These people should definitely not eat it
Garlic is an indispensable spice in every family's kitchen. In fact, garlic has many health benefits, but not everyone can eat garlic.
Garlic is a very nutritious food, containing many ingredients that are beneficial to human health, it is also recognized as a food with anti-cancer properties, allicin in garlic is used in clinical medicine, or in other words, eating garlic often has a very good effect on improving human immune function, enhancing cardiovascular health, cerebral blood vessels and better metabolism in the body.
The sulfur compounds in garlic have strong anti-inflammatory and antibacterial effects, garlic can also reduce blood sugar and prevent diabetes. Garlic can also prevent colds and fatigue. Garlic also plays a very good role in preventing vaginal yeast infections in women.
But is garlic suitable for everyone? Of course the answer is no, although garlic is rich in nutrients, it is counterproductive for these 3 types of people, eating it is even more harmful to health.
1. Patients with liver disease
The most well-known effect of garlic is its antibacterial and antiviral effects, but for patients with liver disease, garlic is not very useful, because the antiviral active ingredients in garlic have no effect on the virus that causes liver disease.
Regular consumption of garlic can irritate the digestive tract, leading to reduced digestive function, indirectly increasing the digestive burden of the liver, and can also cause nausea, loss of appetite and many other symptoms in patients with hepatitis.
At the same time, some volatile components in garlic will reduce the content of red blood cells and hemoglobin in the blood, thereby reducing the body's oxygen transport, causing the body to show symptoms such as dizziness due to anemia, which is very unfavorable for the treatment of hepatitis. Therefore, for patients with hepatitis, it is recommended to eat less or not eat garlic.
2. Diarrhea patients
Diarrhea is a common digestive disease in life, often caused by improper diet, bacterial infection or other diseases in the body. For people with diarrhea symptoms, it is best not to eat garlic.
Although garlic has a certain sterilization effect, the sterilization of garlic will also increase the secretion of gastric acid in the stomach, and the capsaicin in garlic will irritate the gastric mucosa, because the stomach and intestines of diarrhea patients are already in an extremely weak state. Compared with its sterilization effect, it has greater side effects and is at risk of aggravating the condition.
3. People with eye diseases
Garlic is also a food that should be avoided by patients with eye diseases. Since ancient times, traditional Chinese medicine has said that eating too much garlic will "harm the liver and eyes", the reason is that garlic is a hot food that can cause internal heat.
In addition, garlic also contains many irritating ingredients. Excessive consumption will increase the content of stimulating ingredients in the blood, causing eye irritation, which will definitely make eye diseases worse.
Therefore, everyone must pay attention in life. If you have styes, glaucoma, dry eyes, conjunctivitis, cataracts and other eye diseases, eat less garlic.
In addition, when eating garlic, you should also pay attention to the following:
- Avoid eating garlic on an empty stomach to prevent acute gastritis.
- Avoid consuming too much garlic. Adults can eat two or three cloves of raw garlic and four or five cloves of cooked garlic. Children can eat half as much as adults, eating too much will be counterproductive.
- Avoid consuming garlic for a long time, because it has the effect of hardening the intestines, which is often the cause of constipation, and can kill a large number of intestinal bacteria, which can also cause some skin diseases.
- Some people have a special reaction to garlic, so if you have any discomfort after eating, you need to go to a nearby medical facility for diagnosis.
