The efficacy and function of wild garlic

As the pressure of modern life increases, more and more health care methods are emerging, but the most popular ones are still traditional Chinese medicine and Chinese medicine that have been tested for thousands of years. For example, wild garlic, what are the effects and functions of wild garlic? Let me introduce it to you today.

[Other names] Marsh garlic (Supplement to Compendium of Materia Medica), small garlic (Compendium of Materia Medica for Famine Relief), bitter garlic fruit, wild onion fruit (Guizhou Folk Prescriptions and Medicines Collection), wild onion (Shanghai Plant List).

[Source] It is the bulb of the wild garlic of the Liliaceae family.

[Original form] Perennial herb. The bulb is broadly oval, white, only as big as a date, and covered with a membrane. The leaves are basal, slender, tubular, soft and slightly ridged, green in color, and about 30 cm long. The flower stem emerges from between the leaves, is 30 to 60 cm long, with many purple-black bulbils on the top of the stem; the umbel is terminal; the bracts are 2, ovate, membranous; the flowers are small, the perianth is 6, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse at the apex, white, or with a purple dorsal line; the stamens are 6, ovate, and the anthers are oblong; the flower is superior to the locules, 3-chambered, and the style is filiform. Capsule, loculicidal. Seeds black. Flowering period is summer.

【Habitat distribution】Grows in mountains and fields. Distributed all over the country.

【Nature and flavor】 Spicy, warm.

【Functions and indications】Warms the middle, removes accumulation, disperses blood stasis and relieves pain. It is used to treat lumps, blood clots, food stagnation, fullness, carbuncles, and injuries from falls.

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decoct in water or grind into juice.

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

Above we introduced wild garlic and its characteristics. We can know that wild garlic has very good efficacy and functions, and it has played a therapeutic and auxiliary therapeutic effect on many diseases. I hope this will be helpful to everyone’s health.