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What are the benefits of onion, ginger and garlic to human health?
Ginger is warm and pungent, and contains oily volatiles such as gingerol, as well as gingerol, vitamins, gingerol, resin, starch, fiber and a small amount of minerals. It can enhance blood circulation, stimulate gastric juice secretion, excite intestines, promote digestion, strengthen stomach and stimulate appetite. In addition, ginger can also kill bacteria in the mouth and intestines to achieve the purpose of cleaning the mouth. In hot summer, eating ginger can also play the role of sweating, cooling and refreshing, and can relieve fatigue, fatigue, anorexia, insomnia, abdominal distension and abdominal pain. Therefore, there is a proverb in China, "Eat radish in winter and ginger in summer, without a doctor's prescription". It is worth noting that although ginger is good, patients with yin deficiency and internal heat and hemorrhoids should avoid eating.

Garlic can resist virus. Garlic is warm and pungent, and contains nutrients such as protein, fat, sugar, B vitamins and vitamin C, as well as organic compounds of sulfur and selenium (allicin) and various active enzymes. In addition, it is rich in calcium, phosphorus, iron and other elements. It has the functions of killing insects, detoxicating, promoting digestion, promoting circulation of qi, warming the stomach, etc., and has certain therapeutic effects on dyspepsia, epigastric cold pain, dysentery, malaria, whooping cough, carbuncle, insect and snake bites, etc. In addition, eating garlic can also prevent influenza, treat mold infection, and have the effects of lowering blood pressure, blood lipid and blood sugar, which has a strong anti-cancer effect. It is one of the most effective plant antibiotics known at present, and has the reputation of "penicillin growing underground", but it is not suitable for patients with yin deficiency and excessive fire, diarrhea, hemorrhoids, gastrointestinal bleeding and eye diseases.