Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Garlic

The garlic, a garden vegetable of the onion family,has been cultivated from time immemorial. It has been variously described as a food, a herb, a medicinal plant, an antiseptic and a magical antidote to evil by various people at different times throughout the ages. It is an important condiment crop. Garlic is one of the nature's strongest, antibacterial foods. Testes show that garlic kills or cripples at least 72 infection bacteria that spread diarrhoea, dysentery, tuberculosis and encephalitis, among other diseases.

Infections like cholera, typhoid and dysentery caused by organisms can readily become resistant to antibiotic therapy. They are all life threatening and are still endemic in many countries today. Garlic is one of the most efficient and effective remedies for these disorders. Its action has been confirmed against the specific classes of bacteria responsible for these diseases in laboratory test.