Allicin - 24 cloves of Garlic a day, MRSA Superbug killer.

The ingredient which gives garlic its distinctive smell is the latest weapon in the battle to beat the hospital "superbug" MRSA.
University of East London researchers found allicin treated even the most antibiotic-resistant strains of the infection.

MRSA (Methecillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) causes an estimated 2,000 deaths in UK hospitals each year.

Researchers are now testing allicin products in a six-month study.

Dr Ron Cutler and his team discovered the effectiveness of allicin in laboratory tests five years ago.

They found it can cure MRSA within weeks.

It is even effective against the newer strains which cannot be treated by the "last line of defence" antibiotics Vancomycin and Glycopeptides.

Fatal infections

The team have developed a nasal cream, pills and soaps.

The effect of the treatment was dramatic

Deborah Brown, patient
Initial trials have proved effective, so researchers will now test them in a six-month study of 200 volunteers including healthcare workers and patients.

The scientists hope the products will be used by people working in hospitals so they can prevent MRSA being passed on to patients, as well as the patients themselves.

MRSA organisms can live harmlessly in humans, carried in the nasal passages and on the skin, but they can cause fatal infections in immune-suppressed patients, the elderly, the young and those with surgical implants.

Dr Cutler told BBC News Online: "My aim would be to firstly work to try and reduce the carriage of MRSA amongst healthcare workers.

"But we would also hope to use allicin treatments for patients themselves."

He added: "The trials we have conducted so far show that this formulation is highly effective against MRSA, and it could save many lives.

"MRSA is causing a genuine crisis in our hospital system in Britain and worldwide. Antibiotics are increasingly ineffective, but we do have a powerful natural ally.

"Plant compounds have evolved over millions of years as chemical defence agents against infection.

"Garlic has been used in medicine for centuries, and it should be no surprise that it is effective against this very modern infection."

Garlic's health benefits are truly legendary, but only now, in the 21st century, has it's potential to conquer modern-day health challenges been revealed. At long last, after 80 years of trying to release the "mother substance," the allicin molecule is now available to assist mankind, where modern medicine is failing us. Over the past 20 years, many compounds that are formed from allicin as it degrades have been isolated, characterized and experimented upon. An enormous amount of research has been published on the properties of these breakdown components that are formed when fresh garlic is cut, crushed, chopped or processed. Of these well-known and categorized sulfur-containing components, it's allicin, itself, that stands heads and shoulders above the rest, exhibiting the most exciting, the most interesting, and the most beneficial properties. It's not just coincidental that this amazing compound contains exactly the same reactive sulfur group that sulfa drugs, the very first antibiotic, contained back in the 1930s.

Now, with the advent of exciting new technology, for the first time ever, it's possible to produce stabilized allicin on a commercial scale. This sophisticated refinement process takes the finest raw garlic bulbs, and formulates allicin liquid which is carefully spray-dried to produce allicin powder. Now, you can receive all of the wonderful benefits of garlic, concentrated, and without the negative side effects of odor and taste. This has, in turn, led to even more research, confirming the most incredible spectrum of activity against today's most pressing health challenges. These include, but are not limited to, multiple drug resistant and flesh-eating bacteria; viral and fungal infections; environmental toxicity; and microorganisms that have long been the scourge of modern man. Even low concentrations of allicin have been shown to kill tuberculosis, smallpox, and bacteria that cause food poisoning; pneumonia, meningitis, peptic ulcers, bubonic plague, toxic shock syndrome, and many more threats to your health.
Allicin has been referred to as "Mother Nature's defender," "The Heart of Garlic," which happens to be the name of a recent book by Peter Josling, Director of the Garlic Centre in East Sussex, United Kingdom, and more recently, "Nature's Antibiotic."