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Article: In medical laboratories, garlic is coming up roses
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 19, 1996
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Garlic, the "stinking rose" beloved by gourmets and health gurus
for nearly 4,000 years now, is finally getting respect from the
mainstream medical establishment.
First mentioned in 1550 B.C. in an Egyptian medical papyrus, then
given a whiff of credibility in 1858, when Louis Pasteur discovered
that its juice kills bacteria, garlic is now one of the hottest
phytochemicals -- plant compounds -- in medical research.
In cancer centers, government labs and dietary supplement
factories, garlic in all its many forms -- raw and raunchy, stewed
and sweet, deodorized and dandified -- is being hungrily studied, not
to mention munched, by eager scientists.
But the more they tease apart the 60-to-100 ...