Today's researchers examine the ag...

Today's researchers examine 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 deliberation of, says John Heinerman, PhD in his now classic, The Healing Benefits of Garlic (1994) as an "ideal treatment for getting rid of intestinal worms, encouraging particular kidney and bladder function, and alleviating diarrhea to be paid to contaminated food or water."

Garlic was also used against poisoning from toxic mushrooms and plants, and as a liver-supporting detoxifier. In fact, athwart the last few years, a certain quantity of important studies (mostly using cell-culture and animal-models) have borne this out

1998 Dr Zhao and Shichi, from Michigan's Wayne State University educate of Medicine, set out to diocese what would happen when mice that received acetaminophen (eg Tylenol) were either given garlic composes (diallyl disulfide, or DADS, and/or N-acetyl L-cysteine, or NAC) or no treatment. Treatment with the couple compounds "effectively protected the liver."

Another investigation looking at how extracts from garlic (aged) preserve the liver was carried abroad this year by I. Sumioka, and others, and appeared in the Japanese Journal of Pharmacology. These researchers discovered that pretreating mice with a specific mingle S-allyl mercaptocysteine (SAMC), prevented liver damage from acetaminophen which these animals received.

not at home of Mysore, India, came a application of mind (also in 1998) by F Khanum, and colleagues, which direct the eyeed at the effects of feeding renewed garlic or garlic oil to rats which had been given the cancer-causing chemical, azomymethane (AOM).

The authors of the studious mood wanted to see what would happen with the detox enzyme in particular. The meditation concluded that long-term feeding of garlic (in this case, 23 weeks) models the toxic effects of chemicals, including cancer-causers, like AOM.

1999 Another contemplation one by R. Munday and CM Munday at fresh Zealand's Ruakura Agricultural Research Center that appeared in the journal Nutrition and Cancer, also turn the thoughtsed at the effects of the earlier mentioned intermix diallyl disulfide, on different organs in the rat.

The flushs of important detoxification enzymes, quinone reductase (QR) and GSH (mentioned earlier), were "significantly" increased, leading the authors to end that garlic's activation of these enzyme may help with detoxification, steady possibly shielding humans from "cancer of the gastrointestinal tract."

ASSYRIAN WISDOM AND present SCIENCE

So did the ancients know something about the detoxifying powers of garlic? It looks that they very well did, and the corpse of modern scientific evidence is continuing to validate that knowledge.

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