Garlic is an essential condiment in daily life, and it is indispensable for cooking. In recent years, people have discovered many pharmacological effects of garlic and found that garlic can prevent and treat many diseases. American scientists have listed garlic as a basic healthy food.
Sterilization and anti-inflammatory effect: Many people know that eating garlic can prevent and treat gastroenteritis. Garlic has a therapeutic effect on bacillary dysentery caused by salmonella. It can also kill a variety of pathogenic microorganisms such as epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis virus, influenza virus, Japanese encephalitis virus, hepatitis virus, Cryptococcus neoformans (which can cause severe meningitis), pneumococcus, Neisseria meningitidis, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, Bacillus paratyphi, amoeba, Trichomonas vaginalis, rickettsia and so on. According to research, alliin and alliinase contained in garlic can produce allicin in the stomach, which has strong bactericidal ability.
Anti-cancer effect: Garlic can block the chemical synthesis of nitrosamines, inhibit the growth of cancer cells and kill cancer cells. Garlic is rich in selenium, which can accelerate the decomposition of peroxides in the body and reduce the oxygen supply needed by malignant tumors, thus inhibiting cancer cells. Scientists believe that garlic can prevent leukemia, oral cancer, esophageal cancer, gastric cancer, breast cancer and ovarian cancer.
Hypolipidemic effect: A person whose blood lipid is higher than normal eats 1-2 garlic every day, and after 3 months, his blood lipid actually drops to normal. Experimental studies have confirmed the hypolipidemic effect of garlic.
Prevention of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases: Garlic can reduce blood lipid and blood viscosity, and has obvious anti-platelet aggregation effect, so it can improve cardiovascular and cerebrovascular arteriosclerosis, reduce the risk of thrombosis, and greatly reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke (cerebral thrombosis and cerebral hemorrhage). Scientists have successfully extracted drugs from garlic that can prevent hypertension and ischemic cerebrovascular diseases.
Enhance the immune system: Animal experiments show that the fat-soluble volatile oil in garlic can significantly improve the phagocytosis of macrophages and enhance the immune system.
Anti-aging effect: Garlic contains protein, fat, sugar, vitamins and minerals, which can prevent vascular aging and immune decline. The antipruritic effect of garlic extract in vitro is better than that of ginseng, and its effective components can protect vascular endothelial cells from hydrogen peroxide and have certain anti-aging effect.
Others: garlic volatile oil can protect the liver and improve its detoxification ability; Garlic can also promote the secretion of gastric juice, promote the absorption of vitamin B family and increase appetite; Garlic contains a substance that can stimulate the secretion of pituitary gland, which helps to control endocrine glands, regulate the digestion and absorption of fat and sugar, promote the metabolic activity of the body and resist obesity. Studies abroad have found that garlic can prevent the harm caused by radioactive substances to the human body and reduce the adverse consequences.
Garlic has many benefits, but after eating garlic, the odor left in the mouth will also stimulate the stomach, causing heartburn and acid reflux. Gargling, brushing teeth, drinking tea (or biting tea leaves), vinegar and wine can all remove oral odor. Eating garlic with other foods can relieve stomach discomfort. With the development of science and technology, scientists have developed garlic capsules, garlic oral liquid, garlic injection and other drugs specially made of garlic, which has set off a new chapter in human understanding of garlic.
The function of garlic
Publisher: Zhao Ming.
Garlic, also known as garlic and garlic. Perennial perennial plants are hardy, and their seedlings are moist during the growing period, so they are generally propagated with garlic cloves. Garlic. Garlic seedlings. Garlic can be used as a vegetable and seasoning.
It contains allicin and can be used as medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine is used to dispel cold and dampness, kill insects and detoxify. Warm in nature and pungent in taste, it can cure cold and stuffy nose. Chronic cough due to lung deficiency, whooping cough, diarrhea, dysentery, etc. Bulbs contain volatile allicin, which has anti-trichomonad effect in addition to treating bacillary dysentery. Besides amebic dysentery, there are also diseases such as tuberculosis, hookworm, burning insect and trichomoniasis.
I won't elaborate on the edible and medicinal value of garlic. I want to introduce the magical power of garlic to homing pigeons, and talk about my personal experience of letting pigeons drink garlic water.
From pigeon books and periodicals, I have seen many famous pigeon breeders' experience in using garlic. Especially the Garlic Care Law written by Nanxing Pigeonhouse in Taiwan Province Province, after reading it, I am convinced of the efficacy and immunity of using garlic in racing pigeons.
Handan, located in the North China Plain, is rich in garlic and cheap. Why not? Since this year, I have adopted the method of letting breeding pigeons and racing pigeons drink light garlic water two days a week. This method is simple and economical, and has achieved unexpected results.
(1): It solves the problem of long-term defecation and diarrhea in pigeons. Because there are many pigeons in my shed. Pulling water has troubled me for many years, and the effect of anti-inflammatory drugs is not obvious. Pigeon market can't afford expensive pigeon medicine, so we have to let pigeons take it, and several pigeons died because of improper dosage. After using garlic water, when sweeping pigeon droppings, they are all white, red and black, which is very labor-saving, and after sweeping, it is rare to shovel droppings. At this time, I always thank garlic for its efficacy and function. (2) The rickety head disease has disappeared. A few years ago, there were always two or three good pigeons in my shed who died of rickets. This year, there was neither vaccination nor preventive medicine. Miraculously, there was no rickets. Of course, garlic is not everything, and the effect of preventing Baramigo and Escherichia coli is not good, so the vaccine should also be injected. (3) Pigeons' physique is rising, their feathers are smooth and bright, and their mental state is better than in previous years. How big is the magic of drinking garlic water? I dare not exaggerate the effect of using garlic without scientific basis. But the above three effects are real, and pigeon lovers may wish to give it a try.
Pigeonracing drinks garlic water. The method is simple. What I use is: cut a large clove of garlic into thin slices, put it in a Coca-Cola bottle (about one kilogram of water), soak it for two hours, then pour it into a water dispenser or a can bottle for raising pigeons, stop drinking for two days, and wash the drinking utensils. Or, cut the garlic cloves into pieces and put 2-5 pieces directly into the water dispenser and cans. Garlic makes pigeons drink. After a long time, pigeons get used to drinking garlic water.
The garlic powder and garlic oil essence produced in Taiwan Province Province may be more effective for pigeons to drink, but after all, the price is higher, so that pigeons can take it all the year round, which is unbearable for the working class. Garlic is very economical if you can buy one yuan a kilogram. According to Taiwan Province Nanxing Pigeon Club, cutting garlic into soybean grains and feeding it to cold pigeons also has a good effect and helps digestion. Pigeons raised in this way are always healthy and beautiful, bringing you unexpected results.
Pigeon breeding is a science and an art, and pigeon breeders should have a scientific mind. In the spirit of innovation, we should have the desire to study and research, and we should not use the "old imperial calendar" to follow the traditional old model. Like pigeons drinking water. Some people let pigeons drink light salt water, light vinegar water, honey water and ginseng water. Calcium-containing oral liquid, etc., all have a spirit of innovation and change and an attitude of bold exploration. A famous pigeon breeder said that all nutrients and drugs that are beneficial to human beings will be beneficial to pigeons, but attention should be paid to dose adjustment. Garlic, as a pure natural crop, has a peculiar effect on human consumption, epidemic prevention and treatment. Of course, garlic for pigeons is also beneficial and harmless. This is proved by a large number of facts, and pigeon lovers need not doubt it.
How powerful is garlic? Pigeons might as well try for a while and let the actual effect answer this question. Although I grew up in a garlic producing area, I didn't write this article to promote garlic. Please don't misunderstand my intention.