The Garlic; Natural Medicine Cure Disease
December 13th, 2009 | 
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The Liliaceae are monocots, cosmopolitan, comprising several thousand species.
Perennials usually a rhizome or bulb, especially in temperate countries (eg tulip, hyacinth, lily, onion, garlic, squill), they sometimes have a port of tree or vine in warm climates (eg : aloe vera, yucca, dragon).
The genus Allium includes several hundred species (eg leek, onion, spring onion) from the northern hemisphere.
Garlic is a perennial plant with small linear leaves and sheaths, probably originated in Siberia but cultivated from antiquity to the Middle East, Egypt, Greece and China. It adapts to all climates but provides the best crops in temperate countries. The bulb of garlic or garlic bulb is made up of many “bulbs” (or pods) joined together and surrounded by a whitish membrane.
This bulb has usually developed around a clove mother (or father) that has withered in the end of growth. Garlic is indeed reproduced very well vegetatively from a pod while it also has flowers, red or white, arranged in umbels and fully functional.
It is a very common plant food, a condiment marketed worldwide but also has pharmacological properties and therapeutic exciting.
Compoeition and Chemical Properties
The clove of garlic contains polysaccharide reserves (of fructans), amino acids, enzymes (aliinase, peroxidase), selenium and sulfur compounds mainly responsible for the majority of pharmacological properties.
In fresh garlic constituent sulfur is the main Aliine (no smell) but when garlic is crushed or bruised, there is liberation of an enzyme (the aliinase) which degrades Aliine; the final product this transformation is aliicine (strong smelling garlic) which is itself rapidly oxidized in air and becomes diallyl disulfide (the smell also marked) main constituent of the “essence of garlic.
The aliicine can also condense, we obtain secondary compounds, ajoene the pharmacologically less active. Cooking changing rapidly, within minutes, all the sulfur compounds in condensates cyclic (vinyldithiine) then it takes several hours at room temperature.
It is difficult to characterize the pharmacological action of each sulfur compound, is generally preferred to speak of properties of garlic without specifying the compounds in question (exceptions: aliicine, ajoene).
Through the digestive Aliine is rapidly absorbed (10 min) and excreted in 6 hours. The aliicine and condensation compounds are absorbed more slowly (1 / 2 H 2 H) and persist longer in tissues (2 to 4 days).
Garlic has properties shown:
* Anti-atherosclerotic, anti-hypertensive and anti-lipidémiante,
* Fibrinolytic and anti-platelet aggregation,
* Immunostimulant,
* Antibiotic
* Protect and apparently some of it gastrointestinal cancer.
Action on blood lipids, atherosclerosis, blood pressure.
In animal studies (studies on rats, chickens, rabbits) consumption of garlic is fall significantly in cholesterol and triglycerides.
In humans, although experimental protocols are sometimes criticized, there is usually a decrease of 9 to 12% of blood cholesterol after one month of treatment (600 to 900 mg of garlic powder standardized 1.3% Aliine per day) and especially after 4 months of regular use.
There is a favorable change in LDL compared to HDL (lipoproteins that carry cholesterol in the blood), with increased “good” lipoprotein (HDL) and decrease in others.
Alongside the atherosclerotic plaques seem to reduce the surface (10 to 20%) and thickness (3%). However the drop in cholesterol levels observed only in moderate hypercholesterolemia and not in cases of familial diseases or defects. The effect on blood pressure is low to moderate: 5 to 7% decline.
Fibrinolytic and anti-thrombotic
Several actions combine to improve blood circulation, reduce clot formation and development of atherosclerotic plaque. The induced platelet aggregation was significantly reduced (up to 30%) when cholesterol is normal or slightly increased (study 10 months). The effect plasma is rapid: there is 6 to 8 h after intake of 900mg of garlic powder (standardized to 1.3% of Aliine) improved plasma viscosity and capillary flow, it is quickly reduced the ‘aggregation of platelets and increased fibrinolysis (up to 70%) during a 12 of hours. All this is of course very interesting when there are problems due to atherosclerosis.
Action immunostimulatory
In vitro, the sulfur compounds of low molecular weight (Aliine and aliicine) increase phagocytic activity and cytotoxicity of “killer cells, NK cells and K.
There is a synergy with interleukin 2 (IL2).
Antibiotic action
The aliicine, very active molecule, has:
* Antimicrobial power of enterobacteria, staphylococci and some streptococoques but apparently not on Helicobacter pylori (responsible for many stomach ulcers)
* Power antiviral
* Power fairly strong antifungal against Candida albicans, Cryptococcus and Histoplasma. The ajoene are also antifungal.
Protection against malignant degeneration
Many studies (mostly North American) suggest that a diet rich in garlic is associated with a lower risk of occurrence of digestive cancer (stomach or colon). The observed effect is preventive rather than curative. Furthermore, garlic is rich in selenium, some farmers still increase that capacity by enriching the soil artificially selenium is known about the antioxidant power of this metalloid, some studies suggest it also helps prevent cancerous degeneration ( perhaps also through the antioxidant capacity).
Uses
We will evoke in this page uses the old.
The Egyptians advocated as the panacea use again by Galen, who called the “treacle peasants. All doctors of antiquity cited in ancient Greece was a symbol of physical strength.
For Chinese doctors, is a plant “hot”, “bitter” working on the meridians large intestine, spleen and stomach are the cons-tells the patient that the “yin” is deficient.
Garlic is known and recommended in traditional Arab medicine, Ayurvedic and recommended by all the European and U.S. pharmacopoeias. Not bad for a condiment so commonplace, cheap and easy to find.
The information derived from the pharmacological properties mentioned above:
* Prevention and “treatment” of atherosclerosis, hypercholesterolemia and moderate hypertension which is usually associated;
* Prevention of cardiovascular disease associated with this situation of multiple vascular
* Improved blood circulation and prevention of severe arteritic thrombosis (lower limbs, coronary) and minor circulatory disorders,
* “Disinfection” intestinal infections Minor: moderate enteritis, digestive disorders related to intestinal fermentation. Garlic reduces the proliferation of germs does it destroy them in case of acute infection it does not replace antibiotics major
* Skin fungus, or bacterial skin infections (garlic was used successfully during the Second World War by the Soviet army)
* Its action on intestinal worms (roundworms and pinworms) is controversial although classic, perhaps a repulsive effect than toxic? Children bear the consumption of raw garlic do not usually have intestinal parasites,
* Prevention of gastrointestinal cancers: stomach, colon,
* Some herbalists also recommend the infections of upper respiratory tract (in combination with other herbal or essential oil), sulfur compounds in garlic also in effect eliminated by respiration.
In external use
We have seen that the juice of garlic or crushed garlic and disinfectants were slightly antibiotics but there are other local uses. Garlic can help remove corns: application for two weeks of crushed garlic on the horn in protecting the surrounding normal skin by adhesive tape. Garlic oil relieves pain and inflammation ear and is useful for treating fungal skin infections including those of the feet and toes.
In internal use
You can of course use fresh garlic but also food garlic powder standardized distillate or gasoline garlic tincture to 1 / 5, maceration or oily garlic oil. According to prepare the chemical composition is different. Fresh garlic and garlic powder contain Aliine and aliicine. The oil of garlic and vinyldithiines ajoene, the essence of garlic, diallyl disulfide.
An average dose would be the equivalent of 6 to 10 mg per day is Aliine:
1 clove fresh garlic or 500 mg to 1 g garlic powder.
For a stronger effect can increase the dose by spreading it throughout the day is:
1 to 2 cloves garlic 3 times daily or 500mg (1 capsule) 3 to 5 times per day.
It is recommended that prolonged treatment or even unlimited low-dose or medium or high dose 1 to 2 months in the year renewed.
Some herbalists recommend the tincture of garlic 1 / 5, 20 to 30 drops per day, but the smell is particularly unpleasant.
Precautions
The raw garlic is not always well tolerated, attention to weak stomachs; cons by the capsules of garlic powder do not usually have digestive problems. It does not recommend taking garlic for insomniacs, the recent surgery and transplant because of effects on blood coagulation and immunostimulation.
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