Antibacterial and anti-inflammatory garlic has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects. If you eat a few cloves of raw garlic every day, it can effectively prevent the occurrence of acute enteritis, especially for upper respiratory tract and digestive tract infections, fungal keratitis and cryptosporidiosis. According to another study, garlic contains a kind of capsaicin called "propylene sulfide", its bactericidal ability can reach one tenth of that of penicillin, and it has a good killing effect on pathogenic bacteria and parasites, which can prevent influenza, prevent wound infection, treat infectious diseases and repel insects.
What are the disadvantages of eating more garlic? Many people have had this experience. If you accidentally eat a few more cloves of garlic, you will have a stomachache. This is because some elements in garlic have an effect on gastric mucosa. Eat more cloves of garlic, and you won't be able to meet people. This is because the special smell of propylene sulfide in garlic causes oral odor, which will make people stay away.
Some elements in garlic can reduce the content of red blood cells and hemoglobin in the body, resulting in anemia. Eating more food is easy to cause diarrhea, especially eating garlic on an empty stomach, which is easy to cause inflammatory infiltration of local mucosal tissues in the intestine and permeability variation of blood vessels in the intestinal wall, resulting in diarrhea.
The amount of garlic to eat is best to mash garlic instead of cutting it into pieces with a knife. And first put10 ~15 minutes, let alliin and alliinase combine in the air to produce allicin before eating.
The amount of garlic is not the more you eat, the better. Eating too much garlic will affect the absorption of vitamin B. Eating a lot of garlic will also stimulate the eyes and easily cause blepharitis and conjunctivitis. Besides, garlic should not be eaten on an empty stomach. Patients with gastric ulcer and those suffering from headache, cough and toothache should not eat garlic. Just 1 time every day or 1 time every other day, and take 2 ~ 3 capsules each time.
Conclusion Eating garlic in moderation has many benefits to human body. Generally speaking, it is more appropriate to eat one clove of raw garlic every day. If cooked garlic is eaten 2-3 cloves a day, it will be enough. Garlic is pungent and hot, and excessive consumption will easily lead to excessive liver fire, which will easily cause damage to the liver, and at the same time, there will be symptoms of heartburn. If you want to achieve good health care effect, it is suggested that garlic should be mashed into mud and left in the air for 10- 15 minutes before eating.