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Article: Garlic as medicine
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- The Weekly Gleaner
- Article date:
- April 7, 2005
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LILIES ARE popular at this time of the year. However, we often forget that garlic (Allium sativum), sometimes called 'stinking rose', is in fact a member of the lily family. Its odour has permeated history for over 6,000 years. The Greeks and Egyptians worshipped garlic. It inspired the first recorded industrial strike, was exchanged as hard currency and used in the trenches during the first world war as an antibiotic. Furthermore, it has been used to:
* Bind sworn oaths
* Repel vampires and ward off plagues
* Flavour meats and vegetable salads
* Preserve meats and corpses
* Keep pests from crops
* Treat diseases ranging from cancer to thinning hair.
The Codex Ebers, an Egyptian ...