A brief introduction of garlic

Garlic is a species in the onion family alliaceae. Its close relatives include the onion, shallot, leek, and chive. Garlic has been used throughout recorded history for both culinary and medicinal purposes. It has a characteristic pungent, spicy flavor that mellows and sweetens considerably with cooking. A bulb of garlic, the most commonly used part of the plant, is divided into numerous fleshy sections called cloves. Single clove garlic (also called Pearl garlic or Solo garlic) also exists—it originates in the Yunnan province of China. The cloves are used as seed, for consumption (raw or cooked), and for medicinal purposes. Here I will show you the health function of garlic:

1. Powerful sterilization. The sulfur compounds in garlic have strong antibacterial and antiphlogistic effect on staphylococcus bacteria, fungi, and various viruses and etc, and the garlic is currently found exterminate action of natural plant in one of the strongest antibacterial.

2. Prevent and control tumors and cancer. The element such as germanium and selenium in garlic can inhibit the growth of tumors and cancer cells, and experimental results show that the crowd of the lowest incidence of cancer is the highest blood selenium content crowd. America's national cancer organization shows that garlic is the world's most potential anti-cancer plant.

3. Clear bowel and detoxification, prevent gastrointestinal disease. Garlic can effectively restrain and killing helicobacter pylori infection virus which caused the gastrointestinal diseases, remove the toxic substances in intestines and stomach, promote gastrointestinal mucous membrane, stimulate appetite, and accelerate digestion.

4. Lowering blood sugar and prevent diabetes. Garlic can promote insulin secretion, increase the tissues and cells’ absorption of glucose, improve human glucose tolerance, decrease blood glucose levels rapidly, and kill for all kinds of bacteria infection of diabetes, thus effectively prevent and treat diabetes.

5. Prevent and cure heart cerebrovascular disease. Garlic can prevent the fat deposition, induce cerebrovascular internal fat metabolism, increase fibrinolysis activity significantly, lower cholesterol, inhibits platelet aggregation, reduce plasma concentrations, increase the expansion ratio, promote diastolic blood vessels, adjust blood pressure, increase the permeability, in order to inhibit thrombosis and prevent arteriosclerosis.

6. Protect liver function. The trace element selenium in garlic can protect the liver through participating the blood aerobic metabolism, remove toxins, alleviate the burden of liver detoxify.

7. Make you energetic. Garlic can improve the nutrients which kidney need effectively, improve the kidney deficiency.

8. Prevent colds. Garlic contains "vulcanize propylene" which has good extermination to pathogens and parasites. It can prevent a cold, reducing the symptoms of a cold, such as fever, cough, sore throat, stuffy nose, etc.

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