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Qualities

* Antioxidant

* Antibiotic (most impressive in width spectrum antibacterial in state)

* Antiseptic

* Anti-carcinogen

* Antiviral

* Anti-fungal

* Lowers LDL "bad" cholesterol

* Lowers heartbeat and beat humor pressure

* Natural Mosquito repellent

Historical Precedence

* Mentioned in Sanskrit religious text from India geological dating concluded 5,000 age old

* Used by past Egyptians and Chinese as medicine

* Contained in Ancient Egyptian content that the slaves who worked on the pyramids would waste to toil if they were not specified a lead of alliaceous plant all day to eat

* Prescribed by Hippocrates, the begetter of present-day medicine, for complete 3,000 ailments

* Consumed by Romans to preserve them glowing on campaigns

* Used by the renowned 4 French thieves who robbed author during the Bubonic Plague. It is same that the thieves wet cloves of allium sativum in condiment and ate the cloves and drank the vinegar each day in command to exclude catching the "Black Death". Four Thieves Vinegar is nonmoving sold in France today

* Utilized by American military personnel in World War I as an bactericidal in the trenches when the equal medical science was depleted, near reportedly greater glory in conformation wounds rinse than the typical study issued antiseptic

* Contained as piece of Lance Armstrong's recipe for his repossession from cancer

Recent Buzz

* Study by the American Chemical Society (One out of 2,500 only just published)

* Best commercialism herb in the world

* Proliferation of Allicin (phytochemical in alliaceous plant) pills and separate garlic supplements

My popular uses

* Roasted garlic - although change of state garlic is brainwave to destroy a number of of the phytochemicals, it tastes so rotten good

* Sauteed garlic - once again loses quite a few upbeat benefits, but sometimes you gotta do it

* Raw allium sativum slices near herbaceous plant - who wants coffee? I assurance this will upshot you up, though you may not have masses friends if you don't clean your set...

* Crushed alliaceous plant in olive oil - the selected way to set in motion the phytochemical compounds time not harming the organic process geographical area (due to olive oil's gentle properties on the tum)

* Marinated in acetum - those four thieves were onto something, in good health but for the full-page thieving thing

Warnings for the overzealous

Yes, I know, you are amazed and can't delay to bite into a flower bud or two yourself. However, from experience, fulfil listen to my warnings.

First, ingestion a raw flower bud of alliaceous plant is will be raucous on the internal organ and should in all likelihood not be utilised for anything but amusement importance. You stipulation to cut it up so that you can handgrip the slighter quantities.

Second, you can have too overmuch of a slap-up point. Garlic's antibacterial properties can be recovered in slender quantities. The antibiotics will elapse finished the arrangement insincere in 15 minutes, so it seems suchlike less important doses throughout the day are finer than a ton of allium sativum all at quondam. Too by a long chalk at sometime will gravely madden your organic process protective cover and is not advisable.

Third, the allicin within garlic is a close to the unit but a bane to the bodily process. Common scholarship. However, did you cognize that it likewise seeps through your pores? Yes, that's letter-perfect ladies and gentlemen, if you eat a twosome of cloves of alliaceous plant or more, you and all of your friends will be noticing a choking scent every clip you pace by. Now I'm not spoken language that's bad. Just exceptional.

Well, that is in the order of all that I know. If someone else has any interesting facts, or belongings that I should include, email me. I would worship to cognise roughly it only for fun, nonetheless.