Health - GARLIC (Allium Sativum, Lahsun)

It is an erect biennial herb and belongs to onion family, each bulb containing 6-30 shallots (also called ‘claves’) which are enclosed in a transparent, whitish, and thick and glistering covering. It has been in use in medicines, food preparations; in oil form since 4500B.C. Hippocrates strongly recommended its use in intestinal uses and therapeutic ingredients. It is grown almost all over the world.

It has volatile oil, (0.06 %) mucilage (35%), starch and albumen. In addition, it has carbohydrates 29%, Fat 0.1%, Protein 6.3%, Lime 0.03%, Mineral Salts 1%, Phosphorus 0.031%, Iron 13%, sufficient quantity of vitamins A, B and C, sugar, minerals (like manganese, albumin, lead, copper and chlorine).

Oil of garlic is obtained by distillation and is replete with various compounds of sulphur etc. Its colour is yellow or dark brown, odour repulsive, and taste pungent but possess numerous medicinal properties. In food and medicines its peeled cloves are used.

Therapeutic uses

Garlic is one of the mostly used vegetations in medicines and its curative properties include cure of Fevers, Leprosy, Asthma, Arteriosclerosis, High Blood Pressure, deafness. It is also used as a heart tonic, to expel intestinal worms, piles, cough and asthma, catarrhal disorders, T.B., bronchitis, paralysis, sore throat, rheumatism, cancer, skin and blood disorders, whooping cough, to heal ulcers and wounds, diphtheria etc. In addition, it is used as an aphrodisiac.

It should be used carefully by those who have bilious tendency, whose liver is damaged or hypersensitive, whose skin is sensitive and digestive system is depraved, who get urticaria or any other skin eruption.
Some people do not use it due to its bad odour and pungent taste, though all of them are fully convinced of its food values and medicinal efficiency.

Asthma

Peel a pod of garlic, crush and boil the same is 125 ml of pure malt-vinegar which should be strained after cooling, adding equal quantity of honey, for being preserved in a bottle. To hasten quicker recovery, add decoction of fenugreek to 1-2 TSP of syrup (which is a single does) which should be taken in the evening and at night retiring to bed. It will reduce severity of asthmatic attacks.

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