5 Powerful Healing Properties of Garlic

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'It’s not as colorful or alluring as many fruit and vegetable superfood varieties, but garlic is actually one of the most powerful healing foods that you can include in your daily diet. I’ve written about garlic in the past, specifically covering the many ways in which this common food can protect against cancer and infections. While significant (and extremely easy to take advantage of), these are only a few of the key benefits garlic has to offer.

Here are the top 5 healing properties of garlic that put many pharmaceutical drugs to shame:'

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The Incredible Health Benefits of Garlic

The health benefits of garlic in a nutshell:

• Fights infections
• Contains cancer-preventing chemicals
• Thins the blood
• Reduces blood pressure, cholesterol, triglycerides
• Stimulates the immune system
• Prevents and relieves chronic bronchitis
• Acts as an expectorant

'There's no doubt that garlic destroys bacteria. The compound in garlic that acts as an antibiotic is allicin, which is formed when garlic is crushed.

If the aroma - hence allicin - is destroyed, as in cooking, garlic is no longer a microbe killer, although the health benefits of garlic don't stop there, it can perform other therapeutic functions.

Tests even have found raw garlic more powerful than penicillin and tetracycline.'

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