The HIV virus attacks the immune system and can effectively destroy its ability to fight diseases. When the virus has destroyed too many blood cells, the body succumbs to all sorts of infections and diseases, including pneumonia, herpes, meningitis, tuberculosis, and cancer among others. This is when the HIV infection is refereed to AIDS, and when patients die from complications of the infections, not from the HIV itself.
Although antiretroviral drugs are being used on a worldwide scale to fight HIV and AIDS, the drugs’ effectiveness to permanently suppress the virus are still shaky, as the HIV virus has shown an ability to replicate and mutate to become drug-resistant. The U.S.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicates a number of Homeopathic remedies and herbs such as garlic have shown great promise in curbing the proliferation of the HIV infection and boosting the immune system in fighting AIDS.
A number of studies have found garlic to be effective against the common infections caused by AIDS, including, herpes and mycobacteria, cryptococcus, as well as cryptosporidia and pneumocystis. Garlic has also been shown to obstruct the spread of HIV virus in the AIDS patient.