Garlic Benefits for Health

You certainly know what it is garlic, but do you know that garlic has some other benefits as a spice in cooking is also very useful for health.

* Gynecology chemical and chemical nature of Garlic

Garlic contains volatile oil, which is anti-bacterial and antiseptic. Gynecology aliin allicin and related anti-cholesterol power. This power to prevent coronary heart disease, high blood pressure and others. Stem tubers contain substances:
1. Calcium: is calm making it suitable as a prevention of hypertension.
2. Saltivine: could accelerate the growth of cells and tissues and stimulates nerve cell structure.
3. Diallysulfide, alilpropil-disulfide: anti-worm.
4. Sulfur
5. Protein
6. Fat
7. Phosphorus
8. Iron
9. Vitamin A, B1 and C.

Benefits of Garlic

Garlic can be used for alternative medicine as follows:

a. Garlic flu and cough.

Sulfur content contained in garlic smell and make it a distinctive taste that can enhance and accelerate activities in the mucous membrane of respiratory tract, which helps relieve compression and mucus. Raw garlic contains phytochemicals that can help kill bacteria and viruses that cause disease. In 1992, researchers from Brigham Young University in Utah reported that mashed garlic in oil to kill not only kill rhinivirus type 2 (umun causes flu), but also kill the 2 types of herpes (infectious skin disease) and some other common viruses.

How do I use it? Eat garlic as much as possible as soon as you feel sick or add garlic to the dish. You can also make a cough medicine with this recipe: Mash garlic and input into the cold milk in a saucepan, and heat about 1-2 minutes, and drink warm.

b. Garlic and Cholesterol

Now there are more than 12 studies published worldwide that ensure that the garlic in various forms can reduce cholesterol. Therefore, it can be concluded that garlic can cure high blood pressure, heart disease. One study published in "The Journal of The Royal College of Physicians" by Silagy and Neil HAW CS in 1994 mentioned that garlic is an agent for reducing fat. The author states that garlic supplements is an important part in healing high cholesterol. According to him, as a whole, a decrease occurred for 12% of the total cholesterol. This decrease occurred after 4 weeks of treatment.

c. Garlic and Cancer

Garlic also has content to fight cancer, particularly cancers of the stomach and intestines. Organosulfida contained in garlic help the liver to process toxic chemicals, including chemicals that cause cancer of some epidemiological studies show that people who consume lots of garlic, lower the risk of getting cancer of the stomach and intestines. To ensure that you get maximum results, researchers from Penn State Unipersity first recommended to allow onion slices or collision for at least 10 minutes, giving time onions were formed contents that help fight cancer.

d. Garlic and Pregnancy

Recent research shows that consuming garlic during pregnancy reduces the risk of pregnancy complication pre-eclampsia (high blood pressure protein in the urine). The studies also revealed that garlic also helps increase weight than babies who are too small. Research conducted by Dr. D. Sooranna, Ms. J. And Dr. Hirani. I Das in the Academic Department of Obsterrics and Gynecology, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London, UK. They concluded that although pre-eclampsia and growth retardation is a complex condition, consuming garlic tablets by default during pregnancy can reduce the possibilities of complications at birth. They focused on growth retardation in infants and pre-eclampsia, a very dangerous condition for mother and child that occurs in approximately one of ten pregnancies.

Experiments showed that adding extracts of garlic on plaasenta cells are likely to suffer these conditions proved to be stimulating growth. Furthermore, the activities of important enzymes are reduced in abnormal pregnancies is also greatly enhanced with garlic given.

e. As a Healer Hemorrhoid

First used to clean the anus and the surrounding area with warm water and soap, apply the juice / some garlic cloves that have been crushed as much as 3-5 times of the rectum which had been cleared, wait a few minutes and then wash.

f. Increase Stamina

Having examined in depth, it turns out garlic can be a source of physical strength and stamina high. Although before they are rarely sick, they are suddenly vulnerable to the flu, people - people like that that primarily requires stamina builder power contained in garlic. The people who tire easily should increase their stamina by eating a little garlic each day in a long time. Way, can we combine in our food processing and swallow.

g. Controlling the Symptoms of Diabetes

Diabetes mellitus is an inherited disease characterized by not enough insulin in the body, as a result of excess sugar in the blood and urine, and a great hunger and thirst. Sufferers always want to eat sweets, and although he likes to eat sweets and other food, body weight tended to decrease. The main symptoms, decrease in body resistance to germs and bacterial skin disorders and decreased sexual desire, and enteric diseases of blood vessels. The use of garlic in your diet wisely is one way to get the greatest benefit from the food you eat is thus contribute to a good body condition.


As a result of consuming too much garlic makes our breath to smell, to
eliminate we can do the following ways are :
1. Drinking strong tea or coffee after garlic consume
2. Eat the skin by chewing lime
3. Balance with food made from protein, liver, and eggs
4. Using garlic boiled way in advance or made pickles

In consuming garlic should not be eaten raw, because it can interfere with the stomach. Therefore it is recommended that first garlic boiled, fried, or grilled before eating. But garlic may not be used in any form when there is disease in the stomach and large intestine.

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