From The Kitchen tothe Medication-Role of Garlic in Oral and Systemic Health

The trend of these days is to combat various diseases using complementary and alternative healing mechanisms.Dental or oral diseases are being found to be effectively managed by these modalities.Phytotherapy or use of herbs and medicinal plants is in the forefront.Many of the ingredients in our food,the ones that we see in the kitchen like garlic,ginger,turmeric,cloveetc has found to have immense health benefits.This review focus on the use of Garlic against oral and systemic pathogens