Prevention of cancer: 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 garlic eaters blood vessel wall deposition than those who do not eat a lot 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 also reduces blood lipids and blood viscosity, anti-platelet aggregation, so that the risk of heart disease, cerebral thrombosis and cerebral hemorrhage episodes is greatly reduced.
Promoting hair growth: The volatile oil contained in garlic can accelerate the speed of blood flow to the sebaceous glands and hair follicles, thus promoting the growth of hair, and has a therapeutic effect on baldness. Applying garlic paste to the scalp can improve hair growth and eliminate dandruff. If you add the same amount of vegetable oil to your head, it also relieves the dryness of your hair.
Enhancement of immune function: Animal experiments have shown that the fat-soluble volatile oil in garlic can significantly increase the phagocytosis function of macrophages, which has the effect of enhancing the immune system.
Anti-aging: garlic contains proteins, fats, sugars, vitamins and minerals, with the prevention of vascular aging, immune decline and other effects.
Brain: Garlic in the ingredients 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 the brain cells to provide enough energy, so that agile thinking.
■Unsuitable for the crowd to pay special attention
But everything has two sides, garlic also has its "taboo crowd".
Patients with liver disease should not eat: many people believe that garlic can be antibacterial and antiviral, so eat garlic to prevent hepatitis, and even some people still eat garlic every day after 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 stimulating effect, 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: non-bacterial enteritis, diarrhea, should not eat garlic. 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 irritation of the intestinal tract, so that the 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 disease patients should not eat: Chinese medicine believes that long-term consumption of large quantities of garlic will "hurt the liver and damage the eyes", therefore, eye disease 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.
■Tips: eating garlic how to get rid of bad breath
The ideal way to eat garlic is to eat it raw, but many people eat a mouth full of garlic odor is a headache. To reduce the bad breath produced by eating garlic, there are the following ways.
1. To eat with protein-rich foods.
2. Brush your teeth and rinse your mouth immediately after eating.
3. Drink some milk, coffee, tea or eat some fruit.
4. Chew tea.
5. Eat more dates to clear bad breath.
6. Use vinegar or wine to remove bad breath.
7. Chew angelica tablets.