So I thought I would finally make my 1st post on alternative medicine. I used to think anything I didn't get from my Dr. or a pharmacist would never make me feel better but, over the years my view has changed...about 180 degrees. I won't go into my full rant about how our country is over medicated, especially our children but, I will say that for especially things like the common cold or sinus infections there is a whole world of natural alternatives especially to antibiotics.
I used to frequently get sinus infections and started reading the benefits of old fashioned garlic. Italians have been cooking with and using garlic to cure ales for centuries, being that I married an Italian I figured it could not hurt. So, when I feel a cold coming on, key word when you feel it coming on, I turn to my kyolic garlic extract. Medical studies have shown that garlic - the aromatic seasoning people either love or hate - can lower cholesterol, prevent dangerous blood clots, reduce blood pressure, prevent cancer, and protect against bacterial and fungal infections.
Just what makes garlic so good? Known scientifically as Allium sativum, garlic contains more than 100 biologically useful chemicals, including substances with such strange names as alliin, alliinase, allicin, S-allylcysteine, diallyl sulfide, allyl methyl trisulfide.
In fact, garlic has been used medicinally for at least 3,000 years, but until relatively recently its benefits were considered little more than folklore. According to a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association (Nov. 28, 1990;264:2614), the therapeutic roles of garlic have been described in more than 1,000 scientific studies. So when you feel that illness coming on start chopping up that garlic or better yet buy it in extract pill form at your natural market.
Just what makes garlic so good? Known scientifically as Allium sativum, garlic contains more than 100 biologically useful chemicals, including substances with such strange names as alliin, alliinase, allicin, S-allylcysteine, diallyl sulfide, allyl methyl trisulfide.
In fact, garlic has been used medicinally for at least 3,000 years, but until relatively recently its benefits were considered little more than folklore. According to a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association (Nov. 28, 1990;264:2614), the therapeutic roles of garlic have been described in more than 1,000 scientific studies. So when you feel that illness coming on start chopping up that garlic or better yet buy it in extract pill form at your natural market.
"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease." -Thomas Edison
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