Garlic 大蒜
Dà Suàn · Allium sativum (Bulbus)
Food & Ingredients 食材·药食同源- Nature
- Warm 温
- Flavour
- Pungent 辛
- Channels
- Spleen, Stomach, Lung, Large Intestine
- Part used
- Bulb
- Species
- Allium sativum L.
- Origin
- Grown across China; Shandong, Henan
Traditional actions
Warms the middle, resolves toxicity, kills parasites/worms (classical), moves stagnation.
Traditionally used for
Cold-food stagnation, some parasitic and skin conditions (traditional/topical).