How much garlic a day can eat?

days ago, I said, and garlic to the body, but large quantities can cause poisoning.But how much garlic is harmful to it?

garlic poisoning for research, China is lacking, many of which are focused on the research of allicin, fresh garlic without the research, which is natural for us to eat garlic may be different.

Fortunately, however, is that our neighbors - Chang De Jiaer Indian scientists to conduct a study to eat garlic (Rana SV, Pal R, Vaiphei K, Singh K.Garlic hepatotoxicity: safe dose of garlic.Trop Gastroenterol.2006 Jan-Mar; 27 (1) :26-30.).In this study, the scientists made with garlic mashed fresh garlic, and then the rats eat different doses of fresh garlic, at different times of serum transaminases, bilirubin and other liver function and liver at 28 days for the pathology anatomy.

The results showed that the rats fed high doses of large garlic a day, more than 1 g per kilogram of body weight a big garlic (equivalent to 50 kg body weight per day to eat a two-garlic) , 14 days may lead to transaminase, alkaline phosphatase and bilirubin and other liver function changes, 21 days, animal anatomy, showing that pathological changes of liver, suggesting liver damage.The experiment also showed that eat 0.5 grams per kilogram of body weight of large garlic may also cause an animal's liver injury.Therefore, the experiment to determine the safety of fresh garlic a large dose of 0.25 g/kg body weight/day.Equivalent to the safety of large garlic adult dose of 12.5 grams/day (body weight 50 kg person).

Therefore, we usually eaten raw garlic is best not to over 12.5 grams per day (a quarter of the two), it may cause liver damage.Moreover, eating garlic is best to add some vinegar or salt, for detoxification, to reduce the possibility of poisoning of garlic.

Garlic is a flavoring agent, we can not as a staple Food to large quantities of food, or may cause physical harm.

In fact, some elements in Food may also lead to physical injury or poisoning, it must not be over-partial eclipse.Studies on food poisoning associated with each of the people of knowledge, but our scientists have long bothered to these studies, just staring at a major research project, which is very regrettable.After the study, I hope the scientists as starting from the side, the relevant departments should arrange funds to support the livelihood of research projects, not just staring at the paper published.A piece of paper to people's lives may be meaningless, might as well tell us how much to eat garlic security.This point, China as India.

Department of Immunology, Peking University, Dr.Wang Yuedan

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