GARLIC ANOTHER OF NATURE'S WONDERS

Article from the Daily Mail below, this isn't new, its something us Holistic practitioners have known for years, none the less, very well worth sharing. Incidentally an experiment I used to carry out on my students in Aromatherapy, to show how potent garlic oil is, was to rub a garlic bulb on the soles of the feet and note how long it took to be absorbed into the body and excreted on the breath and it normally takes around an hour and a half for this to occur. This proves how powerful essential oils can be absorbed into the blood stream and thus act therapeutically on the body. Garlic oil, like most essential oils is antiseptic and good at warding of colds as well as vampires. A little tip if everyone eats it at the same meal, you wont smell it on one another. And I'm sure if you have ever worked out at the gym with someone the next day after they have eaten garlic at dinner you can quite clearly smell it in their sweat.

Garlic oil 'can protect the heart by preventing cell damage'

Lifesaver: Garlic oil contains an ingredient, diallyl trisulphide, that has the power to prevent the destruction of heart tissue

Garlic may provide protection against heart damage as well as vampires, research suggests.
The pungent bulb contains an ingredient that has the power to prevent the destruction of heart tissue which can lead to heart attacks.
Scientists tested the compound, diallyl trisulfide, on mice at risk of heart damage from blocked coronary arteries.
Treatment just before blood flow was restored reduced the amount of heart tissue damaged by almost two-thirds.
Diallyl trisulfide releases hydrogen sulphide, which has previously been shown to protect heart tissue in low concentrations.
Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine in the United States have turned to diallyl trisulfide, a garlic oil component, as a way to deliver the benefits of hydrogen sulphide to the heart.
Normally the unstable and volatile gas is difficult to deliver as a therapy because it needs to be injected. Now, thanks to garlic oil, it can be administered orally.

HYDROGEN SULFIDE: VERY USEFUL IN SMALL DOSES

In high concentrations, hydrogen sulfide is a strong poison: Just a few breaths can be fatal.
But in small amounts, like those the body makes naturally, hydrogen sulfide serves several key functions.
It reduces inflammation, lowers blood pressure and keeps cells alive.
After a heart attack or heart surgery has interrupted the flow of oxygen-rich blood to tissues, hydrogen sulfide allows oxygen to keep reaching the heart muscle.

Doctors could use diallyl trisulfide in many of the situations where researchers have proposed using hydrogen sulphide.
David Lefer, professor of surgery at Emory University School of Medicine, said: 'We are now performing studies with orally active drugs that release hydrogen sulphide. 
'This could avoid the need to inject sulphide-delivery drugs outside of an emergency situation.'
Researchers blocked the coronary arteries of mice for 45 minutes, simulating a heart attack, and gave them diallyl sulphide just before blood flow was restored.
The compound reduced the proportion of damaged heart tissue in the area at risk by 61 per cent, compared with untreated animals.
The findings were presented today at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions meeting in Orlando, Florida.
Further research reported by the team suggests diallyl trisulfide could also reduce heart enlargement caused by heart failure.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2062314/Garlic-oil-protect-heart-preventing-cell-damage.html#ixzz1e52G8zle

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