date:Jun 27, 2013
Garlic has been widely used as food and medicine for many centuries throughout the world, and now new research published in the Journal of Food Science suggests garlic oil reduced the decrease of white blood cells affected by chemotherapy and radiation treatment in mice with cancerous tumors.
Demand has grown recently to find more natural ways to reduce the adverse effects of the two major methods for cancer treatment, ionizing radiation and chemotherapy. The findings support the idea that canc