Benefits of Garlic

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Garlic contains many nutrients. This plant serves to maintain health and prevent disease, ranging from worms to cancer and other degenerative diseases. Other benefits for memory and immunity, and prevent premature aging.Garlic's reputation as one of the important components in a variety of cooking spices and cure various diseases, is well known throughout the world. Garlic is one of the most important horticultural crop in Indonesia.
Almost all traditional Indonesia dishes using garlic as one of its components, namely as a spice and food flavoring. Parents ancients chew 1-2 cloves of garlic every day to maintain stamina and health.
Although garlic has been widely known in Indonesia, this plant is not actually native to Indonesia. Garlic originated from Central Asia, namely Japan and China. Subtropical regions of both countries, the garlic spread throughout Asia, Europe, and finally to the whole world.
Bulbs of garlic cloves consists of several (3-12 cloves) are clustered together to form large bulbs, white and shaped like a top. The name for garlic is very diverse, namely garlic (UK), knoflook (Germany), suan (China), pills (Korea), ninniku (Japan), aglio (Italy), thoam (Arabic), ajo (Spanish).
In Indonesia, garlic is also known by several local names, such as onions Bodas (Sunda), bhabang Pote (Madura), white garlic (Minang), onion pulak (Tarakan), lasuna moputih (Minahasa), pia moputi (Gorontalo), lasuna kebo (Makassar), take de acres (Halmahera), take bodudo (Ternate), take fiufer (Papua), lasuna (Karo), kesuna (Bali).
Since old-fashionedGarlic has a Latin name Allium sativum Linn. All the word means smells and cultivated sativum means. Sativum designation to distinguish it from other types of onions are grown wild, namely Allium longicurpis Regel.
Family or genus Allium sebenarnva there are about 500 species. More than 250 species including garlic, onions among others. Garlic plants can be found in the terna (clustering), grow upright, and can reach a height of 30-60 cm.
In Indonesia, there are several centers of garlic, diantaranva West Java, Central Java, East Java, Bali, and Nusa Tenggara. Superior type of garlic grown in Indonesia is lumbu lumbu yellow to green and to land in the highlands and white lumbu to the lowlands.
Other varieties are the result of modification of the three varieties, developed in various regions so that the given local names, such as the type cirebon, Tawangmangu, Santong, Sumbawa, Jatibarang, Bogor, obleg, idocos (Philippines), and Thailand.
Besides well known varieties of the onion garlic lanang which only consists of one clove.Lanang real garlic is garlic that grows in the ordinary that does not fit, so it does not develop properly and can only produce a single clove. Community, believe that garlic has properties lanang garlic better than usual, although there is no scientific evidence.
Efficacy onion recovered to prevent and cure various diseases has been known since ancient Greece. Hippocrates advocated the use of garlic to treat wounds and grievances toxic bronchitis (inflammation of the lungs). In fact, in China famous for an old adage. If you have reached the age of 50 years and then eat the garlic for 50 days, you will increase the age of 50 years. The phrase is not correct 100 percent, but suggests that garlic is important for health, so it can extend life expectancy.
At the time of ancient Egypt, the serf who were deployed in the construction of the pyramid is always equipped with a ration of garlic to keep a healthy body condition.Similarly, the Vikings are in the odyssey to conquer various countries always take garlic as a complement to their logistics.
MemoryEfficacy of garlic as a healthy traditional food has long attracted the attention of scientists. Dr. Saito, one of Japan's leading researchers on the aging process, have found that garlic can prolong the life span of rats reared in the laboratory.
A study at the University of Tokyo noted that garlic is good for groups of older people.This plant is able to rejuvenate the brain and boost the immune system.
Garlic extract has been shown to suppress neuronal cell damage in the brain and can even stimulate the growth of new neuronal cells. Of the experiment proved that the old rats fed garlic scored better in memory tests than those not given garlic.
Ration of garlic was also produced more antibodies and lymphocytes, the white blood cells to fight infection. In addition, garlic is also beneficial to keep us from cancer in old age, chiefly the risk of gastric cancer and colon.
Research conducted at the University of Minnesota also shows that the chances of developing cancer by 50 percent in older women who consumed garlic. Prostate cancer cells to grow only one-quarter of normal speed when sufferers eat garlic.
In 1981, researchers from medicine research center at Tagore Medical College, India, reported the effects of raw garlic and fry are tested on 20 patients who had a history of heart disease. The results show that the tendency of blood clots in the veins is reduced, which is indicated by an increased fibrinolytic activity.
Lowering CholesterolThe greatness of the consumption of garlic as a suppressor of cholesterol was also noted in several studies. Consumption of garlic and a half to one clove a day for a month can lower cholesterol levels by 9 percent. One of the most powerful anti-cholesterol agent in garlic is ajone, a compound that prevents blood clotting.
Research conducted by Bordia, and published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 1981 revealed that garlic can lower cholesterol by 14 percent and increase the good cholesterol HDL (High Density Lipoprotein) by 40 percent after six months.
Meanwhile, epidemiological studies revealed that groups of people who consume 30-50 g of garlic a week had significantly lower cholesterol levels than the group of people who are not at that level of consumption.
Garlic is also known to prevent heart attacks. Study involving 432 patients with heart disease showed that those who eat garlic (2-3 cloves per day) was able to survive longer.
This happens because the garlic is able to minimize blockages in heart arteries.Therefore, fans of the meat needs to include garlic (in the form of herbs or pickles) to reduce the adverse effects of animal fats.
Several studies have shown that garlic is also very efficacious to kill parasitic worms in the body. Garlic as an article in Aquarium Fish Antinematodal agent, November 1995, showed that garlic inhibits the growth of nematodes (worms) in the digestive tract Pterophylum scalare.