Why do we eat garlic during the Dragon Boat Festival? Who can’t eat garlic?

Why do we eat garlic during the Dragon Boat Festival? Who can’t eat garlic?
The fifth day of May every year is the Dragon Boat Festival in my country. Why do we eat garlic during the Dragon Boat Festival? Who can’t eat garlic? The earthly branch of the fifth month in the lunar calendar is Wu, which represents Yang Fire, so it is also called the Wu month. The fifth month in the lunar calendar is the time when summer insects chirp and midsummer is fragrant. For more information on the do’s and don’ts of the fifth month in the lunar calendar in 2019, please pay attention to Mr. Shui Mo’s website!

When is the Dragon Boat Festival in 2019?

Lunar calendar: May 5, 2019
Gregorian calendar: Friday, June 7, 2019 Gemini
[Today's Old Almanac is suitable] [Do not use it for important events on Yang Gong's taboo day]
Pray for blessings, get married, set up the bed, build the stove, accept the bride price, recruit a son-in-law, fast and offer sacrifices, pray for offspring, seek wealth, build meridians, build houses, dig wells, plant, raise beams and erect pillars, capture
[Today's taboos in the old almanac] [Do not use Yang Gong's taboo days for important events]
Open the market, establish securities, collect money, ship goods, collect livestock, move into new homes, separate, have a fire, travel, break ground, hold funerals, bury, place incense, open positions
According to the lunar calendar, the Dragon Boat Festival in 2019 is on June 7th.

Why do we eat garlic during the Dragon Boat Festival?

A Wujiang folk proverb says: "If you don't eat garlic during the Dragon Boat Festival, ghosts will come to your door." It is said that eating garlic during the Dragon Boat Festival can ward off the "five poisons" and drive away evil spirits and plague. Tofu stewed with garlic is an indispensable delicacy on the Dragon Boat Festival table. Eating garlic during the Dragon Boat Festival may be related to garlic's ability to kill bacteria, and it has the meaning of warding off evil spirits and preventing diseases. Medicine has long proven that garlic does have detoxifying, insecticidal, bactericidal and anti-inflammatory effects. In particular, the allicin contained in garlic can not only treat fungal infections and chronic diarrhea caused by intestinal flora imbalance, but regular consumption can also prevent skin diseases, especially single garlic.

Who can’t eat garlic?

1. Patients with liver disease:
Certain components of garlic can stimulate the stomach and intestines, inhibit the secretion of intestinal digestive juices, affect food digestion, and thus aggravate nausea and many other symptoms in hepatitis patients. In addition, the volatile components of garlic can reduce the red blood cells and hemoglobin in the blood, and may cause anemia, which is not conducive to the treatment of hepatitis.
2. People with non-bacterial diarrhea:
It is not advisable to eat raw garlic when non-bacterial enteritis or diarrhea occurs. The pungent allicin can irritate the intestines, causing congestion and edema of the intestinal mucosa, promoting exudation and worsening the condition. If diarrhea has already occurred, you should be more cautious when eating garlic.
3. Patients with eye diseases:
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that long-term and excessive consumption of garlic can "damage the liver and eyes." Therefore, patients with eye diseases should try not to eat garlic, especially those with poor health and weak qi and blood. Otherwise, over time, they will experience decreased vision, tinnitus, lightheadedness, memory loss and other phenomena.
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