Benefits of eating garlic:
Antiseptic and anti-inflammatory: it is on the epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis virus, influenza virus, encephalitis B virus, hepatitis viruses, the new type of cryptococcus that can lead to severe meningitis, diplococcus pneumoniae, Candida, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever bacillus, amebae protozoa, Trichomonas vaginalis, Rickettsia, Staphylococcus, dysentery bacillus, Vibrio cholerae and many other pathogenic microorganisms have a killing effect.
? Cancer prevention: Garlic can block the synthesis of carcinogenic substances --- nitrosamines, inhibit the growth of cancer cells, cancer cells have a killing effect. Garlic is rich in selenium, which can accelerate the decomposition of peroxides in the body and reduce the supply of oxygen needed by malignant tumors, thus inhibiting cancer cells. Scientists believe that garlic has a preventive effect on leukemia, oral cancer, esophageal cancer, gastric cancer, breast cancer, ovarian cancer and so on.
? Prevention of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases : Scientists give garlic another nickname is "vascular scavenger", researchers found that long-term eaters of garlic in the inner wall of the blood vessels of the people do not eat a lot of deposition than to eat people to be much lighter. Vascular wall deposition is a major cause of cardiovascular disease, over time will make the arteries clogged, less elastic, causing stroke or myocardial infarction. Garlic can also reduce blood lipids and blood viscosity, anti-platelet aggregation, so that the risk of heart disease, cerebral thrombosis and cerebral hemorrhage attack is greatly reduced.
? Promote hair growth: Garlic contains volatile oils that accelerate blood flow to the sebaceous glands and hair follicles, thus promoting hair growth, and also has a therapeutic effect on baldness. Applying garlic paste to the scalp can improve hair growth and eliminate dandruff. It also relieves the dryness of the hair if you add the same amount of vegetable oil to the head.
? Enhance immune function: Animal experiments have shown that the fat-soluble volatile oil in garlic can significantly improve the phagocytosis function of macrophages, and has the effect of enhancing the immune system.
? Anti-aging: Garlic contains protein, fat, sugar, vitamins and minerals, with the prevention of vascular aging, immune decline and other effects.
? : Garlic in the composition and the body of vitamin B1 can produce "garlic amine", this garlic amine can promote and play the role of vitamin B1, enhance the carbohydrate oxidation energy supply, for brain cells to provide enough energy, so that the thinking of the agile.
The bad side of eating garlic:
liver disease patients should not eat: many people believe that garlic can be antibacterial and antiviral, and then eat garlic to prevent hepatitis, and even some people still eat garlic every day after suffering from hepatitis. This practice is extremely unfavorable to hepatitis patients, because garlic has little effect on the hepatitis virus, on the contrary, some components of garlic on the stomach, intestines and stimulation, can inhibit the secretion of intestinal digestive juices, affecting the digestion of food, thereby aggravating the nausea of patients with hepatitis and many other symptoms. In addition, the volatile components of garlic can make the blood of red blood cells and hemoglobin, and may cause anemia, is not conducive to the treatment of hepatitis.
? Non-bacterial diarrhea should not be eaten : the occurrence of non-bacterial enteritis, diarrhea, should not eat garlic raw. Because the intestinal local mucosal tissue has inflammation, the intestinal wall itself vasodilatation, congestion, swelling, increased permeability, the body organizes a large number of proteins and potassium, sodium, calcium, chlorine and other electrolytes as well as liquid infiltration into the intestinal lumen, a large amount of liquid stimulation of the intestinal tract, so that intestinal peristalsis accelerated, and thus abdominal pain, diarrhea and other symptoms. If you then eat raw garlic, the pungent flavor of allicin will stimulate the intestinal tract, making the intestinal mucosa congestion, edema aggravated, promoting exudation, worsening the condition. If diarrhea has occurred, the consumption of garlic should be more cautious.
? Eye patients should not eat : Chinese medicine believes that long-term consumption of large quantities of garlic will "hurt the liver loss of eyes", therefore, eye patients should try not to eat garlic, especially the body is poor, weak patients should pay more attention to the qi and blood, or else there will be a long time vision loss, tinnitus, light-headedness, memory loss and other phenomena. Some people suffer from myopia or other eye diseases, need to take traditional Chinese medicine treatment, then we must abstain from food, or directly affect the efficacy. Eat a lot of garlic in the summer and fall, the biggest impact on the eye.