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Metas de Enfermería

Metas de Enfermería

ABRIL 2005 N° 3 Volumen 8

Allium sativum: garlic

Section: Medicinal herbs

How to quote

Serrano Ruiz A. Allium sativum: el ajo. Metas de Enferm abr 2005; 8(3): 51-53

Authors

Alfredo Serrano Ruiz

Position

Diplomado en Enfermería

Contact address

Servicio de Farmacología Clínica. Hospital Clínica Puerta de Hierro. San Martín de Porres nº 4. 28035 Madrid

Contact email: aserrano.hpth@salud.madrid.org

Abstract



Garlic is one of the most widely used plants for therapeutic purposes. Garlic has been attributed with a capacity to modify the risk of atherosclerosis, decreased plasmatic lipids and cholesterol, decreased arterial blood pressure and prevention of thromboembolitic disease. All of these supposed effects are due to the resistance of compounds such as allicine and its derivates, which explains why commercialised compounds prepared from garlic contain a standardised amount of this molecule. Scientific evidence places the therapeutic value of this plant well below that attributed to it by popular belief, to the extreme, that for the time being, we cannot confirm any of these properties.

Keywords:

Garlic; Medicinal plants; hypolipemiant; platelet antiaggregation; pharmacology

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Título:

Allium sativum: el ajo