1, the health care function of garlic
1. Anticancer
Foreign studies have found that sulfur-containing compounds in garlic can promote the production of an enzyme or a substance called allicin in the intestine, and eliminate the risk of intestinal tumors caused by intestinal substances by enhancing the body's immune ability, blocking the formation of lipid peroxidation and anti-mutation. However, it is still uncertain how many such enzymes need to be produced to effectively play the anti-tumor role of garlic.
In addition, the trace element selenium in garlic also has a certain anti-tumor effect.
Treat impotence
Studies have shown that garlic does have the effect of treating impotence. Garlic is good for blood circulation and is very important for erectile function. The possible explanation is that garlic can stimulate the body to produce nitric oxide synthase, which is an essential enzyme for male erection.
In addition, some researchers found that garlic can stimulate the secretion of male hormones and increase the number of sperm through experiments on rabbits and mice. Modern medicine believes that blood health is an important factor affecting erectile function. Modern people often have problems such as hyperlipidemia due to bad living habits. In a sense, this is the reason why there are more and more patients with erectile dysfunction. Eating garlic can promote blood health, improve blood circulation and improve erectile function.
3. Anti-aging
Some components in garlic have antioxidant and anti-aging properties similar to those of vitamin E and vitamin C.
4. Anti-fatigue
Some people have found that pork is one of the foods rich in vitamin B 1, and the combination of vitamin B 1 and allicin contained in garlic can play a very good role in eliminating fatigue and restoring physical strength.
5. Protect the cardiovascular system
The results of epidemiological research show that in areas where each person eats 20 grams of raw garlic every day, the incidence of death due to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases is significantly lower than that in areas where there is no habit of eating raw garlic.
1) antithrombotic: It is found that the essential oil in garlic can inhibit platelet aggregation and prevent thrombosis.
2) Lowering blood lipid: The clinical research results show that the contents of total cholesterol, triglyceride and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in serum are significantly lower than those before the test after eating 50 grams of raw garlic every day for 6 days.
3) Reduce blood viscosity: Many studies show that smoking and drinking will obviously increase blood viscosity, but if you eat raw garlic at the same time, this adverse effect will be partially offset.
4) Lowering blood pressure: For patients with mild hypertension, if you eat a few cloves of garlic soaked in vinegar every morning and drink two spoonfuls of vinegar juice, your blood pressure will drop after half a month. In addition, patients with hypertension often eat raw garlic, which is also conducive to lowering blood pressure.
disinfect
Garlic is a natural broad-spectrum antibiotic in plants. Garlic contains about 2% allicin, which has a strong bactericidal effect. After entering the human body, it can react with cystine of bacteria to produce crystal precipitation, which destroys sulfhydryl groups in thioamino organisms necessary for bacteria, and makes bacteria metabolize disorder, thus failing to reproduce and grow.
The bactericidal ability of garlic is110 of penicillin, and it has obvious inhibitory or strangulation effects on staphylococcus, meningitis, pneumonia, streptococcus, diphtheria, dysentery, typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever, tuberculosis, Vibrio cholerae and other pathogenic bacteria.
In addition, it can kill hookworm, pinworm, trichomonas and other pathogenic fungi and parasites. Therefore, eating garlic raw is an effective way to prevent influenza and intestinal infection. However, it should be noted that allicin is easily destroyed at high temperature and loses its bactericidal effect.
7. Improve sugar metabolism
Studies have confirmed that eating raw garlic can improve the glucose tolerance of normal people, at the same time, it can also promote the secretion of insulin, increase the utilization of glucose by tissues and cells, and thus reduce the blood sugar level.
8. disgust
Eating garlic raw every day can reduce the degree of allergic reactions, especially those caused by temperature changes. The best way is to start eating garlic raw a few weeks before the allergy season.
2. Who shouldn't eat garlic?
1. Eye patients
Chinese medicine believes that eating garlic in large quantities for a long time will "hurt the liver and hurt the eyes." Therefore, patients with eye diseases should try not to eat garlic, especially those with poor health and weak qi and blood. Otherwise, after a long time, their eyesight will decline, tinnitus, top-heavy and memory will decline. Some people suffer from myopia or other eye diseases and need to take Chinese medicine for treatment. At this time, they must avoid eating, otherwise it will directly affect the curative effect.
2. Weakness and fever
The ancients thought that eating more garlic would dissipate people's qi and blood, and Materia Medica from the New recorded that "garlic is pungent and toxic, causing phlegm burning, dispersing qi and consuming blood, and it is not suitable for those who are weak and hot to touch their lips". Therefore, people with poor health and weak qi and blood should pay attention.
3. Patients with liver disease
Many people think that garlic can resist bacteria and viruses, so they eat garlic to prevent hepatitis. Some people even eat garlic every day after suffering from hepatitis. This practice is extremely unfavorable to hepatitis patients, because garlic has no effect on hepatitis virus. On the contrary, some components of garlic can stimulate the gastrointestinal tract, inhibit the secretion of intestinal digestive juice and affect food digestion, thus aggravating many symptoms such as nausea of hepatitis patients. In addition, the volatile components of garlic can reduce red blood cells and hemoglobin in blood, and may cause anemia, which is not conducive to the treatment of hepatitis.
4. Patients with diarrhea due to spleen deficiency
Raw garlic is very exciting. Eating less in peacetime can promote digestion. However, if you eat garlic when suffering from non-bacterial enteritis or diarrhea, strong stimulation will aggravate the congestion and edema of intestinal mucosa, promote exudation and aggravate the condition.
5. Seriously ill patients should eat carefully.
Garlic hair, so-called hair, refers to foods that are particularly prone to induce certain diseases or aggravate diseases that have already occurred. Eating spicy food such as garlic and pepper is likely to have obvious side effects for people who are seriously ill or taking drugs, which will not only cause old diseases, but also make drugs ineffective or have a chain reaction with drugs, affecting their health.
3. Warm reminder
Because garlic is afraid of heat and salt, heat or salt will completely or partially lose its activity. So garlic should be eaten raw, mashed or cut into pieces.
4. The harm of eating too much garlic
(1) Kill beneficial bacteria
Eating too much garlic will also kill the beneficial bacteria in our body, so it will do some harm to our health, so we should also eat less garlic and try to control the daily intake of garlic.
(2) Anemia
Eating too much garlic can also cause or lead to anemia. Some elements in garlic can reduce the content of red blood cells and hemoglobin in our body, thus causing anemia, so people with anemia should try not to eat garlic.
(3) causing stomach pain
Eating too much garlic will also cause harm to our gastric mucosa, leading to uncomfortable feelings such as stomach pain and abdominal pain, so don't eat too much garlic.
(4) Tinnitus and deafness
Patients with eye diseases should try to eat less or not to eat garlic, because eating too much garlic will aggravate eye diseases and lead to tinnitus, deafness and other symptoms, so patients with eye diseases should try to eat less or not to eat garlic.
(5) liver disease is aggravated.
Patients with liver disease should try to eat less or not to eat garlic, because garlic can not only kill the virus of liver disease, but also aggravate the condition, so patients with liver disease should try to eat less or not to eat garlic.