Health Benefits of Garlic

Garlic is one of the nature's gift and a healthy food to keep ourselves healthy. It has been considered as wonder drug by people , for it helps preventing everything from common cold to plague.
                  Garlic is as good as ten mothers and taking garlic everyday keeps sickness at bay.

• Garlic is great for its antibiotic blood cleansing properties.
• Raw garlic is used to treat the symptoms of acne.
• It assists in managing high cholesterol levels.It is effective as a natural mosquito repellent.
• It is anti fungal and anti bacterial.
• It has a powerful antioxidant effect which can help protect the body against damaging free radicals.
• Its benefit to the cardiovascular system is great.
• Garlic helps improve your iron metabolism.
• It regulates the number of fat cells that get formed in our body.
• It acts as an antiseptic and helps in curing the wounds very quickly.     
• It helps in fighting against various infections and acts against inflammation and infections including cold and cough.
• Regular usage of garlic provides protection against cancer.
• Garlic lowers blood pressure and cardiovascular problems.
• It keeps the heart and the arteries healthy.
• It thins the blood and helps in controlling blood circulation and blood pressure.
• It stimulates the immune system.
• Garlic prevents and relives from respiratory problems like chronic bronchitis.
• It works as a cleanser of the digestive system, kills internal parasites and is an excellent internal antiseptic.
• It is also helpful for asthma, hysteria, dropsy and scurvy.
• It is also helpful in getting rid of vampires.
• It helps in the normalization of body functions.
• Regular usage of garlic shows significantly more activity in special white blood cells that fight tumors.
• Garlic acts as a great lung decongestant helping to loosen the harmful infection secretions of bronchial tubes.      
• It contains a lot of iodine which helps sufferers from hyperthyroid.
• It helps cure tuberculosis.
• It stimulates the secretion of gastric juices and aids in digestion.
• It is powerful against tumor formation due to its sulfur and selenium content.
• It acts as a heart relaxant and regulates the cardiac rhythm.
• It is effective in relieving nicotine poisoning.
• It helps against vaginal infection, either bacterial or fungal.
• It normalizes blood sugar. 

                So, start taking one or two cloves of garlic daily and keep yourself healthy. Cooked garlic is less powerful compared to the raw one.

                If it is used in excess, apart from garlic breath, it causes irritation or even damage to the digestive tract. Also, garlic could potentially disrupt anticoagulants. So, it is best to avoid before surgery.