In daily life, some seemingly ordinary "ingredients" can often help us solve some common "small problems" in life, such as the ingredients that we will talk about next, which can play a good role in many aspects.
As the saying goes, "eat good onions, ginger and garlic, and the pain will be less than half", whether it is stir-fried or cold, it will always feel that the food is almost delicious.
However, as a kind of food full of flavor, it also divides the crowd into two categories, those who like it feel uncomfortable not eating a meal, and those who don't like it will retreat when they smell the taste.
Since ancient times, garlic has been a food and medicine homologous product in traditional Chinese medicine.
Wang Mengying, one of the four masters of temperature disease in the Qing Dynasty, recorded in the "Suixingju Diet Recipe" that raw garlic is hot.
The cooked garlic is sweet and warm, and has the effect of removing cold and dampness, dispelling yin and evil, and warming the lower air, and also has the ability to "eliminate grain and turn meat, break evil blood, and attack cold accumulation".
Modern research has also found that garlic can also play a certain role in regulating blood lipids and fighting tumors.
As for how this garlic prevents and cures diseases? Let's take a closer look.
1. Detoxification and detoxification
In fact, we are not unfamiliar with this effect of garlic, in ancient times, this "poison" is not necessarily dietary poisoning, and the diseases caused by other reasons can actually be called "poison".
For example, cold poison and heat poison are common in traditional Chinese medicine, as well as insect poison and malaria poison, which all belong to the category of "poisonous evil".
Garlic has a good detoxification effect, and in many cases, it can play a very good effect, for example, it is mentioned in the "Famous Doctor's Directory" that this garlic has the effect of "killing gas".
Modern studies have found that the detoxification of garlic is achieved to a certain extent through the resistance to pathogenic microorganisms, and garlic has a good inhibitory effect on a variety of pathogens.
2. Regulate blood lipids
Due to the long-term "stay-at-home", many people began to enter the team of gaining weight, due to the reduction of the proportion of vegetables consumed, plus eating more and moving less, it will easily lead to an increase in blood lipids, while garlic has the ability to regulate blood lipids.
Through daily diet, it is not difficult for us to find such a phenomenon, for example, when eating meat and greasy, a few cloves of garlic are often added, which seems simple, but the effect is not only as simple as relieving greasy.
Modern studies have found that garlic can help reduce LDL cholesterol in the viscera and increase HDL cholesterol, thereby achieving the purpose of lowering blood lipids.
In addition, if the blood lipids are elevated, there is also a risk of atherosclerosis, and garlic can also play a role at this time.
3. Improve colds
Many times, some people often use garlic to relieve cold symptoms, but there are many types of colds, and the advantage of garlic is to relieve the discomfort caused by various colds.
For example, when you have a cold outside, you have symptoms such as runny nose, strong head pain, and sensitivity to cold, drinking some steamed garlic water at this time can have the effect of dissipating cold in the lungs, slowing down and neutralizing the stomach, and removing the cold and dampness in the spleen and stomach.
But is such a good ingredient edible for everyone?
Of course not, garlic has warm medicinal properties, in addition to not eating too much, some special circumstances also need to be paid attention to.
First of all, it is not suitable for people with five irritable hearts, and it is also said in the "Suixingju Diet Recipe" that people with "yin deficiency and internal heat" should not eat garlic.
Because garlic is pungent and warm, it can dissipate qi and blood in the body, and warm can help make fire, so people who are hot in the lungs and stomach should try not to eat garlic when they have symptoms such as five heart irritability.
The second is that when eating a large tonic medicine, it is best not to eat garlic to prevent heat from heating and heating on heat;
In addition, garlic is a spicy hair product and has strong irritation, so it is also inappropriate for people who are seriously ill and are taking medicine.