The benefits and taboos of eating garlic

Garlic is a perennial herb belonging to the Liliaceae family. Its bulbs are edible and are mostly harvested around June. After harvesting, the sand on the surface is removed and it is edible for human consumption and can also be used as medicine after being ventilated and dried. So what are the effects of garlic? What are the taboos when eating it? The following editor will tell you in detail.

The efficacy and contraindications of garlic

1. The efficacy of garlic

Garlic is mild in nature and spicy in taste. It can enter the spleen, stomach and lung meridians. Its main functions are warming the middle, relieving stagnation, detoxifying and killing insects. It is usually used to treat human abdominal pain, tuberculosis, various swellings and snake and insect bites. In addition, garlic has excellent bactericidal effects, can eliminate a variety of bacteria and viruses in the human body, and has a significant preventive effect on human influenza and enteritis.

2. Do not eat garlic when you have diarrhea

In the eyes of many people, garlic has a certain antidiarrheal effect, but here the editor wants to tell you that you cannot eat garlic when you have diarrhea, because people’s diarrhea is mostly caused by eating unclean food. If you eat garlic at this time, it will irritate the intestines, making people’s abdominal pain worse, which is not good for health.

3. Garlic cannot be eaten for a long time

Although garlic is good, it cannot be eaten for a long time because garlic will harden the feces in the human intestines and cause difficulty in defecation. In severe cases, it will cause constipation. In addition, long-term consumption of garlic can kill common bacteria in the human intestines and cause some skin diseases.