Where is garlic essential oil produced and where is garlic native to?

Do you know where garlic essential oil is produced? Do you know where garlic is native to? Let's take a look together.

Where garlic essential oil is produced, and where garlic is native to:

Garlic is native to western Asia. Cultivated garlic in China was introduced by Zhang Qian via the "Silk Road", and it has a history of more than two thousand years. As early as more than 2000 years ago, China began to grow it. Garlic contains large amounts of protein, amino acids, vitamins, fats, trace elements and sulfides, etc., that are beneficial to the human body. It is hailed as a "natural broad-spectrum bactericide", and has antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, deworming, stomach-strengthening, sedative, cough-relieving, phlegm-removing and body-shaping effects, and has good results in preventing and treating colds, enteritis, dysentery, tuberculosis, hypertension, atherosclerosis and gastric cancer, liver cancer, diabetes, as well as occupational diseases caused by certain metal poisonings. "The father of Indian medicine" Charaka pointed out that "apart from its unpleasant smell, garlic's actual value is higher than gold".

China's main garlic-producing areas include Yongnian County and the northern part of Daming County in Hebei, Pizhou City, Sheyang County and Taicang City in Jiangsu, Qi County and Hemabingma Village in Zhongmu County in Henan, Jinxiang County (Jining City), Shanghe County, Cangshan County, Guangrao County (Dongying City), Chiping County and Chengwu County (Heze City) in Shandong, Jiading in Shanghai, Bozhou City and Lai'an County in Anhui, Wenjiang County and Pengzhou City in Sichuan, Dali in Yunnan, and Xinjiang, among other places.

Nowadays garlic is grown in most regions, and places where garlic is grown will produce garlic essential oil.