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With a long history of traditional use, Medicinal Spice Oils have proven themselves time and again as safe yet potent healers and preventers of disease. Modern science has verified these traditional uses. See articles and research below on the following:
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Anti-ulcer Effect of Garlic HerbalGram. 1992;26:27 Along with the numerous other health benefits of garlic we're so fond of reporting, there is now evidence of an anti-ulcer effect. Recent studies at the Catholic University Medical College in Seoul, Korea, focused on the protective effect of two major garlic compounds, allicin and diallyl disulfide, in protecting the stomach against damage from ethyl (grain) alcohol. This study, by Sok Won Han, et al., showed that diallyl disulfide, a breakdown product of the pungent ingredient of garlic, protected the stomach lining against ethanol-induced damage. The results of this study were that the garlic compound "completely protected the stomach against mucosal damage induced by absolute ethanol." Since it had already been determined that garlic and its chemical compounds do not decrease the amount of stomach acid this study sought to determine the mechanism by which garlic might protect against alcohol-induced damage. The probable mechanism was found when the researchers measured an increase in the production of prostaglandins by garlic-stimulated stomach cells. Prostaglandins are important chemical mediators of inflammation and pain. Apparently, the mild irritation of the garlic compound triggers a protective reaction which decreases subsequent damage by the alcohol. (Sok Won Han, et al. 1990, Bulletin of Clinical Research CMC 18(2):223-236)
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