Garlic tincture to reduce cholesterol used in Holguín

Garlic tincture used to reduce cholesterol in diabetic patients in Holguín is a proof that phytotherapy is one of the many ways to treat such annoying disease.

As it is an ailment with a high prevalence in the territory, young cardiologist José Leandro Pérez Guerrero, from Vladimir Ilich Lenin teaching hospital, has investigated about the use of this natural product in the treatment of hypercholesterolemia, the medical term that means a rise on the level of cholesterol in the blood.

In order to accomplish this goal, he started from a study made at the doctor’s office #7, from Máximo Gómez Báez teaching policlinic, in the city of Holguín; where blood samples were taken before and afterwards the prescription of garlic tincture.

Cholesterol, José Leandro Pérez Guerrero

According to the first degree specialist in Cardiology, garlic tincture as a natural product intervenes through lysine, its active metabolite, and directly interferes with lipid metabolism. As a result, the reduction of these parameters can be seen.

After the use of garlic tincture, 82,86 per cent of the patients had a reduction to minimum doses of the pharmacological treatment, besides, it was observed that before the treatment the experimental group had the cholesterol values high, but after they had been treated with this natural product they values dropped down to normal levels. Thus an evidence of the effectiveness of garlic tincture for the reduction of cholesterol in blood.

The idea of deepening about the properties of this phytopharmaceutical emerged as a research while studying Medicine, a line he went o non postgrade courses, especially on the attention of patients with cardiovascular sufferings.

How to use this medicine

In order to reduce the levels of cholesterol it is said to dilute 0.5 ml of garlic tincture in 100 ml of water to take three spoonfuls three times a day, before meals.

The patient should be taking garlic tincture for two, three or months, in accordance with the reduction of the parameters of cholesterol or triglycerides.

This product, that is sold over the counter on the drugstores in town, is produced in the provincial centers for the production de phytopharmaceuticals.

In medical practice, multiple properties of garlic have been demonstrated, among which it stands out as being protective of small vessels, antifungal, expectorant, to treat asthma and for atherosclerosis.

As on the latter ailment, the medical bibliography, says garlic is protector for its capacity of reducing the content of lipids on the pared arterial, by lowering down the hepatic activity on the enzymes and increase the excretion of cholesterol.

For such a reason, the people’s interest on this product has grown, as well as on the medical community.

Such evidences have taken to the prescription of phytopharmaceuticals; it is important to say this is done at all levels of medical attention; something that is possible thanks to the training the health personnel of Máximo Gómez Báez policlinic has achieved in this field, aimed at improving the use of this therapeutic option.

In Cuba, cardiovascular diseases stand as the first cause of death, and where Holguín province saw a similar behavior at the close of 2022.