What is Allicin? What Are The Benefits of Allicin? Allicin Medical Uses: A-Z
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MORE SERIOUS HEALTH CONDITIONS
- AIDS - MRSA infection
- Bacterial infections - SARS
- Cancer - Tuberculosis
- Hepatitis    


The conditions described in the previous chapter can be self-treated using allicin quite safely, although it must be re-emphasised that where a treatment is being prescribed by a doctor, whether it be ongoing or short-term, you should always defer to that advice and, if you decide to treat yourself with allicin, discuss what you are planning with your practitioner.

There are, of course, a range of medical conditions, which are of a more serious nature where there are indications that allicin has a part to play. I feel it prudent to offer the following as no more than an indication of the state of play:


AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome)


Medical definition

A syndrome first identified in Los Angeles in 1981; a description of the causative virus – the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) – was available in 1983 the virus destroys a subgroup in lymphocytes, resulting in suppression of the body’s immune response. AIDS is essentially a sexually transmitted disease, either homosexually or heterosexually. The two other main routes of spread are via infected blood or blood products and by the maternofoetal route.

For those people who do enter a chronic stage there may be illness of varying severity including persistant generalised involvement of the lymph nodes – this is termed ARC (AIDS Related Complex) including intermittent fever, weight loss, diarrhoea, fatigue and night sweats. Often opportunistic infections can be life threatening to AIDS sufferers, especially pneumonia caused by the protozoan (Pneumocystis Carinii) and possible tumors leading to Karposi’s Sarcoma. Thus, it is not actually the AIDS virus that kills, but the infections that are easily picked up by having a seriously depleted immune system.

With this in mind it is clear that large doses of allicin powder can help to prevent infections from developing in HIV and sero-converted AIDS sufferers. By boosting the immune system and destroying a wide range of infectious organisms allicin powder can definitely help.
In the USA, trials in AIDS patients have demonstrated enhancement of natural killer cell activity using garlic extracts and Chinese studies with viral infections in bone marrow transplant patients have demonstrated a ”potent antiviral activity”. Human population studies have shown that regular intake reduces the risk of oesophageal, stomach and colon cancer. This was thought to be due to the antioxidant effect of allicin in reducing the formation of carcinogenic compounds in the gastro-intestinal tract.

Testimonial
As this book went to press David from New York City had been HIV+ for 10 years and has had full-blown AIDS for 2 years. He picked up a serious infection and used large doses of allicin powder capsules to get rid of this infection:

As someone who has had full-blown AIDS for over two years, I can attest to the strength and promise of allicin powder. For a quick example, I was experiencing diarrhoea about once every day or two – and then I started taking the allicin powder capsules. Since I started using them, I have not had diarrhoea ONCE. I have been using allicin powder capsules for about two months now. More dramatically, when I received my first shipment in the mail, I had been sick for three days with a viral infection and had been feeling worse each day. On the third day, I was really quite miserable and ill, especially realising that this illness could go on for two or three weeks – or worse. I started taking my first capsule toward the end of that third day, and two days later (Superbowl Sunday evening in the US), I was sitting up, eating a pizza, and enjoying watching television. I was surprised that I felt so much better in such a relatively short (48 hours) period of time. By the end of the third day I felt like I was basically over my viral infection, and that the ”bug” had been killed. Naturally, I was not back to full vigor just yet, but each day, on allicin powder capsules, I felt stronger, healthier and more vigorous. I was back to my full strength and vigor in about ten days, which is about what it would be for anyone. I was astounded at the healing power that allicin apparently contains. I feel like allicin will, in time, prove itself to be, essentially an ”immune system in pill form”, seemingly without any drawbacks, side effects etc. The potential for improved health for humankind could – based on my own personal experience – be enormous, truly staggering.

If allicin could offer this kind of powerful help to someone in my condition, what could it do for people with normal immune systems? Since I’ve started using this product, I have not experienced any other abnormal health problems at all, and I’m not taking any other medicines. I’m now beginning to think that I may be able to ”get my life back”, return to work etc. This – as opposed to thinking that my days were more or less ”numbered”! I now once again do things that I enjoy – with confidence – for I no longer feel afraid to over-exert myself physically, etc. My life has, relatively speaking, ”gone back to normal”. I consider allicin powder capsules to be a medical miracle.


A few weeks later David sent me another letter:

More good news – after years of having ”borderline-high” blood pressure, my last visit to the doctor tells me my blood pressure is ”good”! At first I thought, ”How could that be possible? Why would my blood pressure suddenly be so different?” I think it’s the allicin. I can’t think of any other change in my life that might have lowered my blood pressure to such a degree.
 

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