Why Is Garlic So Useful To Your Health ?

Garlic is one of the most commonly used spices around the world. It is used to add flavor and aroma to dishes. Garlic (Allium sativum), is a bulbous perennial plant related to onions, chives, leeks and shallots. The bulb grows underground with long green shoots emerging above. It's bulb consist of small sections called cloves. In cold climates, cloves can be planted in the ground about six weeks before the soil freezes, and harvested in late spring.

Garlic has been helpful in many areas throughout the years. This herb is rich in allicin, selenium, manganese, vitamin B6, and vitamin C that help us to be healthier. Some scientist suggest using it as a food additive, can prevent food poisoning. Fresh garlic can kill bacteria: E-coli, Staphylococcus aureus and Salmonella enteritidis.

Here are some reasons why is garlic so useful :

1. Garlic is effective at protecting against mosquito bites. 
2. Garlic is rich on antioxidants, which can lower triglyceride levels.
3. Garlic is packed with antioxidants to killing bacteria, which make a useful remedy to help treat acne or other skin blemishes like blackheads and reduce pore size.
4. The allicin in garlic increases blood circulation to the scalp. Reduce hair fall and stimulate new hair growth. With add a clove of garlic to your shampoo or conditioner for use once a month. 
5. The high concentration of antioxidants helps to give the immune system a boost which is needed to treat colds, with sipping garlic tea. 
6. High intake of garlic and onions, resulted in lower signs of the beginnings of osteoarthritis in the hip. 
7. Garlic extract was effective in lowering blood pressure for patients with uncontrolled hypertension.
8.  Raw garlic consumption of 2 times or more per week was found to be associated with a 44% prevention of lung cancer. Garlic can still be of great help because it is also found to be able to reduce the size of cancer cells. 
9. Garlic is effective in curing heart diseases, in lowering LDL, which is bad cholesterol, and prevents them from clinging to our arteries. At the same time, garlic is also helpful in raising, this time, HDL which is good cholesterol. Studies show that people who regularly eat garlic have 9 percent lower cholesterol than people who did not. 
10.  Allicin, which is found to be effective in lowering high blood pressure and triglycerides and can also prevent weight gain. This may not be recommended though for people who suffer from diabetes (especially type 1 diabetics) because allicin also has the ability to lower high insulin levels.

11. The sulphuric compounds this herb contains are a natural antibiotic. So you can add garlic when you cook to against the infection in your body.

But, there is a reason that the people don’t like it too much because of the smell. A large number of sulfur compounds contribute to the smell and taste of garlic.

An easy way to remove these smells from your hands is to soap them up and rub them along a stainless steel faucet or knife. It really does work but it must be stainless steel that you're rubbing, and not any other metal. Because the theory says that the sulfur from the onion/garlic/fish would be attracted to and bind with one or more of the metals in stainless steel.

When eaten in quantity, garlic may be strongly evident in the garlic consumer's sweat and breath the following day. This is because garlic's strong-smelling sulfur compounds are metabolized, forming allyl methyl sulfide. And the way to overcome it is using of a sauna or through any other exercise that makes you sweat.