Wednesday, April 27, 2011

GARLIC







Garlic is name a vegetable,it is and herb.It is used in recipes around the world.Garlic has been used medicinally for thousands of years,and garlic is believed to war off evil spirits.Folklore stories tell that garlic repelled vampires .Protected against the Evil eye.the only negative think you can say about garlic is here is an interesting video about garlic festival in California.


   Garlic  history:
the word garlic comes from old English garlic meaning "spear leek".6000 years ago garlic was one of the most common product in the Asia,Africa ,and Europe.Garlic was highly  valuable and it was even used as currency.
Medicinal value
Garlic has been hailed for it's medicinal value .It was used to treat a wide variety of aches .Current research
suggest it help lowering cholesterol.provides protection against heart disease,reduces cardiovascular diseases
helps to relieve colds and flu symptoms and even prevents Cancer.Garlic is a powerful,natural antibiotic and it doesn't kill off our healthy bacteria like drug antibiotics.Garlic to be effective as a healing agent and general antibiotic . 

Used for centuries as both a food and medicine, garlic offers a variety of  benefits to people of all ages and lifestyles. The rhizome, or bulb, of this pungent-smelling plant contains potent medicinal compounds that may help to treat or prevent several common ailments. Although garlic's benefits do not apply exclusively to men, its health-boosting effects are even more important to males than to females. Consult your health care provider before taking nutritional eating unusually large amounts of garlic.


Garlic for Health
Today, we know garlic is an excellent herb for creating and maintaining overall health, but it also has many lesser known, but powerful qualities. For example, many people don't know that it's a naturally powerful antibiotic. This natural antibiotic is effective against toxic bacteria, viruses, and fungus. Available in pills, capsules, liquid and actual raw cloves, garlic is one of the most popular healthy herbs around today.
Garlic helps platelet stickiness or aggregation to help reduce blood coagulation, and promote heart health.
The antioxidant properties of garlic help scavenge harmful free radicals, which can damage LDL (bad) cholesterol in the blood stream.
Garlic also promotes increased bile production to help reduce levels of fat in the liver. Garlic pills also help ward off coughs and colds.

How to grow garlic
Garlic root forms a bulb,comprising several segments.Call clover,garlic is grown from the individual cloves.Each cloves will produce one plant with a single bulb,which may in turn contain up to twenty clove
Garlic there are have different kinds of Regular Garlic and Elephant Garlic -much larger than regular garlic
Garlic food