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Article: Garlic can lower cholesterol slightly, some studies show.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- December 29, 2000
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Q. Can garlic lower cholesterol and is it safe?
A. Garlic is one of the most studied _ and storied _ herbs. It does appear to have modest cholesterol-lowering abilities, and we'll get to that and the issue of safety shortly.
Garlic is cultivated all over the world. As early as the first century A.D., Dioscorides wrote that garlic could "clear the arteries."
Garlic poultices were used to prevent wound infections from Roman antiquity through World War I. Garlic earned the nickname "Russian penicillin" during World War II because, after running out of antibiotics, the Russian government turned to this ancient remedy for its soldiers. Garlic fell ...