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@MISC{Pazyar_[dermatologyreports,
author = {Nader Pazyar},
title = {[Dermatology Reports 2011; 3:e4] [page 5] Garlic in dermatology},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
Garlic (Allium sativum L. fam. Alliaceae) is one of the best-researched, best-selling herbal remedies and is also commonly used for treat-ing various health problems. Garlic is widely known for its biological properties and plays an important role as an antioxidant. The purpose of this review is to gather and summarize all dermatologic-oriented in vitro and in-vivo experiments and clinical trials on garlic prepa-rations. Extensive literatures search was car-ried out and twenty three studies were includ-ed. The results suggest that oral administra-tion of garlic is effective on immunologic prop-erties, cutaneous microcirculation, protection against UVB and cancer treatment. Additio-nally, topical application of garlic extract can potentially be effective on psoriasis, alopecia areata, keloid scar, wound healing, cutaneous corn, viral and fungal infection, leishmaniasis, skin aging and rejuvenation. Clinical effective-ness of oral and topical garlic extract is not suf-ficiently and meticulously explored as so far.
Keyphrases
dermatology report e4 page important role oral administra-tion garlic extract alopecia areata cutaneous corn clinical trial treat-ing various health problem topical garlic extract clinical effective-ness cancer treatment garlic prepa-rations immunologic prop-erties keloid scar in-vivo experiment biological property topical application cutaneous microcirculation best-selling herbal remedy fungal infection extensive literature search
