garlic herb
Ahumai sativum is the Latin name for garlic.
This plant, without which we can not think of a healthy kitchen, grows in gardens as one of the main crop plants seasoning.
Grows 60-70 cm high.
Interestingly, garlic was used since the ancient Egyptians.
When workers were working to raise pyramids Cheops, no day to not consume garlic table (that we describe Herodotus, the famous historian of antiquity).
And Shakespeare is much talk of garlic, for example in ,, A Midsummer Night's Dream ".
By that after eating garlic pore exudes a strong odor, it was said in ancient times as he defends vampires, witches and evil spirits.
Basically, as a medicine, we recommend Dioscoride.
Garlic-natural treatments
The plant is used in the treatment of many digestive diseases.
Modern medicine has proved in the last fifty years that garlic lowers cholesterol, lowers blood pressure and prevents blood clotting, so the appearance of a heart attack.
The plant contains oil (which in turn contain alein, transformed in the body into allicin).
The effect of oil contained in garlic have a strong disinfectant, stimulates digestion, prevents high blood pressure and arteriosclerosis.
Since centuries, garlic is used as the main drug that combats intestinal worms.
It is used in the treatment of asthma, jaundice, eczema and snake bites ... read more ...
