Parts Used: Bulb and oil

Active Compounds:  
The sulfur compound allicin, produced by crushing or chewing fresh garlic, in turn produces other sulfur compounds: ajoene, allyl sulfides, and vinyldithiins.

Believed to be of value for:
Asthma, Atherosclerosis, Colds and flu, Colic, Cough, Edema, High cholesterol
Hypertension (high blood pressure), Hypertriglyceridemia (high triglycerides)
Immune function.

Circulatory Effects:
Many publications have shown that garlic may support the cardiovascular system. It may lower cholesterol and triglyceride levels in the blood, inhibit platelet stickiness (aggregation), and increase fibrinolysis-which results in a slowing of blood coagulation.

Antimicrobial Actions:
Garlic may have antibacterial, antiviral, and anti-fungal activity' It may work against some intestinal parasites. and skin tumors.

Miscellaneous:
Garlic is useful for fevers, coughs, flatulence, disorders of the nervous system, agues, dropsical affections, pulmonary phthisis, whooping cough, gangrene of the lung and dilated bronchi.

Other Names: Garlic, Lashan, Rasonam, Lashuna, Veluthulli, Ugragandha, Mlecchagandha, Lesan