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Garlic - Side Effects and Health Benefits

Botanical Name: Allium sativum.

Other Common Names of Garlic:
Garlick, Knoblauch, Ajo, Ail, Aglio, Thum, Suen Tau, Suan, Knoflook, Sir, Garleag, Shum, Lasun, Ninniku, Alho, Chesnok, Bawang, Poondoo, Gratiem, Katiem, Sarmisak, Lehsun, Toi.

Habitat:
Garlic is a member of the same group of plants as the Onion. The plant has been cultivated for so many thousands of years that much of its origins have become lost. There has been some suggestion that it was first indigenous to the southwest of Siberia. From there, it spread to southern Europe and then to the rest of the world.

Description:
The leaves are long, narrow and flat. The bulb is of a compound nature, consisting of numerous bulblets, known technically as 'cloves,' grouped together between the membranous scales and enclosed within a whitish skin, which holds them as in a sac. The rather whitish flowers grow at the end of a stalk rising direct from the bulb.

Plant Parts Used:
Bulb.

Garlic
Garlic (Allium sativum)
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Attribution:H. Zell

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Therapeutic Benefits & Uses of Garlic and Claims

  • Garlic’s history as a medicinal herb tracks back to the Greeks and Romans.
  • Garlic has been used historically as an herbal antiseptic. It was used to help prevent conditions such as gangrene in wounds. The raw juice was expressed, diluted with water, and put on swabs of sterilized Sphagnum moss, which was applied to wounds to prevented septic results.
  • The Medicinal Herb Garlic
    Garlic (Allium sativum)
    William Woodville,
    Medical Botany, 1793.
  • Garlic has been used for a long time to prevent and treat all kinds of health problems including colds, flu, menstrual pain, Crohn’s disease, sinusitis, gastrointestinal problems, fungal infections such as athlete’s foot, warts and atherosclerosis to name a few.
  • It has been used as herbal remedy for bronchitis, whooping cough, coughs, hoarseness and difficulty of breathing and other disorders of the lungs, including asthma.
  • There are suggestions that garlic may be helpful as an herbal cancer remedy by reducing the size of cancerous tumors and that it can help prevent certain cancers that attack the intestines, such as colon cancer.
  • Garlic is used to naturally improve the immune system and is also supposed to be an excellent herbal antioxidant hence its popularity as an anti aging herb.
  • The most research which has been done on its potential has been in the area of reducing heart disease. Garlic is a great herb for lowering cholesterol, and numerous large studies have shown that taking supplements that mimic fresh garlic can significantly lower LDL cholesterol levels without hurting beneficial HDL cholesterol levels. Garlic appears to act by blocking the liver from making too much LDL cholesterol.
  • There is also some suggestion that garlic may prove to be mildly effective as a medicinal herb for lowering blood pressure by dilating or expanding blood vessels. Researchers are finding that it can help to prevent blood clots and therefore reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke.

Dosage and Administration

As a supplement garlic is most commonly taken daily in capsule form containing between 1000 and 3000 mg.
0.03 to 0.12 mL of garlic oil can be taken three times a day.
Garlic Juice, 10 to 30 drops or as specified by manufacturer

Potential Side Effects of Garlic

There are some herbalists who do not promote the use of garlic in capsule or tablet form. They believed that the full effect of garlic is best achieved by working with the whole clove.

Garlic supplements are said to have no side effects other than the strong odor.

The combination of using garlic and warfarin may result in a greater risk of bleeding. Large doses of garlic should not be ingested when using warfarin, indomethacin, dipyridamole, aspirin, or other medications that thin the blood.








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