Why Garlic Is So Valuable?

Garlic was so valuable to the ancients that quantities of garlic, along with onions, were used to sustain the health of the men who built the Pyramids of Egypt. And today garlic has been beneficial in the treatment of such respiratory illnesses as bronchitis and asthma. It has been used to treat stomach ulcers and tuberculosis. And it has antifungal qualities that have made it valuable in treating athlete's foot.

It is rare that a natural remedy like garlic should appear so prominently in early medical literature. Barely, we know, is mentioned in the Bible, but in the medical knowledge that has been passed down through the centuries, garlic comes up repeatedly. Garlic can surely be considered one of the oldest medicines human beings have been able to understand and utilize, a natural remedy respected today, as it was in ancient time.

Garlic's value for your heart is well known. First, it contains properties for fighting "bad" cholesterol. We know now that high-density lipoprotein certainly is, because it can be oxidized by dangerous free radicals. Oxidized LDL is an enemy of the white blood cells, which become enlarged as "foam cells" and ultimately are deposited on the arterial walls in the form of plaque. The lumen, the open space of the artery, becomes more and more narrow until it is completely clogged.