You can generally eat garlic when taking medication, but you should not consume too much for the following reasons: 1. garlic belongs to the spicy stimulating food, should avoid eating a lot of garlic, chili peppers and other spicy stimulating food during the medication, to prevent affecting the absorption of drugs. 2. Individual drugs need to be taken on an empty stomach, if you take drugs on an empty stomach and then consume a lot of garlic is easy to stimulate the gastrointestinal mucosa, increase the burden on the stomach and intestines, may make the patient abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and other uncomfortable symptoms. 3. For patients with throat discomfort symptoms, a large amount of garlic will produce stimulation of the throat, making local discomfort symptoms worse. It should be noted that, during the period of taking drugs should be light diet, eat more vegetables and fruits and other foods that help digestion is more conducive to the recovery of the disease.