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Article: New insights into garlic's vascular-disease-prevention abilities
- Article from:
- Better Nutrition
- Article date:
- February 1, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright Argus Business, a Division of Argus Inc. Feb 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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One of the many colorful stories concerning garlic's anecdotal history of uses was related by John Heinerman, Ph.D.:
A French vice-consul, Ernest de Sarzec, was staying at the Iraqi port of Basra. One morning, Sarzec woke from his cot, absentmindedly slipping into his shoes. A previously sleeping scorpion "let him know in no uncertain terms exactly how it felt human foot. One of the Bedouin servants hired by Sarzec recommended an old desert remedy for the poor Frenchman's swollen foot."
After a garlic/saliva poultice was made, and applied to the vice-consul's foot, the mixture went about its work neutralizing "the deadly effects of this arachnid's venom."
Now while most of us will hopefully ...