The Secret of GARLIC

In the mysterious story, it is often told that GARLIC (Allium sativum) and its unpleasant smell can expel evil creatures so people hang it on door and windows, or use it as necklace.

Actually, in the outside of mystical power that hasn’t proven yet, garlic has a power to kill evil creature that we usually call it as bacteria.

Beside that, garlic also can expel various diseases like cardiovascular disease, inflammation, hypertension, cancer, and multiple complications that is appeared by type 2 diabetes.

Garlic doesn’t only become popular thing to research in Indonesia, but also in international. One of research is done by Dr. H. Isensee from Tubingen University, Germany, that success to prove that garlic has power as cardio protective.

Several research has revealed that garlic extract which just be bruised, could bring down and kill some kind of bacteria included drug resistant bacteria. And Allicin, which contained in garlic, also is proven that it can protect body cells from material than can cause cancer, and could make slow the spreading of cancer cells.

A lot of scientific journals has propagated the benefit of garlic. And the conclusion always just one: Garlic is useful (and very reasonable being used as food material, although its smell can make breathing smell stinky).

However, there are 2 things that need attention in order to feel optimum power of garlic: Always use fresh garlic. Beside that, let garlic that has bruised for 10 minutes, in order to increase the Allicin.

GARLIC’S FUN FACTS

Onion has close relation with garlic.

Garlic actually has high vitamin C content.

People name garlic as “Stinky Rose” because its smell.

Do you know? The way that used for disappearing garlic’s unpleasant smell is brush it to the stainless steel surface.

Because of famed, in some areas in United States, arrange Garlic Festival every year.