Garlic is known as garlic, life is usually called garlic for garlic, but garlic is only a kind of garlic.

Garlic, an annual or biennial herb with a pungent flavor, was anciently known as hulu, also known as gourd garlic. With its bulbs, garlic shoots, young plants for food. Garlic is divided into two kinds of garlic, garlic.

Perennial herb, genus Allium in the family Liliaceae. Underground bulbs divided into petals, according to different skin color is divided into purple skin species and white skin species. China's native small garlic, garlic cloves are smaller, garlic is native to southern Europe and Central Asia, the earliest in ancient Egypt, ancient Rome, ancient Greece and other Mediterranean coastal countries cultivation, the Han Dynasty by Zhang Qian from the Western region introduced into the Guanzhong area of Shaanxi Province, China, and then spread throughout the country. China is the world's garlic cultivation area and production of one of the largest countries.

Overview of the value of garlic

The Chinese medicine believes that garlic is pungent, warm, and enters the spleen, stomach and lungs, warming the spleen and stomach, eliminating the accumulation of disease, detoxification, insecticidal effect. Garlic contains 43 kinds of sulfur volatiles, 13 kinds of sulfur sulfinic acid (such as allicin) esters, 9 kinds of amino acids, 8 kinds of peptides, 12 kinds of glycosides, 11 kinds of enzymes.

In addition, allicin is a unique component of garlic, when it enters the bloodstream, it becomes allicin, this allicin, even if it is diluted 100,000 times can still kill typhoid bacilli, dysentery bacilli, influenza viruses and so on in the instant.

Allicin and vitamin B1 can produce garlic thiamine, with the elimination of fatigue, enhance physical strength of the miracle effect. Garlic contains creatinine is involved in muscle activity indispensable ingredients, the production of semen also has a role in the number of sperm can make a big increase in the so-called eat garlic energetic that is referred to this.

Garlic can also promote metabolism, reduce cholesterol and triglyceride content, and have the effect of lowering blood pressure, lowering blood sugar, so on high blood pressure, high cholesterol, atherosclerosis, diabetes, etc. have certain therapeutic effects. Garlic can be used externally to promote blood circulation in the skin, remove the aging skin horny layer, soften the skin and enhance its elasticity, but also sunscreen, anti-melanin deposition, blemish whitening.

Domestic and foreign research has proved that garlic can block the synthesis of nitrosamine carcinogens in the body, so far, its anti-cancer effect in more than 40 kinds of vegetables, fruits, arranged in accordance with the pyramid, garlic is located in the top of the tower. In garlic more than 100 kinds of components, dozens of them have a separate anti-cancer effect.

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p>Classification of garlic:

1, garlic

For the lily family (Liliaceae) onion genus (Allium) plant underground bulb. Garlic whole plant has a strong pungent garlic odor, garlic, garlic leaves (green garlic or garlic shoots) and flower shoots (garlic shoots) can be used for vegetable consumption, not only as a seasoning, but also can be used as medicine, is a famous food and medicine dual-use plants.

Garlic bulbs are rich in proteins, oligosaccharides and polysaccharides, fats, minerals and so on. Garlic has a variety of biological activities, such as the prevention of cardiovascular disease, anti-tumor and anti-pathogenic microorganisms, long-term consumption can play a disease prevention and health effects.

2, garlic

Chinese medicine. For the lily plant Allium scorodoprasum L. bulb. Distributed throughout China. It has the effect of warming the middle and dispersing cold, eliminating grain and killing insects. Commonly used in spleen and stomach cold, vomiting and diarrhea, abdominal pain, poisonous insect bites, food accumulation.

Perennial herb. Appearance and garlic is very similar but small, the difference: bulb is as small as Allium, only 1 bulb, not as good as garlic by most of the bulb synthesis.

3, one garlic

Also known as one-headed garlic, one-clove garlic, when we peel the garlic garlic skin, you can usually see its bulb is divided into multiple cloves. Garlic usually has 6 to 10 cloves, but some garlic has only one clove, such garlic is a single garlic.

Because there is no clove, the garlic head is a whole, so the active ingredient contained in the garlic, allicin, is higher than that of ordinary garlic, and the anti-bacterial effect is also more obvious. In addition, one-head garlic has a strong spicy flavor and is richer in nutrients than ordinary cloves, so it is more popular than ordinary multi-cloves garlic.

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