Benefits of eating garlic

Helps treat colds

Eating garlic continuously for 1 week can help the body fight against the common cold. Garlic has strong antiseptic properties, eating garlic at the time of flu will help strengthen your immune system.

Garlic has a warming property, so it can remove cold and dampness, prevent cold and eliminate the causes of cough. Therefore, the habit of eating raw garlic every day can help you reduce cough and recover faster.

Helps filter toxins in the blood

Garlic is one of the natural solutions to help you purify and detoxify your body effectively. Experts say that garlic contains a chemical called allicin, which helps our body eliminate harmful substances and at the same time strengthens healthy white blood cells.

Eating raw garlic for a week not only helps purify the blood and clean the blood vessels but is also very good for the liver.

Lower blood pressure

The active ingredients in garlic have the ability to lower blood pressure similar to other specialized drugs. Eating raw garlic is one of the simple and effective remedies for high blood pressure. When you crush and chew raw garlic, it releases an enzyme called alliinase, which leads to the formation of allicin.

Prevent heart disease

Garlic has the ability to reduce LDL cholesterol, or bad cholesterol, by 10–15%. When bad cholesterol increases in the body, the risk of heart disease and the risk of developing fatty deposits in the blood vessels increases. This can reduce blood flow and cause strokes in patients.

Prevent Alzheimer's

The nutrients in garlic help protect brain cells against aging, reduce cholesterol, and lower blood pressure. Therefore, eating raw garlic every day can prevent age-related neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's disease.

Foods that are taboo with garlic

To avoid harming your health, when eating or preparing food, you should avoid using the following foods with garlic:

Egg

Eggs when combined with garlic can become toxic and harmful to the body, especially when fried too much. Garlic fried too much often creates very toxic substances, dangerous to health. Therefore, garlic should not be eaten with eggs is a general recommendation of many experts.

Chicken

Chicken is a warm and sweet food, so when combined with garlic, which is very hot, it will make the dish hot, difficult to digest and easily cause constipation and dysentery. If you are constipated because you ate chicken with garlic, to get better quickly, you can boil mulberry leaves to drink.

Grass carp

Also one of the foods that “taboo” with garlic, so you should not use garlic combined with grass carp. Although grass carp is a nutritious food, very delicious, firm meat, but during processing, you should only marinate grass carp with dill and ginger, but should not use garlic. The reason is, grass carp has a neutral nature, sweet taste does not match with garlic, if garlic is added, it can easily lead to bloating and worms...

Crucian carp

This is a very attractive dish when braised salty, fried crispy, cooked in sour soup... This food has the effect of clearing blood vessels, replenishing the body, nourishing yin and blood, benefiting qi and spleen, clearing heat and detoxifying, clearing blood vessels and reducing milk, promoting urination and reducing swelling, eliminating rheumatism, good for pregnant women. However, you should not cook crucian carp with garlic, because they are mutually exclusive. Eating crucian carp and garlic together can increase gastrointestinal spasms.

Dog meat

Dog meat is rich in protein, if combined with garlic it can easily lead to indigestion, bloating or diarrhea. Therefore, you should eat dog meat with lemongrass, ginger, galangal but should not eat with garlic - a spicy and very hot food.

People who should not eat garlic

Do not eat garlic when you have eye disease

Chinese medicine has a saying: "Garlic has a hundred benefits, but it is only harmful to the eyes." Because this tuber contains a component that irritates the mucous membrane and conjunctival tissue of the eye, people with poor eyesight and eye diseases are advised to limit their garlic intake.

Do not eat garlic when you have diarrhea.

For normal people, eating raw garlic is especially beneficial for the stomach. However, for those who are suffering from cholera, garlic is a food that should be avoided. The reason is because allicin in garlic increases intestinal wall stimulation, leading to blood vessel congestion and edema, which can make the disease worse or cause unwanted complications.

Low blood pressure

People with high blood pressure should limit garlic, consuming a lot of garlic often lowers blood pressure, even to dangerous levels.

History of liver disease

Many people believe that garlic has antibacterial properties and eating a lot can prevent hepatitis. Some people even persist in eating garlic every day after getting liver disease. However, this is a way of doing things that "does more harm than good". People with liver disease (especially those with hot liver) will get hotter if they eat garlic, causing strong irritation and leading to long-term damage to this organ.

Cholera

Although beneficial for the stomach, for those who are suffering from cholera, garlic is a food that should be avoided. That is because allicin in garlic increases intestinal wall stimulation, leading to blood vessel congestion, edema, which can make the disease worse or cause unwanted complications.

Weak and hot person

Garlic is a hot food, so people with internal heat and mouth ulcers often limit their intake of garlic. Similarly, people with weak constitutions should not eat a lot of garlic. Hungry stomach When you are hungry or have a rumbling stomach, you absolutely should not eat garlic because an empty stomach will easily stimulate the intestines and stomach, leading to stomach pain and acute gastritis.