Garlic is pungent and warm, and belongs to the spleen, stomach and lung meridian. It has the function of decongesting, detoxifying and killing insects, and can be used to treat carbuncles, boils and ringworm, and can treat all swelling and poison. Garlic has a relatively strong detoxifying effect, and when infused with wine, it is good at moving up the lung system and is effective for various symptoms of the lung system. It can assist in the treatment of tuberculosis, dysentery and diarrhea. For the treatment of tuberculosis, wine infused purple garlic can be used with rice to make porridge. To treat whooping cough, garlic in wine is mixed with sugar. Garlic soaked in wine has a warming effect on the meridians, but this effect comes from the action of the wine, not from the effect of garlic itself. For unclean diet, vomiting and diarrhea or dysentery, raw garlic can be consumed or cooked. Nowadays, for the treatment of bacterial dysentery and amoebic dysentery, garlic can be used to make syrup.