Garlic for Health

When I hear the garlic, perhaps what comes to mind is the bad breath interfere. Though garlic is one of the many benefits of medicinal plants, so called "tubers thousand properties". What the real substance is contained in it? Is it true that the sharper the flavor means that the higher efficacy?

Plant with the Latin name of the family Alliaceae Allium sativum include herbs that are very popular in Asia. He gives a distinctive fragrant flavor to the cuisine, as well as lowering cholesterol levels contained in fatty foods. So do not be surprised if the Chinese, Koreans and Japanese are using garlic as the main seasoning.

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Efficacy and Benefits Cats Whisker

Cat's whiskers (Orthosiphon stamineus Benth), which is also known by the name of the region as ucing Whisker, Whiskers cat, cat mustache, Songot koceng, Remujung or Sesaseyan is shrub that has a wet bar with a vertical height of 1.5 meters. The plant has an egg-shaped leaves with jagged edges rough spurs. The flowers are the stamens and pistils removing white or purple. Stamens longer than the tube size and can exceed the interest rate lips. Plants from tropical Africa and then spread to Asia and Australia is growing in places that are dry or wet to a height of 700 meters above sea level.
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Leaves the cat's whiskers are known to contain glycosides orthosiphonin believed to dissolve uric acid, phosphate and oxalate from the body, especially in the bladder, gall bladder and kidney and expedite expenditure of urine (diuretic). Cat's whiskers useful to address conditions such as rheumatism, coughs, colds, constipation, back pain, infection and inflammation of the kidneys, kidney stones, diabetes, albuminuria, syphilis, a bladder infection and arthritis gout.

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