Garlic-role in heart disease ,common cold,Hypertension(BP) lipids diseases in pregnanacy: Reference :-Vedas from India

Ancient Indian "Rushi pungavas" wrote "Rigveda" ,"Yajurveda" ,"Adharvanaveda" ,"Samaveda" on "talapatra"s.Indian veda, upanishad ,Itihasa are so popular and scientifically proved.
One among them is mentioned about Garlic
Garlic heals gastritis and purifies blood ( i.e prevents blood clotting and susequently reduces risk of heart attacks ,embolism, thrombosis)
All these are mentioned in old talapatras
What about Recent randomised controlled trial /meta analysis/ double blinded studies/experiments results on Garlic?
Is it help ful to reduce heart diseases?

Is it beneficial to reduce blood pressure?
some studies are showing negative results about garlic

• Garlic powder 9 gram per day for 12 weeks was ineffective in lowering cholesterol levels in patients with hypercholesteremia. (Ref: Arch Intern Med 1998 jun 8:158(11): 1189-94)

But Majority Evidences are showing Garlic has significant benefit in pregnants with heart diseases ,common cold, bloodpressure.

Final conclusion :

Garlic can....

• Inhibit platelet aggregation
• Increase fibrinolysi
• Reduce blood pressure
• Enhance anti oxidant activity
• Reduce significant level of serum lipids
• Garlic give cardioprotective properties
• Reduce cancer risks
• Decrease common cold

Refenences:

Silagy C,Neil A >Garlic as a lipid lowering agent : A meta analysis

• Garlic protects from cancers (Ref: )

AHRQ -agency for healthcare research and quality

• Garlic reduces cardio vascular diseases

Journal of nutrition 2001 ;131:977s-979s

Journal Hypertension 1994 :12: 463-468