[Some naturopath websites](http://www.digitalnaturopath.com/treat/T22977.html) claim that garlic is incredibly good for you:

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The article goes on to claim it prevents cancer, blod clots and infections too.

Is this really true? I'm rather suspicious of that article for a number of reasons, including:

* The studies it quotes are from the 80's, where it quotes any at all - a lot of the time it just refers to "lots of scientific studies" or "most scientific studies" without referencing anything in particular.
* If the health benefits were really that irrevocably provable, surely we'd have seen more of a use of the substance by now?

I'm pretty sure that at the very least, the article is exaggerating. But I'm wondering if there *are* valid medicinal uses for garlic, or such claims are just completely bogus.