Allicin is the major active sulfur-containing moiety that is released when garlic cloves are crushed or damaged. Since its first recorded use in ancient times to ward off snakebites and by the physician Hippocrates to treat pneumonia and heal wounds, allicin has come a long way and its attributes now include antimicrobial and anti-insecticidal activities. Given the rapid appearance of resistant microbes and insects, allicin clearly has merit in these spheres, even more so as resistance does not appear following its usage. More recently allicin has been successfully used as a complementary...

Developed nations have always reported that a large percentage of the population suffer from mood imbalance and associated insomnia, which may be sporadic or chronic. Recent data has suggested that the isolation and anxiety created by the COVID-19 pandemic and its continued persistence have worsened conditions for existing sufferers and created millions of new patients. Indeed, this upward trend is now of extreme global concern with depression and anxiety tripling to nearly 80 million cases. Numbers of patients attempting suicide are also at an all-time high with a 50% increase in cases,...