Garlic has a spicy taste and a warm nature, and can enter the spleen, stomach, and lung meridians;
It has the effects of warming and digesting food, promoting stagnation of qi, warming the spleen and stomach, reducing accumulation, detoxifying, and killing insects;
Indications include stagnation of diet, cold abdominal pain, edema and fullness, diarrhea, dysentery, malaria, pertussis, carbuncle and toxin, white tinea, snake and worm bites, as well as diseases such as hookworms and pinworms.