| Family Name | Liliaceae |
| Scientific name | Allium sativum |
| Common name | Allium sativum |
| Growth habit | Perennial herb |
| Leaf | Leaves are long, narrow and flat, pale green, waxy surface |
| Flower | Flowers small, often mixed with the most dense, flowers reddish bulbils, diameter 4 ~ 5 mm, flowering from May to July |
| Fruit | Garlic, fruit period from September to October |
| More to learn | General white garlic after fermentation black garlic, allicin concentration is 20 times that of the general white garlic |
| Properties | Spicy, warm, stomach, Zhili, cough, sterilization. |
| Treats | Prevention of influenza, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis. Pulmonary tuberculosis, whooping cough, loss of appetite, indigestion, dysentery, amoebic dysentery, enteritis, enterobiasis, hookworm; topical treatment of vaginal trichomoniasis, acute appendicitis |
| Reference | General information on Allium sativum Gallery on Allium sativum Oil extracted from Allium sativum |