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Description
The scientific name of this plant is Allium Sativum which is commonly known as garlic. Garlic is one of the bulbous plant that grows up to 1.2m in height. This plant is so easy to grow in mild climates and can be grown throughout the year. They are also said to drive away moles and rabbits because of their structure which really makes them very hard. Countries that produce the largest amount of garlic are China, India, South Korea, Egypt, Russia and United States from highest to lowest but garlic is grown globally so no need to worry.
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Culinary Uses
What are the uses of garlic? Garlic is widely used in cooking. Many healthy dinner recipes uses garlic as a seasoning and to make the food become more delicious and tasteful. They are also used to produce different kind of varierty of breads and dishes like garlic bread, garlic chicken and etc.
I always use garlic when I cook vegetables aside from onion, scallion, red pepper, and ginger. This will really make my recipe produce more aroma, make it more healthy and will make my recipe more irresistable and delicious. I also this used when I want to cook meat under a dry heat. I marinate it with soy sauce, lemon and crushed garlic for about 30 minutes and cook it. They are also used in other healthy recipes.
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Medicinal Uses and Health Benefits
There are also medicinal uses and health benefits of eating raw and cooked garlic. Here, we have lists of disease or ailment that could reduce or prevent the occurrences by garlic intake.
1. Brain Cancer – There is a compound called organo-sulfur found in garlic is said to kill the cells in glioblastomas, also known as a brain tumor that is so deadly.
2. Prostate Cancer – There is a study with regular intake of garlic will reduce the chance of getting a prostate cancer.
3. Lung Cancer – people who intake garlic atleast 8 times a month had a 44% chance to reduce the risk of getting lung cancer.
4. Protection for the Heart – An element of garlic oil called diallyl trisulfide is said to help and protect the heart on a cardiac surgery and after the heart attack. Also diallyl trisulfide can be applied as a cure to heart failure.
5. High of Blood Pressure and Cholesterol – Supplementation of garlic extract can improve blood lipid visibility, fortifies the potential of blood antioxidant, and have substantial reductions in blood pressures. This also results to diminish in the point of oxidation product in the blood samples which proves the reduction of oxidation responses to the body.
6. Liver Injury brought by Too Much Alcohol Intake – Diallyl disulfide found in garlic can help to protect the liver from too much alcohol.
7. Hip Osteoarthritis – Women who eats more garlic in their diet will have a low chance of getting osteoarthritis.
8. Cold – Regular consumption of garlic can reduce the risk of getting colds.
9. Powerful Antibiotic – A garlic compound called diallyl sulfide has greater effect and hundred times powerful than other antibiotics in killing Campylobacter bacterium (bacteria that causes intestinal infections).
Imagine how useful this garlic is? So much illness and other type of ailment can be cured. So have a regular intake of this bulbous plant now. Aside using this for healthy dinner recipes, this can also be used as a preventive measure. Prevention is much better than cure.
Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garlic
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Mythical Creatures Repellent
Garlic is used widely here in Philippines to repel demons, spirits and other form of evil elements like aswang, tikbalang (its best description here is half human and half horse) , manananggal (a mythical creature that flies half of its body and eats flesh during night time) and others. Garlic is used as a necklace so aswang won’t dare to take a bite on you.
In other countries, they use garlic to protect themselves from vampire (a corpse that bites the neck of their victim to drink their blood). I don’t know what’s the compound of garlic that vampire hates it – this is according to the myth. I'm thinking this would be the reason : because garlic could kill blood sucking creatures like ticks, fleas and it repels mosquitoes.
