Benefits of eating garlic: sterilization and anti-inflammation: 1954, Soviet medical scientists proved that white garlic juice can kill bacteria in the base within 3 minutes. With the development of medicine, allicin contained in garlic has been proved to have broad-spectrum antibacterial effect. It can kill a variety of pathogenic microorganisms, such as epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis virus, influenza virus, Japanese encephalitis virus, hepatitis virus, Cryptococcus neoformans, pneumococci, Neisseria meningitidis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever, amoeba, Trichomonas vaginalis, rickettsia, Staphylococcus, Shigella and Vibrio cholerae.
Beware of cancer: garlic can probably block the synthesis of nitrosamines, inhibit the growth of cancer cells, and kill cancer cells. Garlic is rich in selenium, which can accelerate the analysis of peroxides in the body and eliminate the oxygen supply needed for malignant tumors, thus inhibiting cancer cells. Scientists believe that garlic can prevent leukemia, oral cancer, esophageal cancer, gastric cancer, breast cancer and ovarian cancer.
Beware of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases: Another nickname given to garlic by scientists is "vascular scavenger". The researchers found that the deposits on the inner wall of blood vessels of people who eat garlic for a long time are much lighter than those who don't eat garlic. Vascular wall deposition is the main cause of cardiovascular diseases. After a long time, the artery will be blocked and its elasticity will become worse, leading to stroke or death of myocardial infarction. Garlic can also reduce blood lipid and blood viscosity, resist platelet aggregation, and greatly eliminate the paroxysmal injury of heart disease, cerebral thrombosis and cerebral hemorrhage.
Promote hair growth: The volatile oil contained in garlic can accelerate blood flow to sebaceous glands and hair follicles, thus promoting hair growth and treating alopecia. Applying garlic paste to scalp can promote hair growth and eliminate dandruff. If you take the same amount of vegetable oil dressing, you can also relieve the dryness of your hair.
Enhance immune function: the fat-soluble volatile oil in garlic can obviously improve the phagocytosis of macrophages and enhance the immune system.
Anti-aging: Garlic contains egg white, fat, sugar, vitamins and minerals, which can prevent vascular aging and immune decline.
Brain-strengthening and intelligence-improving: the identity in garlic combines with vitamin B 1 in human body to produce "alliin", which can promote and play the role of vitamin B 1, strengthen the energy supply of carbohydrate oxidation, provide sufficient energy for brain cells, and make the brain run quickly.
Harm of eating garlic: eye injury;
Although the benefits of garlic are numerous, in view of the current hot sale of garlic, if some people eat too much garlic, it will definitely affect their eyesight. There is a folk saying that "garlic only hurts the eyes", so people with eye diseases should not eat more, especially those who often have a fever and have a strong deficiency fire. Because some identities of garlic can stimulate human mucosa and conjunctival structure, it affects the treatment results.
Diarrhea diet:
Although eating garlic raw is of great benefit to gastrointestinal health, doctors point out that it is not advisable to eat more garlic when diarrhea occurs. Because the intestinal cavity is in an emergency stress state during diarrhea, allicin produced by garlic will aggravate the stimulation to the intestinal wall, aggravate blood vessel congestion and edema, and often lead to the aggravation of the disease.
So many people often eat a lot of garlic and even force themselves to eat garlic. It is incorrect to think that garlic is beneficial and harmless, because it is suitable for one's own body.