Garlic has always been a frequent visitor on people's table, and it also has the reputation of "natural broad-spectrum antibiotics". Peel a few petals before eating and put a few petals when cooking. They are all delicious.
In fact, garlic is not only used as seasoning, but also has many health-preserving effects, which is also very good for preventing and treating diseases.
Garlic steamed water can effectively relieve cough.
Chinese medicine believes that garlic is warm and enters the lung meridian, which can dispel cold evil. Rock sugar has the functions of moistening lung, relieving cough and resolving phlegm. Therefore, people will choose to use garlic and crystal sugar to steam water to treat cough caused by wind-cold cold (manifested as coughing up white and thin sputum, coughing when catching a cold, and slightly relieved after drinking hot water).
However, if the patient's cough belongs to lung heat (manifested as yellow and thick cough phlegm or accompanied by sore throat, yellow tongue coating and bad breath), garlic can not only stop cough, but even lead to aggravation of cough.
Recipe: garlic steamed water
Ingredients: 5~6 cloves of garlic (2~3 cloves for children) and one piece of rock sugar.
Method: flatten, chop or slice garlic with a knife, put it in a bowl with crystal sugar, add water to two-thirds of the height of the bowl, put it in a pot and cook it, then steam it with low fire 15 minutes.
"15 minutes" is the key.
After steaming 15 minutes, the garlic is half cooked.
On the one hand, it still has the pungent and hot medicinal properties of raw garlic, but its medicinal properties have become "mild" and not too irritating, which can spread the lung, dispel cold and relieve cough.
On the other hand, it has the sweet and warm medicinal properties of cooked garlic, which can warm the middle and remove cold and dampness from the spleen and stomach.
Garlic cures cough, and there is a difference between north and south.
The climate and environment in different regions have caused the difference of human physique. Southerners are prone to sweating and loss of body fluid because of the hot climate, or internal heat transpiration consumes body fluid, resulting in less loss of body fluid, body fluid and blood, so southerners are mostly yin deficiency.
On the contrary, the cold climate in the north is not easy to damage water and liquid, but cold is easy to damage people's yang, so northerners show yang deficiency constitution.
In this way, generally speaking, northerners may have more opportunities to treat cough with garlic and the effect may be better.