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1/10/2013

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Allium is the name of a genus of plants that includes onions and garlic, chives, leeks and hundreds of other edible, ornamental or wild species. The edible ones rock a badass set of qualities: beautiful, spicy, sweet and also medicinal. My favorite, garlic, is a perfect example of how food can be medicine and medicine can be delicious.
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Allium Sativum, grown by Mama
Sometimes it surprises me that garlic is medicinal because it's so tasty and ubiquitous. That's the defining grace of herbal medicine, though: it works gently. Apparently, garlic has a long history as a medicine, ancient even. According to Matthew Wood and other herbalists, garlic
  • supports beneficial gut flora and kills unhelpful bacteria
  • supports metabolism and is also nutritive (so it helps the body replace old worn out tissues with healthy new ones),
  • supports digestion for most constitutions,
  • can be used reliably to alleviate hypertension, and
  • dissolves and expels toxins.
And this is just a summary of its main uses as a medicine.

But it's also a food! What if all the food we ate were laden with supportive, friendly, delicious medicines like garlic? Each meal could be a boost to our bodies, like a splashy, quenching cup of sports drink to a marathon runner.

Sounds delicious.
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    Lorraine Ferron is a medical student, writer, and food lover. Read more about her at SweetAllium's About page.

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