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The active beginning responsible for the medicinal properties of the Allium sativum is, especially, in the bulb. The principal ones are a sulphurous and odourless compound, the aliína, and an enzyme, the aliinasa. After the clove of garlic to break and having contacted the air, the aliinasa turns the aliína, first in alicina, and then in disulfuro of alilo, medicinal substance that already possesses the fragrance typical of this bulb.

So that the above mentioned substance is liberated, therefore, the teeth must be crushed; it is necessary to bear in mind here that the more intense is the smell, the more effective will turn out to be his therapeutic action.

The garlic is, first of all, a powerful peripheral, very useful vasodilatador in cases of hypertension, aterosclerosis, cholesterol excess. hyperglycemia and disorders of the blood coagulation. It is a diuretic, due to the fructosanos, and antifungoid and antibiotic, for the extract.

The last studies emphasize the beneficial effect of this millennial medicine in the prevention and complementary treatment of the cancer. In China it was observed, a few years ago, that in the regions where the garlic was present in the diet there were happening less cases of cancer of stomach, and it was proved that it it was stemming, partly, from the fact that his active beginning inhibits the nitrites formation.

On the other hand, in laboratory studies it has been seen that the tri-sulfide of alilo content in the bulb brakes the growth of the cancerous cells, he interferes the metabolism of these and stimulates the system inmunítario. It is demonstrated, anyway, that the leukocytes prove to be more active in the persons who take garlic or supplements of garlic.