Honey soak garlic to nourish Yin and stomach

The 2009-04-23 health

Autumn wind big dust many, a few germs also can roll soil and come. At this time, people used to eat some garlic to prevent the invasion of bacteria, but garlic delicious, garlic odor difficult to remove. Koreans like to combine garlic with honey to eliminate the odor of garlic and enhance the effectiveness of garlic.

Garlic has been praised as a "natural antibiotic", which not only has strong sterilization, but also has obvious effects on cold, diarrhea and gastroenteritis caused by bacteria. Eat garlic very cultured, garlic and honey bubble after eating, there are three major benefits -

After eliminating garlic odor and eating raw garlic, there will be a special odor in the mouth, this is because after chewing garlic cloves, the enzyme activation in the garlic cells, the allicin decomposed into a special odor of allicin. Soak the garlic with honey to reduce the strong garlic flavor. Garlic will taste better if it is soaked in about 30% salt water and then soaked in honey, which will not only remove the odor of garlic, but also eliminate the astringency of garlic. Another simple and effective way to get rid of the bad smell of garlic is to chew the tea leaves after eating the garlic, and then rinse your mouth with strong tea water.

Raise Yin and stomach garlic belong to acrimony excitant food, can injure Yin, stimulation stomach mucous membrane, still can cause after eating dry mouth. And honey has the function of strengthening spleen, stomach and nourishing Yin. Therefore, the garlic soaked with honey can make up for the negative effect of garlic and better protect the gastric mucosa. It must be pointed out that although garlic has the function of sterilization, it can only eat 2-3 cloves at most every day.

Honey contains minerals and sugar, which can further enhance the effects of garlic. The combination of garlic and honey helps improve liver function, fatigue and appetite.

Make honey garlic first put garlic in the microwave oven to heat 1-2 minutes, or with boiled water for about 5 minutes, then with the honey bubble of that year about 1 week can be eaten. It's not a good time to eat, but it's best to do so after dinner, as nutrients are absorbed during sleep and garlic stimulates the stomach less. In addition, people with poor gastrointestinal health can only eat about 1/2 valve per day, because eating too much garlic can easily cause symptoms such as stomach pain or diarrhea. Patients with liver and kidney diseases should avoid eating garlic during treatment.