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wisdom of the ancients.(health)(Brief Article)
Today's researchers prove the age-old theory that garlic is a powerful detoxifier
In ancient Assyria, certain plant medicines were held in especially high regard, including garlic (Allium sativum).
Garlic, which was called sumu in Assyria, was thought of, says John Heinerman, Ph.D. in his now classic, The Healing Benefits of Garlic (1994), as an "ideal treatment for getting rid of intestinal worms, encouraging proper kidney and bladder function, and alleviating diarrhea due to contaminated food or water."
Garlic was also used against poisoning from toxic mushrooms and plants, and as a liver-supporting detoxifier. In fact, over the last few years, some important studies (mostly using cell-culture and animal-models) have borne this out.
1998. Drs. Zhao and Shichi, from Michigan's Wayne State University School of Medicine, set out to see what would happen when mice that received acetaminophen (e.g., Tylenol) were either given garlic compounds (diallyl disulfide, or DADS, and/or N-acetyl L-cysteine, or NAC) or no treatment. Treatment with both compounds "effectively protected the liver."
Another study looking at how extracts from garlic (aged) protect the liver was carried out this year by I. Sumioka, and others, and appeared in the Japanese Journal of Pharmacology. These researchers discovered that pretreating mice with a specific compound, S-allyl mercaptocysteine (SAMC), prevented ...
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