Garlic Benefits

Garlic is a very beneficial herb with irregular roots, condensed, flattened stem and narrow, flat leaves.The bulb consists of bulblets called cloves, enclosed in a thick whitish, glistening and transparent covering.Garlic is used widely in India and it is known as the home doctor here. It is commonly used as the best home remedies for some small health related problems.

Points to be noted:

• It's important to remember that the effect of garlic on cold and flu comes from Allicin and this can be obtained from crushed, raw garlic and is destroyed by over cooking.
• Garlic cloves cooked whole have very little medicinal value.
• Garlic with strong smell has more Sulphur in it, which is good enough for medicinal purpose.

Few facts about garlic :

1. Garlic helps to boost up our Metabolism rate. Thus help us to reduce our weight easily.
2. Garlic helps reduce Atherosclerotic buildup (Plaque) within the arterial system.
3. Garlic lowers or helps to regulate Blood Sugar.
4. Garlic helps to prevent blood clots from forming, thus reducing the possibility of Strokes.
5. Garlic helps to prevent Cancer, especially of the digestive system, prevent certain tumors from growing larger and reduces the size of certain tumors.
6. Garlic helps to remove heavy metals such as lead and mercury from the body.
7. Raw garlic is a proven natural antibiotic and, while far less strong than modern antibiotics, can still kill some strains of bacteria that have become immune or resistant to modern antibiotics.
8. Garlic dramatically reduces yeast infections in body parts.
9. It helps to make our immune system stronger against cancer, ulcers, hemorrhoids etc.

Role of Garlic (Lahsun) in Health and Beauty:

1. Garlic in useful in a variety of skin disorders. Pimples disappear without a scar when rubbed with raw garlic several times a day. Even very persistent forms of acne, in some adults, have been healed with garlic. The external use of garlic helps to clear the skin of spots pimples and boils.
2. Garlic is a useful remedy for the digestive system. Crushed cloves of garlic may be infused in water or milk and taken for all disorders of digestion. It has an antiseptic effect and is an excellent remedy for infectious diseases and inflammations of the stomach and intestine.
3. Garlic juice has beneficial effect on the entire system. The ethers in garlic juice are so potent and penetrating that they help dissolve accumulation of mucus in the sinus.
4. It has been used as an antiseptic in wounds and ulcerations with beneficial results. cavities, bronchial tubes and the lungs. They help in the expulsion of poisons from body through pores of the skin.
5. Studies found that garlic even offers protection against the influenza virus.
6. Garlic normalizes blood sugar as in diabetes mellitus.
7. Garlic can help in the normalization of body functions. This means that it can lower the blood pressure in high blood pressure sufferers and can increase it in cases of low blood pressure. The same appears to be true of different body functions not just blood pressure.
8. Garlic can stimulate your immune system. In one study, people who ate two to three heads of garlic a day for three weeks show significantly more activity in special white blood cells that fight tumors.
9. It may prevent heart attack. If a patient takes garlic after a heart attack, the cholesterol level comes down. Though the earlier damage may not be repaired, the chances of new attacks are reduced.
10. Garlic aids weak digestion because it stimulates the secretion of gastric juices.
11. It is also useful in treating various forms of diarrhea. One garlic capsule taken thrice a day is usually sufficient to correct mild cases of diarrhea of dysentery.