Garlic has been a medicinal and edible food for thousands of years in China, Egypt, India and other countries.
Since the 1970s, the international community has paid more and more attention to the research and application of the medicinal value of garlic. Now it has been favored by the international medical community and consumers.
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Domestic research and application of garlic and garlic preparations are becoming more and more extensive. Especially during the national people's fight against SARS, the effects of garlic and garlic preparations on improving immunity and anti-virus have been repeatedly reported in professional newspapers, CCTV, and Beijing TV.
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The price and sales volume of fresh garlic have also reached new highs in cities such as Beijing and Shanghai.
So why does garlic receive such high attention?
In fact, this is no accident.
The ancient Chinese medical literature "New Materia Medica" (Tang Dynasty) and "Famous Doctors" (Liang Dynasty) have records of garlic, which are called "gourd" and "hu garlic"; "Food Materia Medica" (Yuan Dynasty) records that "modern people It is said that gourd is garlic, and Zhang Qian brought garlic to the Western Regions. Garlic comes from the Hu region, so it has the name "Hu"; my country's famous medical classic "Compendium of Materia Medica" describes in detail the detoxifying, anti-inflammatory, and spleen-strengthening effects of garlic: Garlic "smells pungent and warm" , "The gourd garlic enters Taiyin and Yangming, and its qi is strong, can penetrate the five internal organs, reach all the orifices, remove cold and dampness, ward off evil spirits, eliminate carbuncles and swelling, and transform the accumulation of meat... If you carry it with you on a journey, the wind, scorching rain and wind will not be able to stop it. The famous Chinese medicine expert Chen Zangqi said: "Eating garlic at the beginning is harmful to the eyes, but eating it in large quantities will make the eyes clear. Eating it for a long time will stimulate the blood circulation, strengthen the spleen and stomach, and cure kidney qi." Modern research has found that garlic has six major functions. Health care efficacy (1), antibacterial, bactericidal and virucidal effects. In the 19th century, Bachide first discovered the antibacterial activity of garlic. Starting in the 1950s, Chinese scholars have confirmed that garlic is effective against a variety of pathogenic bacteria (staphylococci, streptococci, meningitis). cocci, Escherichia coli, typhoid and paratyphoid bacilli, dysentery bacilli, tuberculosis bacilli, pertussis, Vibrio cholerae, etc.). Therefore, garlic is known as a natural broad-spectrum plant antibacterial drug. There are various powerful antibiotics such as cyanine, streptavidin, chlortetracycline, and chlortetracycline. However, garlic does not produce resistance and has no cross-infection with berberine or sulfa drugs, so it still has its unique clinical application value. More prominent and important, it has almost no toxic or side effects. Research by the Xinjiang Drug Inspection Institute has confirmed that freeze-dried garlic powder has a certain inhibitory effect on Candida albicans, and the minimum bactericidal concentration for Cryptococcus neoformans is better than that of Nystatin; Cryptococcal skin infection has obvious therapeutic effects. Beijing - Children with leukemia and fungal pneumonia. When other drugs are ineffective, freeze-dried garlic slices not only cure the fungal infection, but also improve their physical condition and blood diseases. Shanghai - Elderly patients with diabetes. My toe fungus infection was not cured after years of use of various drugs. I asked for freeze-dried garlic tablets from the Xinjiang Medical Insurance Company and the disease was cured. Army 155 Hospital used allicin to treat leukemia combined with stomatitis and achieved good results. The antiviral effect of garlic preparations is also very important. . 1:25 garlic dilution can completely inhibit the growth of cytomegalovirus (Ad 169 strain) and has no obvious effect on the growth of normal cells; 0.015mg/ml allicene can kill the herpes virus. Experiments show that garlic ingredients are resistant to herpes viruses. The order of virus action is: garlic?>allyl methyl thiosulfinate. Freeze-dried garlic powder tablets can completely release these components in the intestine (2), lowering blood lipids and cholesterol. , anticoagulation, prevention of arteriosclerosis and cerebral infarction. Bordia first reported in 1981 that garlic can prevent the increase in plasma cholesterol and reduce blood lipids, and its lipid-lowering effect is better than Cloritomin; garlic can be used as an effective weapon to deal with the highest mortality rate in the world today. Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. This discovery makes the important health effects of garlic far beyond its antibacterial and antibacterial effects. Stephen and others used computer multiple regression to process and evaluate the research data on garlic in the past 20 years, and confirmed the cholesterol-lowering effect of garlic. , the decrease was 9% (0.44-0.74mm0l/L, P<0.001), and it has obvious anti-platelet aggregation, reduced blood viscosity and improved red blood cell concentration. It is recommended that patients with high cholesterol take half a head of garlic every day; in recent years, a large number of Experimental research and clinical verification have confirmed that garlic has anti-platelet aggregation, lowers blood pressure, improves blood flow fibrinolytic activity and peripheral microcirculation, significantly reduces blood viscosity and improves red blood cell concentration, resists experimental atherosclerosis, dilates blood vessels and It has certain and comprehensive prevention and treatment effects on this common and frequently-occurring disease in middle-aged and elderly people.
It should be a must-have at home or when traveling and a good medicine for long-term use.
Research has found that the ingredients that are effective against high cholesterol, hyperlipidemia and aortic lipid deposition are alkyl disulfides, alliin, and allicin.
(3) Protect the liver and prevent and treat hepatitis. Garlic inhibits the loss of liver cell membrane structure by lipid peroxidase and protects the liver.
It can reduce the levels of serum ALT (alanine aminotransferase) and AST (aspartate aminotransferase) caused by carbon tetrachloride-induced liver injury.