With all of the wonderful healing properties of garlic, you may wonder how you can get enough into your daily diet without needing breath mints all day. It actually doesn't take much garlic to provide a health boost as experts recommend only one to two garlic cloves per day.

Garlic has been used for thousands of years in human history. Even Tutankhamen, the famous Egyptian pharaoh had garlic bulbs placed in his tomb along with gold and treasures for him to take to the afterlife. In fact garlic was regularly fed to the slaves that built the pyramids to keep them healthy and disease free.

Because of garlic's recognized importance as a fantastic aid to health in history and its newly discovered significance for our generation, garlic's chemistry has been well researched. Literally hundreds of compounds interact within garlic to make it one of the best health foods of history and modern times. The sulfur compounds work to interfere with many bad compounds that cause viral and bacterial infections, cancers, cholesterol, blood clots etc.

Garlic can be used for insect bites or stings, just crush a clove and apply the juice to the bite or sting. If you have a problem with acne, especially those that are infected, reddish swollen and painful, just cut a fresh clove in slices and apply to the affected part a few times daily.

Anti-bacteria, antiviral and anti-fungal properties- Good for preventing and treating lung infections. It has been traditionally used to treat coughs and colds. Eating the raw herb or taking garlic capsules may help to prevent catching the flu during the flu epidemic. Boiling the bulb in vinegar and taking one or two cloves daily is a traditional Chinese remedy for lung abscess.

Garlic is a biennial herb, but it is generally cultivated as an annual herb for convenience. Morphologically, it is a short herb with fibrous roots, a condensed stem and flattened leaves. The separate cloves of the garlic are enclosed together to form a single bulb. There could be anywhere between six and thirty-five cloves in one bulb of garlic.

Garlic works as an antibiotic, antiviral, antifungal, antiseptic and a germicide. It is also an antioxidant, so diet rich in raw garlic fights against harmful free radicals. It improves blood circulation, and also helps in prolong erection. It is an excellent remedy for whooping cough. Syrups of garlic is given in doses of five drops to a teaspoonful two or three times a day in this condition.

When ingested, the predominant enzyme in garlic, allinase, reacts with alliin to form allicin, the compound responsible for garlic's pronounced odor and antibacterial qualities. Garlic travels through the bloodstream and lungs making perspiration, breath and skin smell pungent. Shortly after consumption, the odor of garlic may stay with the body for up to 18 hours, even when odorless garlic pills are consumed.

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