Garlic contains an active substance called allicin, which has the functions of inhibiting platelet aggregation, enhancing fibrinolytic enzyme activity, delaying atherosclerosis and preventing thrombosis. Therefore, eating garlic raw is also helpful to prevent and treat cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
Step 2 lower cholesterol
Garlic can remove fat accumulated in blood vessels and help reduce the content of cholesterol and triglycerides. The experiment shows that after eating 3 grams of garlic raw every day for 4 weeks, the cholesterol drops obviously.
Step 3 fight cancer
Single garlic is actually undernourished, stunted and without multiple petals. Its unique spicy taste has certain medicinal value, and its anticancer effect is higher than that of ordinary chopped garlic.
4. Prevention of digestive tract tumors
Proper consumption of garlic can prevent digestive tract tumors. Allicin, the main component of garlic, can inhibit the proliferation of gastric cancer cells, induce their differentiation and apoptosis, and has certain anti-cancer and bactericidal effects.
5, raw food has good sterilization effect
During the heating process, the content of organic sulfide which plays an antibacterial role will gradually decrease, and the higher the temperature, the faster the decrease, so the cooked garlic can not play a good bactericidal role. It is healthy to mix garlic with cold dishes at home, and to eat jiaozi garlic mixed with vinegar and a little sesame oil.
6, get rid of damp evil
In summer, the humidity is heavy, so eating more garlic can dispel evil spirits. Whether mixed with cold dishes, stir-fried dishes, jiaozi or noodles, you can have several cloves of garlic, but the whole cloves are raw and delicious. You might as well mash garlic and mix it with vinegar, so as not to eat too much, but also to improve the taste and prevent diseases.
7, anti-wrinkle, anti-aging
Some components in garlic have antioxidant and anti-aging properties similar to those of vitamin E and vitamin C, which helps to protect the skin from free radical damage, and its anti-wrinkle effect is comparable to that of expensive anti-aging chemical ointment.
8, acne, clean the skin
The antibacterial properties of garlic help to clean the skin and make the skin tone better. You can cut garlic cloves in half, and then gently rub them on the acne, and the effect is obvious for a few days.
9, weight loss effect
Garlic can stimulate the pituitary gland, control the function of some endocrine glands, regulate the digestion and absorption of fat and carbohydrates, and prevent the synthesis of fatty acids and cholesterol, thus achieving the purpose of losing weight.
Two kind of garlic folk remedies 1, garlic soaked in white vinegar.
Lowering blood lipid
Exercise:
1. Peel off the old skin of garlic, leaving only the tender skin, put it in a container and add white vinegar (the amount of white vinegar is better than garlic).
2. Then add some sugar and soak for half a month before eating.
Garlic has certain antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and vascular softening effects. Vinegar does have certain lipid-lowering and blood pressure-lowering effects. Therefore, eating garlic soaked in white vinegar helps to keep blood pressure and blood lipid normal.
2. Sweet and sour garlic
Relieve boredom and promote digestion
Practice: Brew with brewed vinegar. If you add a little sugar, it will taste better.
There is a tradition of pickling garlic in the north. Laba garlic, sweet and sour garlic and so on are all popular practices. Pickled garlic can relieve boredom and promote digestion, which is very suitable for eating with meat.
3. Honey and garlic juice
Relieve rhinitis
Exercise:
1. Take 3 ~ 4 garlic, mash it, wrap it with gauze, and take the juice.
2. Take 2 times the honey of garlic juice and stir.
3. Dip a little mixture with gauze or paper towel and stuff it into your nostrils.
Garlic can sterilize and enlighten people, honey is cool, it can clear away heat and enter the lungs, dispel evil and detoxify, resist allergy and enhance immunity. This prescription is especially effective for allergic rhinitis. When this prescription is used in the attack of rhinitis, it will be a little hot and stinging at first, and it will be relieved after a while.
3 precautions for eating garlic 1. Don't eat more than 2~3 cloves of raw garlic every day.
2. Allicin has a certain stimulating effect on the stomach. Eating too much raw garlic can easily cause acute gastritis, and long-term excessive consumption can easily cause eye discomfort.
3. People with poor gastrointestinal function should not exceed 1 valve every day; People with a good stomach, it is best to have 2~3 valves a day.
4, liver disease, non-bacterial diarrhea, eye disease, stomach disease, duodenum, cerebral hemorrhage patients had better not eat garlic.