The health legend of garlic

whether in China or a foreign country, garlic in addition to eating, there are many legendary medicinal use. Just that pungent smell can make people feel like "drugs". These legendary uses include lowering cholesterol, fighting heart disease, lowering blood pressure, fighting cancer, and so on. In addition to eating garlic directly, a variety of garlic "health products" also came into being, such as garlic powder, garlic oil, garlic tablets, garlic extract, garlic capsules and so on. Legends of these effects have also caught the attention of many scientists.lower cholesterol is a well-known type. Epidemiological studies and preliminary trials have supported this "efficacy", so the U.S. Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine funded a clinical trial to assess its effectiveness and safety. The 192 volunteers with higher cholesterol levels were randomly divided into four groups, eating fresh garlic, garlic powder, garlic extract, placebo, garlic powder and extract equivalent to about 4 grams of fresh garlic per day. After eating 6 days a week for 6 months, cholesterol changes were detected and no real difference was found between the four groups. The quality of the study is higher than other "effective" studies, so its conclusions are more reliable when it came to whether garlic lowers cholesterol., as the authors of this paper say, this study just shows that garlic doesn't lower cholesterol. As to whether there are any other effects, there is no detection, it is not easy to say. For garlic, the more attractive effect is "anti-cancer". Many cancers and diet surveys have been conducted in many parts of the world, and many have shown that garlic may help with digestive tract-related cancers. In China, for example, a survey in Shandong in the 1970s found that the cancer death rate in Qixia was 12 times higher than in Cangshan. The two counties are only 300 kilometers apart, and their geographical environment and living customs are similar. The difference is that Cangshan is the land of garlic, eating 6 kg of garlic per capita per year, while Qixia is only 0.5 kg. In addition, Cangshan garlic contains more selenium. As a result, there is speculation that garlic and selenium help fight cancer. Two "case-control" studies also support the hypothesis that people who eat more garlic have a lower incidence of stomach cancer.there are also animal experiments that support the "garlic anti-cancer" hypothesis. However, none of this evidence is sufficient to "confirm" it. For example, Qixia is rich in apples, can not be said that eating more apples is the cause of the high risk of cancer. The Ministry of Health funded a large study by institutions such as Qilu Hospital to test this hypothesis. More than 5,000 volunteers were recruited in 288 villages and randomly divided into two groups, one eating 200 milligrams of synthetic allicin a day and 100 micrograms of selenium the next day, while the other ate a placebo. After two years in a row, these people's cancer status was tracked for the next five years. The result: there was no significant difference between the two groups for women, and for men, the overall incidence of cancer and stomach cancer was lower in the group that ate allicin and selenium.Japan also has a total of more than 30 volunteers in a small-scale experiment, showing that garlic extract may have some inhibitory effect on the occurrence of colorectal adenoma. But a large study by Institutions such as Peking University and Beijing Cancer Hospital does not support this conclusion. The study, conducted in Linyi County, another high-risk area of stomach cancer in Shandong Province, recruited 3,365 volunteers from 13 villages for short-term Helicobacter pliersal therapy (two weeks), long-term multivitamin supplementation (7.3 years), long-term garlic supplementation (7.3 years) and placebo treatment. The end result: short-term Helicobacterrobacteria therapy can reduce the appearance of precancer cancer lesions in the stomach, and vitamin and garlic supplements have no effect.in the face of these inconsistent and even contradictory findings, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) says it "does not recommend any dietary supplements to prevent cancer, but considers garlic to be a potentially cancer-resistant vegetable." For most people, it's safe to eat, except that it's uncomfortable to put garlic on their skin. Garlic has anticoagulant effects. This is not a problem for the average person. But this "side effect" is noteworthy before and after surgery, or before tooth pulls, and for those who are prone to bleeding and difficulty stopping bleeding., however, ingredients such as allicin in garlic also react with some drugs. More important is the treatment of AIDS drugs, garlic may speed up its metabolism and thus reduce the effectiveness of the drug. This may have little to do with most people, and its reaction to the pill may be more noteworthy. The dose of the pill is designed at a normal metabolic rate, and garlic may speed up its decomposition, reducing the effectiveness of the pill. Although this reaction is not harmful to the body, for people who rely on the drug contraception, because eating garlic led to contraceptive failure, may also cry and laugh. Therefore, if you do not take non-drug contraception, or temporarily do not eat garlic is prudent., garlic is good as a vegetable or seasoning. WHO recommends that the average adult eat 2 to 5 grams of fresh garlic a day, which has a positive health effect. 2 to 5 grams fresh garlic, roughly equivalent to one clove, which contains 2 to 5 milligrams of allicin. If the smell of fresh garlic is not acceptable, then 0.4 to 1.2 grams of garlic powder, 2 to 4 mg of garlic oil, 0.3 to 1 gram of garlic extract, also about the same.