The human immune system is one of our body's most important system for fighting disease- and not just infections like colds and the flu, but cancer as well.
It has been thought that the immune system slows down with age. Not so, say scientist who have discovered that one's nutrition has a lot to do with the strength and health of one's immune system.
Cardiovascular illness is responsible for about 300 out of 10,000 deaths every year. To get some idea of what this means in sheer numbers of Americans died during World War 1, yet during the single year of 1986, twice as many - died from heart disease. And these figures don't even include those who live with daily suffering as the result of chronic cardiovascular illness. The prevention and treatment of heart disease in its many forms is one of garlic most impressive talents.
Folk medicine has placed garlic on the front line in fighting infection and illness for centuries. Even mainstream physicians have made use of it.
In World War I, American army doctors soaked sterilized sphagnum moss with garlic juice and applied it to soldiers' wounds to relieve infection. In India, garlic is still used to wash wounds and skin ulcers. Medical researchers around the world now agree that garlic does fight microbes of all sorts, from infectious bacteria to athlete's foot fungus.
Emitting garlic breath isn’t exactly a good way to make friends and influence people. Worse yet, it’s virtually unavoidable if you’re handling fresh garlic. The sulfur that causes the herb’s smell is so incredibly strong and so easily absorbed by the body that the mere act of chopping garlic cloves – even if you don’t actually eat it – cause it to be absorbed by the skin and released in your breath.
RSS Feed
