Smelly garlic: A lung tonic?
By Janet Raloff
From San Diego, at the Experimental Biology 2005 meeting
Many people suffer from acute pulmonary hypertension, where blood pressure is selectively elevated in the lungs. The potentially lethal condition can make the right side of the heart work too hard and thus lead to heart failure. This particular form of high blood pressure might be prevented by a daily downing of two cloves of fresh garlic or its powdered equivalent, a new study in rats suggests.