Eating garlic raw is good for health, but it is also harmful to some people.

garlic has been used to prevent and treat diseases in China for a long time. It is considered that garlic is pungent and mild, with little toxicity, and it passes through the spleen and stomach and lung meridians.

it has the functions of stagnation of qi, warming the spleen and stomach, eliminating symptoms and accumulation, detoxicating and killing insects, inducing resuscitation and avoiding evil. It is often used to treat food stagnation, epigastric cold pain, water swelling, diarrhea, dysentery, malaria, carbuncle, tinea baldness, insect and snake bites, etc., which can be taken orally or externally.

As Compendium of Materia Medica says: Garlic gourd, with its strong smell, can clear the five internal organs, reach the orifices, eliminate cold and dampness, eliminate evil, eliminate carbuncle and swelling, and accumulate meat, which is also useful. ?

According to modern reports, garlic can be used for the prevention and treatment of bacterial dysentery, amoebic dysentery, influenza, epidemic encephalitis B, lobar pneumonia, whooping cough, diphtheria, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever, icteric infectious hepatitis, suppurative soft tissue infection, suppurative otitis media, trichomonal vaginitis, mold infection, tinea capitis, pinworm disease and dentin hypersensitivity.

Modern research shows that garlic contains volatile oil, allicin, allicin, and a variety of thioether compounds composed of allyl, propyl and methyl. Garlic contains protein, fat, carbohydrate, dietary fiber, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamins A, B, C and other nutrients. First, after many years of research at home and abroad, it is found that garlic has the following health-care functions: allicin in garlic has a strong antibacterial and bactericidal effect < P > It has a strong resistance to Escherichia coli, typhoid Bacillus, Shigella, diphtheria, Vibrio cholerae and Staphylococcus aureus. In addition, it also has the effect of inhibiting trichomonas vaginalis and rickettsia tsutsugamushi. It can also alleviate or inhibit the growth of many different fungi and molds, including Candida albicans, which causes vaginitis, and plasmacytoplasma capsulatum, which causes tuberculosis. Studies have proved that purple garlic has stronger antibacterial effect than white garlic. Garlic has significant anticancer effect

It has been found that garlic can prevent cancer by preventing nitrosamine synthesis, and can prevent gastric cancer, esophageal cancer, colorectal cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer and pancreatic cancer. According to British media reports, people only need to eat raw garlic twice a week to reduce the risk of lung cancer by nearly 5%. Chinese researchers also found that adults often eat raw garlic, and the risk of lung cancer can be reduced by 44%. The study also shows that fresh garlic has the best anti-cancer effect, followed by boiled garlic and vinegar garlic. Garlic has the functions of lowering blood fat, cholesterol and triglyceride, and preventing atherosclerosis < P > Garlic contains highly active substances, which can prevent fat from depositing in blood vessels. Diallyl disulfide and sulfur-containing amino acids in garlic can slow down heart rate, enhance cardiac contractility, and lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels < P > Garlic can prevent platelet aggregation, reduce the incidence of coronary heart disease and prevent cardiovascular diseases. A three-year study on 432 patients with heart disease in Udaipur Medical College of India showed that taking garlic can significantly lower their blood pressure and reduce the heart attack. Garlic can prevent the harm of radioactive substances to human body

Seibersdorf Research Center, Austria, West? Dr. Knasmiller's research found that garlic can prevent the harm of radioactive substances to human body and reduce the adverse consequences of radiation on human body. Garlic can prevent lead poisoning

Medical experts have found that lead poisoning patients eat garlic three times a day, and 93% of people's urine lead can be reduced to normal values. Garlic can help digestion and increase appetite < P >, especially it can help digest protein and enhance the absorption of vitamin B1. Second, how to eat garlic is effective

There are many ways to eat garlic, but if it is used as medicine, it is better to eat it raw.

People in the north of China have long been used to eating garlic raw (such as eating jiaozi and mixing cold dishes with garlic paste), while people in the south are not used to eating it raw. However, as long as garlic is mixed with other foods, it can reduce the strong stimulation of garlic on the oral cavity and gastric mucosa. If the garlic head is smashed with a knife before being eaten raw, alliin and alliinase which are not interfered with each other in the garlic head can react chemically to generate volatile allicin, which can not only increase the antibacterial effect, but also improve the taste. Third, in order to reduce and prevent the side effects such as spicy irritation of garlic, the following matters should be paid attention to when eating garlic raw:

1. It is not suitable for people with yin deficiency and excessive fire and patients with acute and chronic pharyngitis, laryngitis, stomatitis and oral mucosal ulcer to eat garlic raw.

2. Do not eat too much raw garlic. Eat 2 or 3 cloves of raw garlic and 3 or 5 cloves of cooked garlic every day. Children and the elderly should be reduced.

3. Avoid eating on an empty stomach. Eating on an empty stomach will stimulate the gastric mucosa more, which may induce acute gastritis and other diseases.

4. Avoid eating raw garlic for a long time. Eating a lot of raw garlic for a long time can induce constipation, kill beneficial bacteria in the intestine, cause vitamin B2 deficiency, and easily suffer from angular stomatitis and glossitis.

5. As the saying goes: Garlic has a hundred benefits, but it is only harmful to the eyes? . Therefore, people suffering from various serious eye diseases, such as conjunctivitis and keratitis, should not eat garlic.

6. Do not eat garlic if you have serious gastrointestinal diseases, such as chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer, so as not to aggravate your condition.

7. People with severe liver, kidney and bladder diseases should not eat more garlic.

8. In addition, eating garlic will cause a special garlic smell in the mouth, so it is best not to eat garlic when going to more important parties and meetings, or when going to public places such as shopping malls, so as not to cause adverse effects on others.