Garlic has been a regular guest on the table, at the same time, it also has a "natural broad-spectrum antibiotic" reputation. Before eating, peel a few cloves, fried vegetables, put a few cloves, are very delicious.
In fact, in addition to garlic as a seasoning, there are a number of health effects, prevention and treatment of disease is also very good.
Garlic steam water, effective cough
The Chinese medicine believes that garlic is warm, into the lung meridian, able to get rid of cold, rock candy has a moisturizing lung, cough, phlegm effect, so folk will choose to use garlic with rock candy steam water, to treat cold cold cold (manifested as coughing white phlegm, cold cough, drink hot water can be slightly relieved) caused by the cough.
But if the patient's cough belongs to the lung heat (manifested by coughing yellow sputum or accompanied by sore throat, yellow tongue, bad breath), then garlic not only can not stop coughing, and even lead to worsening of the cough.
Recipe: Garlic Steam Water
Materials: 5-6 cloves of garlic (children take 2-3 cloves), rock sugar.
Method: with a knife, garlic flattened, chopped, or cut into thin slices, along with rock sugar into a bowl, add water to the height of the bowl of two-thirds, into the pot steaming, large fire after boiling, small fire and then steam for 15 minutes.
"15 minutes" is the key
After steaming the pot for 15 minutes, the garlic is half raw and half cooked.
On the one hand, it still has the pungent and hot medicinal properties of raw garlic, but the medicinal properties have become "gentle" and not too stimulating, so it can spread the lungs and dispel the cold to stop coughing.
On the other hand, it has the sweetness and warmth of cooked garlic, which can warm up the middle and remove the coldness and dampness of the spleen and stomach.
Garlic for cough, north and south are different
Different regions of the climate environment, resulting in different human body constitution. Southern people because of the hot climate, easy to sweat the loss of water, or internal heat vaporization depletion of the body's fluid, resulting in the body of water fluid fluid blood and other losses, so the southern people are mostly Yin Yin deficiency body.
On the contrary, the northern climate is cold, not easy to damage the water, but the cold is easy to damage the person's yang qi, so the northern people show for yang qi deficiency of the body.
In this way, by and large, the opportunity to use garlic to treat cough in the north may be a little more, the effect may also be better