1.1 Introduction
Garlic (Allium sativum) is a medicinal plant mainly used as condiments and for stopping in different cooking (Nabeel, 2014). The use of higher plants and their extracts to treat infections is an ancient practice in traditional medicine. Many plants have been used because of their antimicrobial treats, which are chiefly synthesis during secondary metabolism of the plants. The herbal medicine may be in the form of powders, liquid or mixtures which may be row or boiled, ointments linings and incision (Jehan et al., 2011). Traditional medicine is the sum total of knowledge skills and practices based on theories, beliefs and experiences indigenous to different cultural that are used to maintain health, as well as to prevent, diagnose, improve or matters. This plant is multiplied by vegetative reproduction rather than by sexual reproduction (seed). Individual garlic cloves are planted and they each produce a bulb in which the cloves all have the same genetic makeup as the original clove (Paul, 2010).
As a prelude to other parts of this study, this chapter will discuss the background upon which this study was initiated, the statement of problems that led to this study, the Aim and Objectives of the study. Others are Significance of the study, Scope of work, Limitations of the Study and Definition of technical terms.
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