Garlic active ingredients

Enteric-coated tablets or capsules of garlic are better absorbed since an active ingredient, allicin, is acid labile. The tablets or capsules bypass the stomach and release their contents in the alkaline medium of the small intestine [4],... 

Garlic has been reported to have lipid- and blood-pressure-lowering properties, as well as antiplatelet, antioxidant, and fibrinolytic effects. In animal models and human cell cultures, it has been shown to have antiatherosclerotic activity (see Chapter 50). The sulfur-containing component, allicin, is considered to be the principal active ingredient of garlic, but several other bioactive ingredients have also been isolated. 

Ray B, Chauhan NB, Lahiri DK (2011) The "Aged Garlic Extract " (AGE) and one of its active ingredients S-Allyl-LCysteine (SAC) as potential preventive and therapeutic agents for Alzheimer s Disease (AD). Curr Med Chem 18 3306-3313... 

Clean Liquid Soap (Italy) Palmolive with a unique action against bad odor. The active ingredient neutralizes all odors of garlic, onion, fish, gas, bleach, etc. Ideal for the kitchen. pH neutral and helps to maintain the natural balance of skin. Moisturizers help prevent drying due to frequent washing... 

DNOC is used as its ammonium- or sodium salt, which are water-soluble. The salts are contact herbicides for the control of broad-leaved weeds in cereals, onion and garlic at rates of 3-5 kg active ingredient/ha. In emulsifiable concentrate formulation DNOC can be used for the preharvest desiccation of potatoes and leguminous seed crops (Worthing, 1979). 

It is used as a selective herbicide for the preemergence treatment of cotton, garlic, flower bulbs and potatoes at rates of 2-6 kg active ingredient/ha. Applied... 

Garlic is also a medicinal used by the Kallawaya herbalists, and it is mentioned that crushed garlic contains the powerful bactericidal agent allyl allylthiosulfinate (allicin), which is formed by the interaction of the enzyme allinase with the substrate 5-ethyl L-cystein sulfoxide (Bastien, 1987, p. 102, n. 6). Bastien in turn supplies the results of an experiment on mice. Thus, in miee infected with sarcoma, injection either of the enzyme allinase or the substrate 5-ethyl L-cystein sulfoxide (alliin) alone had no effect, all animals dying within 16 days. However, in infected mice treated with both the enzyme and the substrate, the animals were still alive after 6 months. Allicin is therefore the active anticancer ingredient, as will be emphasized especially in Chapter 5. 

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