves contain moisture 63%, protein 6%, fat 0.1%, mineral matter 1%, fiber 1% and carbohydrate 29%, with vitamin, iron, sodium and potassium. Garlic contains 0.1-0.4% nonvolatile oil, alliin, enzymes, ajoenes, mineral and proteins.

Garlic’s many health benefits, as confirmed by scientific studies, are of the three types: they help to treat infection, they protect circulation and they fight various types of toxin.

Garlic has a variety of potent sulphur containing compounds which are the reason for its characteristic pungent odor. Allicin, the vital compound among them, is known to have great anti-bacterial, anti-viral, anti-fungal and anti-oxidant properties.

Garlic reduces blood cholesterol levels, thus cutting the risk of heart attack. Researchers at Pennsylvania State University’s College of Health and Human Development found in laboratory tests that garlic ‘inhibited fatty acid synthesis in liver cells by up to 64 percent and suppressed cholesterol synthesis by 87 percent’.

Garlic also helps sin blood thinning. The anti-clotting properties of ajoene found in garlic help in preventing the formation of blood clots in the body.
What are the health benefits of garlic?

Garlic and Health Benefits

Garlic and Health Benefits
The garlic juice is almost impossibly to drink though, resulting in sweating and an immune system response directed at live garlic cells in the juice.

What is happening is that the live garlic is very strong so the body has a battle digesting the fresh garlic juice. Even so, this has a net positive effect if one can endure it.

Digesting cleansing does involve frequent and less than solid bowel movements, plus bloating.

Bloating is often part of the healing process as the immune system goes to work. It does take months to repair decades of poor diet and less than optimum health.

Understanding that this is a necessary part of the healing process prevents people from giving up and not recognizing progress.

A flat stomach and an ability consume cleansing vegetables plus energized water without any result other than great health and vitality, is the end goal.

Anyone who looks old has a digestive system that needs major repair. Every part of the body regenerates and is capable of healing over time. The digestive system cells, especially the inner wall of the digestive track, regenerate most frequently.

Other than that, garlic acts well against cataract, particularly in smokers and for colds. Like onion juice, one dessertspoonful of garlic in half a pint of warm water is a recognized remedy for worms in children.

One suspects that children in Mediterranean countries must be well protected against worms, and statistics show that their parents have a lower incidence of heart disease than most Europeans, all of which helps to confirm the therapeutic value of this bulb.

Garlic juice has been used beneficially for many conditions including tuberculosis, entercolitis and amoebic dysentery. It is an expectorant as well as assisting asthma and bronchitis.
Garlic and Health Benefits