Effects and functions of Laha Garlic

On the day of Laha Festival, our folk have a variety of food. In addition to drinking Laha congee on Laha Festival, people will also pickle Laha garlic. So, do you know the efficacy of preserved garlic? What is the role? Below with me to understand it!

1, it is sweet and sour, garlic flavor and not spicy, there are unctuous and dispel fishy, digestive role;

2, but also induced hepatocyte detoxification enzyme activity, you can block the synthesis of nitrosamine carcinogens, thereby preventing the occurrence of cancer.

3, the antioxidant activity of Lapacho garlic is better than ginseng, often eaten to delay aging,

4, often exposed to lead or lead poisoning tendency of people who eat, it can effectively prevent and control lead poisoning.

5, Lapacho garlic also contains a chorine called propylene sulfide, its bactericidal ability can reach 1/10 of penicillin, pathogenic bacteria and parasites have a good killing effect.

6, can play a role in preventing influenza, preventing wound infection, treatment of infectious diseases and deworming effect.

7, ordinary garlic is warm, eat more heat, and local stimulation, so the yin deficiency fire, eyes, mouth and tongue disease people avoid eating, but Lapacho garlic does not have these taboos.

Garlic is a flavor in the process of cooking delicious food, but also a good nutrient, but also an excellent green natural medicine. Garlic is not only the food cooking process necessary treasures, but also people's daily life in the process of disease prevention and treatment of an important means. So what is the role of garlic?

1, prevention and treatment of tumors and cancer

The sulfur-containing compounds in garlic can promote the intestinal production of an enzyme or a substance called allicin, through the enhancement of the body's immune system, blocking the formation of lipid peroxidation and anti-mutagenesis and other pathways, to eliminate the intestinal substances in the intestines triggered intestinal tumor risk. Elements such as germanium and selenium in garlic can inhibit the growth of tumor cells and cancer cells, and experiments have found that the population with the lowest incidence of cancer is the one with the highest amount of selenium in the blood. According to the American Cancer Organization, garlic tops the list of plants with the most anti-cancer potential in the world.

2, anti-aging

Garlic in some components, similar to vitamin E and vitamin C antioxidant, anti-aging properties.

3, anti-fatigue

It has been found that pork is rich in vitamin B1, one of the foods, and vitamin B1 and garlic contains allicin combined together, can play a good role in eliminating fatigue, restore physical strength.

4, prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease

Epidemiological results show that in the area of each person eating an average of 20 grams of raw garlic per day, the incidence of death of the population due to cardiovascular disease is significantly lower than that of the region without the habit of eating raw garlic. Garlic can prevent fat deposition in cardiovascular and cerebral vessels, induce fat metabolism within the tissue, significantly increase the activity of fibrinolysis, reduce cholesterol, inhibit the aggregation of platelets, reduce plasma concentration, increase the dilatation degree of micro-arteries, prompting vasodilatation, regulate blood pressure, increase vascular permeability, thus inhibiting the formation of thrombosis and prevention of atherosclerosis. Eating 2 to 3 cloves of garlic a day is the best and easiest way to lower blood pressure. Garlic can help maintain the proper amount of an enzyme in the body and avoid high blood pressure.

5, strong sterilization

Garlic is a natural plant broad-spectrum antimicrobial, garlic contains about 2%. Allicin, and sulfur-containing compounds have a strong antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effect, on a variety of cocci, bacilli, fungi and viruses have inhibited and killed the role of natural plants found in the antibacterial effect of one of the strongest, which enters the human body can react with the bacterial cystine to generate a crystalline precipitate, destroying the bacterial essential sulfur amino organisms in the sulfhydryl group, so that bacterial metabolism is disordered, and thus can not reproduce with the Growth. The bactericidal ability of garlic is 1/10 of penicillin, and it has a significant inhibitory or strangulation effect on a variety of pathogenic bacteria such as staphylococcus, meningitis, pneumonia, streptococcus and diphtheria, dysentery, typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever, tuberculosis bacillus and Vibrio cholerae.

In addition, it can also kill a variety of pathogenic fungi and hookworms, pinworms, trichomonads and other parasites. Therefore, eating raw garlic is an effective way to prevent influenza and prevent intestinal infections. However, it should be noted that allicin is easily destroyed at high temperatures and loses its bactericidal effect.

6, improve glucose metabolism

Studies have confirmed that raw garlic has the effect of improving glucose tolerance in normal people, but also promote the secretion of insulin and increase the degree of utilization of glucose by tissue cells, thereby reducing blood sugar levels.

7, anti-allergy

Eating raw garlic every day can reduce the degree of allergic reactions, especially those caused by temperature changes. The best way to do this is to start eating raw garlic a few weeks before allergy season.

8, detoxification and intestinal clearance, prevention of gastrointestinal diseases

Garlic can effectively inhibit and kill gastrointestinal diseases caused by Helicobacter pylori bacteria and other bacterial viruses, to remove the gastrointestinal toxic substances, stimulate the mucosa of the stomach and intestines, to promote appetite, accelerate digestion.

9, lowering blood sugar, preventing diabetes

Garlic can promote the secretion of insulin, increase the absorption of glucose by tissue cells, improve the body's glucose tolerance, quickly reduce the level of blood glucose in the body, and can be killed due to the infection of a variety of bacteria induced by diabetes, so as to effectively prevent and treat diabetes.

10, protect liver function

Garlic in the trace elements of selenium, by participating in the blood of aerobic metabolism, removal of toxins, reduce the burden of detoxification of the liver, so as to achieve the purpose of protecting the liver.

11, to prevent colds

Garlic contains a kind of called ? Sulphurized propylene? The chorine, on pathogenic bacteria and parasites have a good killing effect, can prevent colds, reduce fever, cough, sore throat and nasal congestion and other cold symptoms.