Whether or not garlic tastes good is up to you to decide, but believe it or not, garlic may turn out to be a viable treatment for fibromyalgia. Garlic contains antibiotic properties, which is the reason it could be a good treatment plan.
There is so much that even the top scientists of the world don’t yet know about fibromyalgia. For one thing, we don’t even know what causes it! Theories for the cause of fibromyalgia range from an impediment in the relationship between nerves and the brain to a bacterial or virus infection. If the cause of fibromyalgia is a bacterial or virus infection, then garlic could potentially be a treatment or possible cure for the cause of fibromyalgia. Pretty cool, right?
If there’s an immediate downside to eating garlic, we might as well bring it up early on: it’s no secret that raw garlic can cause bad breath when consumed. But then again, there’s a downside to everything.
If you opt for garlic as one of your treatment plans for fibromyalgia, be sure to brush your teeth very thoroughly afterward! Yes, it’s a pain, but considering the very strong evidence we’ll look at that suggests garlic can block and kill inflammation, you’ll probably end up thinking that it’s well worth the trade off.
That being said, here is why garlic could be a viable treatment option for the symptoms of fibromyalgia:
Inflammation
One of the primary symptoms of fibromyalgia is suffering from fatigue, and a major reason why a person may feel fatigued is due to the pro-inflammatory cytokines present in the body. Cytokines, by definition, are proteins that are excreted by the immune system’s cells.
Further scientific research has yielded the information that fibromyalgia patients suffer very similar inflammation as other chronic fatigue patients. Therefore, the obvious treatment medication would be anti-inflammatory drugs, or any therapy procedure that could keep inflammation down for that matter.
Unfortunately, many of the known anti-inflammatory drugs will keep inflammation down as they intended for, but also be hard on the digestive system. This is simply not worth the risk of taking the drugs.
This is where garlic comes in. Garlic has much of the same anti-inflammatory properties as the medical drugs do, but in addition, it also prevents the infections and viruses that can be hard on the digestive system with the drugs. Beyond this, garlic has also been found to have a very good effect on the heart. For these reasons, garlic is something you, as a fibromyalgia patient, should pursue.
Therapy Procedures
You probably never would have guessed that there ever was such a thing as ‘garlic therapy,’ but there definitely is. It’s also a therapy that you can use on your own at home with common recipes. For the procedure of garlic therapy, select fresh garlic in its natural form.
Look for recipes that use a lot of garlic as the common ingredient. If doable, look for recipes where the garlic will be kept as fresh as possible after the recipe is completed. Eat up on your completed recipes and you should see the chronic pain from inflammation go down in time.
Have you ever given consideration to growing garlic on your own? Garlic is incredibly easy to grow, and homegrown garlic may end up being better to control your inflammation than store bought garlic.
If you’re really that opposed to garlic due to its taste and/or smell, no worries! There are garlic supplements available that come completely odorless and sometimes even tasteless. If you do buy a supplement that has the same taste and smell as real garlic, you really won’t have gained anything. The taste and smell will still be with you. Besides, poor taste or smell is a very small price to pay for something that can control your inflammation. Who could complain?
Overall Benefits of Garlic
Because garlic can reduce inflammation, it is therefore used as a treatment method for a variety of other illnesses and conditions as well. Asthma and arthritis are just two of the conditions that can also be helped with garlic. We’ve already explored chronic fatigue symptoms that can be greatly diminished with the aid of garlic.
As far as the science of everything is concerned, it was thought for years that inflammation had nothing to do with fibromyalgia. But new evidence reveals a different side of the story. Hence, garlic can help fibromyalgia.
Additional conditions that garlic can help control are the common cold, viruses in the stomach and digestive system, botulism, Candida, the flu, and even tuberculosis. The reasons why garlic is not only good to keep down inflammation but also to prevent the onset of bad effects on your digestive system, is because instead of fighting the viruses that would have dealt that damage, they instead make the body a good host for those viruses, therefore turning something bad into something good. It’s believed that for this same reason, garlic may also have good effects on preventing cancer.
Including plenty of garlic in your diet is essential to living a healthier and more productive life if inflammation is the problem. Remember to use fresh garlic whenever possible, and to avoid garlic powder. There is information all over the internet and in recipe cook books to explain how garlic can be used in cooking recipes so that it maintains its freshness.
Don’t be lazy and grab the garlic from the store that’s in powdered often.The fresh stuff is what works, so set a goal of making it a habit to only buy the fresh, natural form of garlic when you head to the grocery store. You can also always consider investing in putting together a vegetable garden indoors or outdoors, and including some onion bulbs in that garden.
Further reading:
Garlic For Fibromyalgia: http://www.fibromyalgia-symptoms.org/hold-your-breath.html
Eat Raw Garlic for Fibromyalgia: http://www.yourfibrosupport.com/fibro-relief-blog/eat-raw-garlic-for-fibromyalgia
Garlic for Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: http://chronicfatigue.about.com/b/2010/07/29/garlic-for-fibromyalgia-chronic-fatigue-syndrome.htm
Home Remedies for Fibromyalgia: https://www.organicfacts.net/home-remedies/home-remedies-for-fibromyalgia.html
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