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Article: More news about garlic. (includes related information and recipes)
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- Vibrant Life
- Article date:
- March 1, 1995
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Garlic's reputation as a powerful healing agent goes back more than 5,000 years. Herbal forklore touted garlic's medicinal benefits in treating a variety of ills such as intestinal disorders, high blood pressure, toothaches, throat disorders, tumors, and more.
By the end of World War 11, hundreds of studies confirmed that garlic works against the microbes that spread such diseases as botulism, diarrhea, staphylococcus, dysentery, and typhoid. However, with the development of "super drugs" like penicillin in the 1940s, garlic research was, for the most part, discontinued.
But today garlic is again making headlines for its medicinal benefits. Extensive ...