Emma Miller
Garlic is considered not only a flavorful spice but also a useful product, which is valued for its medicinal properties and healing composition. However, there are cases when garlic can become a real poison.
Thanks to its useful properties, garlic has firmly settled in the kitchen. Most often it is used as a seasoning for various dishes: meat, fish, various soups and sauces, and salads – delicious and useful!
But it has long been known that in addition to its taste properties, garlic has useful elements for the human body.
What diseases garlic cures
According to experts, garlic contains proteins, fats, fiber, ascorbic acid, and carbohydrates. It contains a huge number of micro- and macronutrients, among which are potassium, calcium, sodium, iron, phosphorus, manganese, zinc, and iodine. In addition, garlic contains vitamins B, C, D, and P, phytoncides, essential oil, and sulfur compounds.
Garlic is used as a disinfectant and even for the quick healing of wounds. And regular consumption of garlic lead to a noticeable reduction in the risk of prostate cancer in men.
Thus, experts found that daily consumption of onions and garlic reduces the likelihood of cancer by 50%. Oncologists explain this peculiarity of garlic by the presence of the sulfur-containing substance allium, which gives it its characteristic smell.
Garlic is also recommended for the prevention of throat diseases, pulmonary asthma, for diseases of the nervous system, it cures gout and fights joint diseases. Used garlic and treat diseases of the spleen, quickly removes excess gases from the body, it is recommended for diseases of the stomach and lung ulcers.
Garlic contains substances that increase appetite, and increase the efficiency of the liver, stomach, and intestines, have diuretic, anthelmintic, antispasmodic, analgesic, and antimicrobial action.
How can garlic do harm?
What is the right way to eat garlic? Experts recommend consuming garlic in its raw form because after heat treatment it loses its useful properties.
As with any other product, garlic should be eaten in moderation, because if you eat too much garlic, it can be really poison to your body! Garlic is particularly harmful to the liver. That’s why you can’t eat garlic every day: if you eat it 7 days a week, you’ll have a higher chance of developing obesity in the liver.
In addition, quite often you can meet stories that people had to drink garlic as a pill. So, under no circumstances should you swallow whole garlic cloves: it can lead to damage to the esophagus!
It is worth noting that garlic can cause allergic reactions in the human body. For example, crushed garlic in contact with human skin for a long time can cause irritation and even burns.
Who should not eat garlic?
People who are overweight should keep in mind that garlic further increases their appetite.
Garlic is also contraindicated to people who have stomach and duodenal ulcers, gastritis, hemorrhoids, kidney and liver disease, and epilepsy.
Doctors do not recommend using garlic for women during pregnancy, as well as during breastfeeding.
Specialists say that a healthy person can eat 1-2 cloves of garlic a day to maintain immunity and prevent various diseases. The maximum dose is 3-5 cloves of fresh garlic a day.
