Kitchen to Clinic: Garlic as a Cancer Fighting Spice

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Nature has given us remarkable opportunity to fight against diseases. Garlic has played an important dietary and medicinal agent throughout the history of mankind [1]. Garlic, Allium sativum is a member of the Alliaceae family has been widely recognized as a valuable spice and a popular remedy for various ailments and physiological disorders [1]. Allium is the most crucial representative genus of the Alliaceae group and comprises of 450 different species. These are randomly distributed in the northern hemisphere [2].