| Disease | IN A SERIES OF 29 PATIENTS COMPLAINING OF HEAVINESS AFTER EATING,BELCHING,GAS COLIC,FLATULENCE AND NAUSEA,TWO GARLIC TABLETS (0.64 GM) WERE GIVEN TWICE DAILY AFTER LUNCH AND DINNER FOR A PERIOD OF TWO WEEKS.
A CLINICAL INVESTIGATION OF DEHYDRATED GARLIC SHOWED THIS CARMINATIVE TO BE HIGHLY EFFECTIVE FOR RELIEF OF HEAVINESS AFTER EATING(EPIGASTRIC AND ABDOMINAL DISTRESS),BELCHING,FLATULENCE,GAS COLIC AND NAUSEA.
SATISFACTORY THERAPEUTIC RESULTS WERE OBTAINED IN CASES OF FLATULENT DYSPEPSIA, NERVOUS DYSPEPSIA AND OTHER GASTRIC NEUROSES.
ROENTGENOGRAPHICALLY A COMPARISON OF FILMS WITH AND WITHOUT THE MEDICATION SHOWED THAT DEHYDRATED GARLIC HAS A SEDATIVE EFFECT ON THE STOMACH AND INTESTINES, RELAXES SPASMS, RETARDS HYPERPERISTALSIS AND DISPERSES ACCUMULATION OF GAS.
IT IS BELIEVED THAT THESE STUDIES EXPLAIN THE CARMINATIVE ACTION OF GARLIC AS DUE TO UNIDENTIFIED PRINCIPLES THAT HAVE BEEN DESIGNATED AS GASTROENTERIC ALLICHALCONE.
SINCE DEHYDRATED GARLIC TABLETS ARE SAFE FOR LONG CONTINUED USE, THEY MAY BE INDICATED IN A WIDE VARIETY OF FUNCTIONAL DISTURBANCES OF THE STOMACH AND INTESTINES. |