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| The history of garlic
Garlic has been used throughout history for both culinary and medicinal purposes. Although sometimes maligned, garlic has had an amazing array of nutritional and medicinal applications throughout human history, and it is still improving the health of many today. Some of the earliest references to medicinal effect of garlic were found in Avesta, a collection of Zoroastrian holy writing that was probably compiled during the sixth century BC (Darmestetar, 1898). Archaeologists have discovered clay sculptures of garlic bulbs and paintings of garlic dating about 3200 B.C. in Egyptian tombs in El Mahasna. A recently discovered Egyptian papyrus dating from 1,500 B.C. recommends garlic as a cure all for over 22 common ailments, including lack of stamina, heart disease and tumors, and it’s been said the Egyptians fed garlic to the slaves building the pyramids to increase their strength (Lasinski, 2005). In ancient Greece and Rome, garlic enjoyed a variety of uses, from repelling scorpions to treating dog bites and bladder infections to curing leprosy and asthma. Lasiniski K. The History of Garlic: Nature's Ancient Superfood, http://www.googobits.com/articles/p0-1167-the-history-of-garlic-natures-ancientsuperfood. html ((accessed Jan 25, 2010). |
The History of Garlic: Nature's Ancient Superfood
by Kirsten Lasinski June 28, 2005 Although sometimes maligned, garlic has had an amazing array of nutritional and medicinal applications throughout human history, and it’s still improving the health of many today. So grab a clove and enjoy the many benefits of nature’s oldest superfood: garlic. [...] Garlic in Antiquity Unlike that mysterious Tupperware lurking at the back of your fridge, garlic has been employed in a variety of functions for millennia. Archeologists have discovered clay sculptures of garlic bulbs and paintings of garlic dating about 3200 B.C. in Egyptian tombs in El Mahasna. A recently discovered Egyptian papyrus dating from 1,500 B.C. recommends garlic as a cure all for over 22 common ailments, including lack of stamina, heart disease and tumors, and it’s been said the Egyptians fed garlic to the slaves building the pyramids to increase their strength. Garlic proved itself worthy to peasant and royalty alike as Tutankhamen (Egypt’s youngest pharaoh) was sent into the afterlife with garlic at his side. In ancient Greece and Rome, garlic enjoyed a variety of uses, from repelling scorpions to treating dog bites and bladder infections to curing leprosy and asthma. |
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