Garlic: the number one enemy of bacteria
- Posted on 23/12/2022 09:56
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- By raymonddzakpata@sante-education.tg
Extract from the article: One compound in garlic is extremely effective against bacteria. This compound is ajoene, which studies attribute to a series of medicinal virtues, including antimicrobial properties. The idea of a researcher at the University of Copenhagen was...
One compound in garlic is extremely effective
against bacteria. This compound is ajoene, which studies attribute to a series
of medicinal virtues, including antimicrobial properties. The idea of a researcher at the University of
Copenhagen was to extract ajoene, purify it and test it on a particularly
fearsome bacterium: Pseudomonas aeruginosa, one of the main culprits of
hospital-acquired infections, which is highly resistant and the cause of a
large number of deaths in fragile (immunocompromised) patients. The
administration of ajoene has been used to support antibiotics and the
specialist has observed in the laboratory that this combination acts much more
effectively than the drugs alone. In fact, ajoene helps to paralyse the
communication system between the bacteria within the biofilm, the bacterial
colony, while blocking their ability to deregulate the white blood cells. To
put it more simply, the microbes are disoriented and disarmed. Beyond the
antibacterial aspect, garlic consumption has been associated with numerous
benefits: anti-cholesterol, anti-inflammatory, anti-coagulant,
anti-hypertensive, antioxidant, anti-cancer.
Elom AKAKPO
