Monday, July 1, 2013

Good guy Garlic!

Ayurveda classifies taste into six categories- sweet, salt, sour, pungent, bitter and astringent. Garlic is one of those rare herbs which has five of these tastes. Garlic contains a range of compounds including “Allicin”, which is a pungent oily liquid that gives crushed garlic cloves their characteristic smell, and antibacterial properties. The bulb has proved to be a broad spectrum antibiotic that combats bacteria, intestinal parasites and viruses.

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