Garlic is a natural medicine but care should be taken when using it - Photo: Dr. Dinh Minh Tri
According to Dr. Dinh Minh Tri - University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City, garlic contains many antibiotics allicin that help fight disease-causing viruses.
Garlic essential oil is rich in glycogen, alin, and phytoncide, which have antibacterial, antiseptic, and anti-inflammatory properties. In addition, garlic also contains large amounts of vitamins A, B, C, D, PP, carbohydrates, polysaccharides, inulin, fotoxterin, and other minerals necessary for the body such as iodine, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, and trace elements.
This spice also helps reduce cholesterol in the blood, is rich in antioxidants, helps restore cell activity in the body, improves resistance, helps the body fight many diseases: stomachache, flu, bloating, indigestion, detoxifies the body, good for the heart, liver, bones and joints, reduces blood pressure, diabetes...
Doctor Cao Hong Phuc, Hospital 103, said that some of the latest research shows that garlic has many health benefits, but the side effects of garlic interact with many types of drugs, so people taking medication need to be careful when using garlic.
Loss of viral treatment
Garlic has a significant effect on the immune system; increases the activity of lymphocytes, especially CD4 phagocytes, helping the body protect cell membranes against DNA chromosome damage; anti-virus; prevents infection. Using garlic can prevent some diseases caused by viruses such as flu, colds and many other viruses.
However, if you are suffering from a viral illness, you must take medication, especially antiviral drugs, which have the effect of inhibiting viruses and are widely used in the treatment of viral infections such as HIV, hepatitis B... Garlic is also an herb that has the effect of treating viruses, but be careful when using them together.
The reason garlic slows down and reduces the absorption of antiviral drugs, so when taking medicine and garlic at the same time, garlic will be effective first because it is a natural product with many easily absorbed properties, preventing the drug from being absorbed to the maximum.
Therefore, the therapeutic effect of the drug will decrease. Meanwhile, the antiviral effect of garlic is not as specific and not as strong as the drug. Thus, the treatment goal will not be successful.
Therefore, garlic should be used a week before the intended treatment. When treating, one must increase the dose of the drug, which is difficult to do. Two, garlic must be reduced and eventually stopped. This will preserve the effect.
In case you don't know and have used garlic for a long time, the treatment is very simple, just increase the dose of the current medicine you are taking by 20% for one day and stop using garlic. The next day, everything will return to normal.
Antiplatelet drugs for cardiovascular and stroke treatment
Antiplatelet drugs are drugs that prevent platelets from clumping together. They are often used as a preventive treatment for people with coronary artery disease such as myocardial infarction, myocardial ischemia, and ischemic stroke.
If you are taking any of these medications, you should avoid garlic. Garlic is also an anti-platelet herb. Taking garlic with medication can result in excessive anti-platelet aggregation, which can cause trauma to lose its protective mechanism, just like someone who overdoses on medication.
If you have accidentally taken a high dose of garlic or taken medication with garlic, you should limit strenuous exercise because you may have internal bleeding or uncontrollable bleeding due to internal microtrauma. Absolutely do not run or exercise for 2 days after taking it together.
If you have not used it yet, it is best to stop using garlic, because at this time the treatment effect needs to be achieved more. If you plan to have surgery, you should absolutely avoid garlic for at least 1 week before the surgery.
Anticoagulants for treating hyperlipidemia and vascular occlusion
The problem of difficult-to-stop bleeding is similar to when we use garlic with anticoagulants. In patients with dyslipidemia or cerebral or coronary artery occlusion, people are forced to use strong oral anticoagulants.
When used, the immediate advantage is that it is easy to control blood clots. However, if we use garlic in other forms such as raw garlic, pickled garlic, fried garlic, etc., there is a risk of losing control of these diseases.
The most important thing to do is to avoid garlic during this illness. Oral medications such as garlic essence and garlic extract should also be avoided. Preventive measures in daily life are also applied in the same way as antiplatelet drugs.
Autoimmune disease treatment drugs
Many people with autoimmune diseases will have to use Cyclosporin. Cyclosporin is a drug that has a relatively good anti-hypersensitivity effect. It is a drug that helps stabilize people with autoimmune diseases such as ankylosing spondylitis, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis.
An important note for you is that if you are unfortunate enough to use this drug in treatment, you absolutely must not use garlic. Because Cyclosporin and garlic are not in the same place. The drug needs to exist long enough to treat. But garlic does not understand the mechanism by which it causes the drug to be metabolized, decomposed and eliminated quickly. That means the treatment effect of the drug is not achieved.
In this case, it is better to stop taking garlic than to increase the dose of the medicine because increasing the dose of the medicine is actually very harmful. It is best to stop taking garlic at least 3 days before taking the medicine and delay taking garlic at least 5 days from the time of stopping taking the medicine.
In case you have used a high dose of garlic, there is nothing more suitable than dividing the daily dose into several times. For example, from 2 times to 3 times to increase the time the medicine is present in the body.
Contraceptive pills
An important ingredient in birth control pills is estrogen. Estrogen will work to prevent the egg from implanting. Using garlic at this time is a mistake.
Because garlic increases the breakdown of estrogen. So the superfood garlic can reduce the amount of estrogen in the pill by a fair amount. And with long-term birth control pills, if you break down the estrogen control mechanism for just one day, you will get pregnant.
Treatment: Absolutely avoid garlic on the day of taking the pill. If it is an emergency contraceptive pill, you need to completely stop taking garlic on the day of taking the pill. If you are taking the pill for a long time, you need to completely stop taking garlic 5 days in advance. This is a safe therapy for yourself.
People who should limit garlic intake:
- People with acid problems should not eat garlic.
- People with eye diseases
- People with low blood pressure
- History of liver disease
- Have problems with breath or body odor
- When the stomach is weak
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