Peel off the outer skin of the selected head of garlic and cut off the ends of the garlic with a knife, then chop the garlic into small pieces. Put the chopped garlic into a bowl, add appropriate amount of salt and rub the garlic with your hands until the garlic becomes soft and tender. Add a good amount of vinegar to the salt rubbed garlic and continue to rub with your hands until the garlic becomes even more tender and soft. Add a good amount of soy sauce to the garlic that has had salt and vinegar added to it. Add the garlic with salt, vinegar and soy sauce to a blender and blend into a garlic puree. Put the pureed garlic into a bowl and season again with salt, vinegar and soy sauce to taste. Put the flavored garlic paste into a clean glass jar and store in the refrigerator for up to a month.

Garlic is pungent, warm and enters the spleen, stomach and lung meridians; it has the effect of warming the middle and eliminating food, moving stagnant qi, warming the spleen and stomach, eliminating stagnation, detoxifying and killing insects.