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So what's the deal with garlic blood clotting, to normalize
and high blood pressure? Garlic blood pressure, and to prevent
has been recommended as a infections. (motherearthnew.com).
natural remedy to treat high blood Aside from lowering blood pressure,
pressure for a long time now, and garlic can also help in lowering
research still claims that garlic does cholesterol, and can help fight off
indeed lower blood pressure. germs.
So how much garlic do you have to
have to get the therapeutic value?
Garlic has been shown to be effective in
lowering systolic blood pressure with
600-900 mg of powdered garlic. (Silagy
& Neil, 1994) This is equal to about 1
fresh clove.
Creative Ways to Eat Garlic
| Sautéed in olive oil.
How Can Garlic Help Patients | Make your own homemade garlic
with High Blood Pressure? bread with whole wheat bread,
crushed garlic and olive oil.
What is in the garlic that lowers blood
pressure? The same thing that makes the | In homemade salsa.
garlic have that strong smell. The allicin | In homemade hummus
in the garlic is what is responsible for | Guacamole
both the smell and the hypotensive effect | As a seasoning for vegetables.
of garlic. The hypotensive effects are due
to a few known reasons including that it | Stirred into homemade marinara.
has to do with an increase in red blood | Allicin in garlic is responsible
cell velocity, and nitric acid metabolism.
(Bauman, 121) Since it is the allicin that for both the smell and the
makes the garlic smell as well as lower
blood pressure, it is important to steer hypotensive effect of garlic.
away from the odorless garlic Garlic also contains small
supplements since they may be less
effective. amounts of selenium and
selenium, believed to prevent
Garlic also contains small amounts
of selenium and selenium is abnormal blood clotting,
believed to prevent abnormal
normalize blood pressure
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