Spicing up your food with garlic can help protect your lungs
against infections, finds a new research.
The study noted that a chemical found in garlic can kill bacteria that cause
life-threatening lung infections in people with cystic fibrosis, a genetic
disorder that mostly affects the lungs.
Asthma
It's a lung condition characterized by inflammation of the bronchi and constriction of the airways that result in coughing, wheezing or breathlessness. Allergy and other airway irritants can trigger it
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The chemical - known as allicin - could be an efficient treatment against a group of infectious bacteria that is highly resistant to most antibiotics.
Professor John Govan from the University of Edinburgh in Britain said, "At a time when novel antimicrobial agents are urgently required, chemical and microbiological research has the potential to unlock the rich reservoir of antimicrobial compounds present in plants such as garlic."
The chemical is produced naturally by garlic bulbs to ward off a closely-related
group of plant pathogens found in soil and water habitats.
Source: Medindia
Source: Medindia
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