It has a strong killing effect on dysentery, typhoid, staphylococci, streptococci, etc. 10 and amoeba.
It has been tried that chewing a small clove of garlic in your mouth can kill all the bacteria in your mouth. Pouring garlic into a drop of raw water containing many kinds of bacteria will kill all the bacteria within 1 minute. Generally, purple garlic or single garlic is better.
Garlic and its preparation are commonly used in clinic to treat bacillary dysentery, amebic dysentery, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, lobar pneumonia, Japanese encephalitis, whooping cough, diphtheria, tuberculosis, suppurative soft tissue infection, chronic suppurative otitis media and so on.
It can also be used for preventing and treating influenza, icteric infectious hepatitis, trachoma, etc.
Pharmacological research reports that garlic can reduce the levels of total cholesterol and triglyceride, inhibit platelet aggregation, dissolve thrombus in vivo, significantly improve the activity of serum fibrin, and has the functions of anti-atherosclerosis, preventing coronary artery embolism and cerebral thrombosis.
Nitrite is the precursor of nitrosamine, a carcinogen.
Studies have shown that garlic can block the synthesis of endogenous nitrosamines by inhibiting molds and bacteria, and it is also found that sulfur-containing compounds in garlic are effective components for scavenging nitrite and blocking the synthesis of endogenous nitrosamines.
Therefore, garlic has the functions of preventing cancer and prolonging life for many cancers.