Health Benefits of Garlic

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Garlic is one of the most essential & integral part of cooking especially in India, because of it's strong aroma and immense flavour that it offers.

Besides it's smell and flavour, it is also surprisingly beneficial from health point of view.

It's very important to note here that it's sulphur compounds are responsible for most of it's medicinal properties, are very unstable, hence most of it's benefits can only be reaped in fresh garlic just after it is crushed or cut.

:•: Benefits :-------

✓Garlic balances cholesterol level, which is the major cause of various heart diseases.

✓It is anti-bacterial and anti-parasitic :

              • many studies suggest that diluted 

                 garlic extract relieves children from 

                 worms in stomach.

              • a little garlic-based mouthwash 

                 (though it won't bless you with fresh 
                   breathe) can get you rid of cavity-
                  causing bacteria.

✓It works miraculously for stomach & digestion related ills (my mother is the live 
                                        proof)
               • enhances immunity, hence helps in
                  combating daily colds and flu.
               • helps in relieving piles pain.
               • proper and easy morning rituals 
                  and proper motion.

✓An eminent blood purifier.

✓It maintains blood pressure.

✓Improves bone health (again, my mother saw these changes in herself and and it helped in reducing her knees joint's pains).

✓Easy remedy for skin and hair.
                 • it slows down the detriments of
                   collagen which results in the loss of
                   shine & lustre in aging skin.
                 • just massage a little bit of crushed
                   garlic on your scalp is known to help
                   in hair loss ( just like onion do ).

:•: Some precautions to be taken care of------

* It must be consumed on the time when cut/ 

   crushed.

* It's pieces are not to be chewed, they must be

   swallowed, otherwise may induce foul smell 

   from mouth.

* Garlic pieces works best when eaten with an 

   stomach in the morning.

* " Too much of anything is bad ", do not 

   consume more than 2-3 cloves a day without 

   consulting your doctor.

* Asthma patients should avoid garlic because 

   it may show some side-effects.