The efficacy and function of garlic

Many people love to eat garlic, especially friends in Shandong and Northeast China. Let us understand the effects of garlic.

Garlic Benefits:

It has the effects of warming the middle and promoting digestion, promoting the flow of stagnant qi, warming the spleen and stomach, eliminating accumulation, detoxifying and killing insects; it is mainly used to treat food stagnation, cold pain in the abdomen, edema, diarrhea, dysentery, malaria, whooping cough, carbuncle, white baldness, ringworm, snake and insect bites, as well as hookworms and pinworms.

Garlic effects:

1. Antibacterial and anti-inflammatory Garlic is a natural plant broad-spectrum antibiotic. Garlic contains about 2% of allicin, which has a bactericidal ability of 1/10 of penicillin. It has a significant inhibitory and killing effect on a variety of pathogenic bacteria such as staphylococci, meningitis, pneumonia, streptococci, diphtheria, dysentery, typhoid, paratyphoid, tuberculosis and Vibrio cholerae. It can also kill more pathogenic fungi and hookworms, pinworms, and trichomonas. Eating raw garlic is an effective way to prevent influenza and intestinal infections. However, it should be noted that allicin is easily destroyed at high temperatures and loses its bactericidal effect.

2. Anti-cancer The sulfur compounds in garlic mainly act on the "start-up stage" of tumorigenesis, by enhancing detoxification function, interfering with the activation of carcinogens, preventing cancer formation, enhancing immune function, blocking lipid peroxidation formation and anti-mutation, and other ways to prevent normal cells from transforming into cancer cells. The trace element selenium contained in garlic can kill cancer cells and reduce the incidence of cancer.

3. Anti-platelet aggregation Garlic essential oil has the effect of inhibiting platelet aggregation. Its mechanism is to change the physical and chemical properties of the platelet membrane, thereby affecting the platelet's pickup and release function, inhibiting the fibrinogen receptors on the platelet membrane, inhibiting the binding of platelets to fibrinogen, affecting the sulfur groups on the platelet membrane, and changing the platelet function.

4. Lowering blood lipids According to epidemiological surveys, the mortality rate of cardiovascular diseases in areas where people eat 20 grams of garlic per day is significantly lower than that in areas where people do not have the habit of eating raw garlic. Researchers tested 50 people in Laoshan County and asked them to eat 50 grams of raw garlic every day. After 6 days, the levels of total cholesterol, triglycerides and l3 lipoprotein in serum were significantly lower than before the experiment. Regular consumption of raw garlic also has a blood pressure-lowering effect.

5. Experiments on lowering blood sugar have shown that eating raw garlic can improve the glucose tolerance of normal people, promote the secretion of insulin and increase the utilization of glucose by tissue cells, thereby lowering blood sugar.

6. It can make the blood thinner. Smoking and drinking can make the blood thicker. If you eat some garlic at the same time, it will balance and dilute the blood. It also has antioxidant properties similar to vitamin E and vitamin C.

7. Lower blood pressure: Hypertensive patients can eat a few cloves of garlic soaked in vinegar and drink two tablespoons of vinegar juice every morning. Eating it for half a month will have obvious effects on hypertensive patients.

8. Lowering cholesterol Garlic with egg yolk can inhibit the aging of blood vessels and skin. The lecithin in egg yolk can remove cholesterol adhering to the blood vessel wall, which plays a role in lowering cholesterol. In addition, egg yolk is rich in vitamin E, which can inhibit active oxygen and slow down the aging of blood vessels and skin; and garlic can promote blood circulation. This combination can not only have a better anti-aging effect, but also has a good effect on the treatment of cold fear and even beauty. For those who don't like the pungent smell of garlic, garlic fried egg yolk is a good choice. It is made by mixing egg yolk into mashed garlic and then frying it slowly over a low heat. It has no pungent smell and will not cause strong irritation to the stomach.

9. Eliminate fatigue and restore physical strength Garlic and pork are a good way to eat. Pork is one of the foods richest in vitamin B1. Vitamin B1 combined with allicin contained in garlic can eliminate fatigue and restore physical strength.

10. Make blood flow smoothly. Eating garlic with herring can make blood flow smoothly. Garlic can promote the digestion of protein in fish. Pomfret, saury and herring are rich in unsaturated fatty acids, which have obvious effects on lowering cholesterol, coagulating platelets and dissolving blood clots. Eating them with garlic can help blood flow smoothly.

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It should be noted that garlic should be eaten raw. It is best to mash garlic into a paste rather than chop it into small pieces. It should also be left in the air for 10 to 15 minutes to allow alliin and allinase to combine in the air to produce allicin before consumption.

At the same time, we should also pay attention to the amount of garlic. It is not the case that the more you eat, the better. Eating too much garlic will affect the absorption of vitamin B. Eating a lot of garlic can also irritate the eyes and easily cause blepharitis and conjunctivitis. In addition, garlic should not be eaten on an empty stomach. Patients with gastric ulcers and those suffering from headaches, coughs, toothaches and other diseases should not eat garlic. It is enough to eat 2 to 3 cloves once a day or every other day.

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