How does such amazingly moronic material gain access to MEDLINE indexed so called peer reviewed journals? I wonder. So Mustafa Capraz et alia gave 75 patients either placebo, a single clove of garlic or 12 little garlic pills. They took a baseline BP before and measured BP again 1 HOUR after garlic administration. Nothing changed. Really! Duh. SO garlic maybe should not be used in cardiac ICU as a hypotensive drug? Or more to the point, one might recommend that local cardiac patients best look for another cardiac facility than the one that Mustafa and his merry men work at……meanwhile you have been warned. Get educated.
Capraz M, Dilek M, Akpolat TInt J Cardiol. 2007 Sep 14;121(1):130-1
The aims of this study are to investigate the frequency of garlic usage in hypertensive population and to evaluate acute effect of garlic and garlic tablets on blood pressure in patients with hypertension. 4102 of the 7703 patients (53.3%) reported that they were using garlic. No significant effect on blood pressure was observed in any of the three groups (placebo, garlic or garlic tablets). Use of garlic is common among the hypertensive population, garlic and garlic tablets do not have acute blood pressure lowering effect, and a special education program informing patients and public about garlic is required.
