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Native to Central Asia, garlic is one of the oldest cultivated plants in the world.
It was recorded that garlic was introduced to India more than 5,000 years ago. From there it spread to the east, probably to South East Asia.
Recorded history shows garlic moving from central Asia into Africa, where the Egyptians thought enough of it to bury their royalty with the precious bulbs.
Along with the abundant gold and jewels in the tomb of King Tutankhamen, six perfectly dried bulbs were found; perhaps they were there to give him sustenance during his long journey through the afterlife.
In 1550 BC, the importance of garlic in Egyptian medical practice was illustrated in the Code Ebers, a famous Egyptian papyrus recording over 800 medical formulas.
At the time, garlic was so valuable a commodity that it was given monetary value and used in barter.
Ancients Greek also loved their garlic. Aristotle, mathematician and the Western world’s most influential philosopher, recommended garlic as a tonic.
The Greek physician Dioscorides recommended garlic to clean arteries and Hippocrates prescribe garlic to a variety of ailments including infections.
In medieval Europe, garlic was purported to confer immunity from the bubonic plaque, and individual resistance to the plaque was often attributed to its consumption.
The History of Garlic
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The History of Garlic
Native to Central Asia, garlic is one of the oldest cultivated plants in the world.
It was recorded that garlic was introduced to India more than 5,000 years ago. From there it spread to the east, probably to South East Asia.
Recorded history shows garlic moving from central Asia into Africa, where the Egyptians thought enough of it to bury their royalty with the precious bulbs.
Along with the abundant gold and jewels in the tomb of King Tutankhamen, six perfectly dried bulbs were found; perhaps they were there to give him sustenance during his long journey through the afterlife.
In 1550 BC, the importance of garlic in Egyptian medical practice was illustrated in the Code Ebers, a famous Egyptian papyrus recording over 800 medical formulas.
At the time, garlic was so valuable a commodity that it was given monetary value and used in barter.
Ancients Greek also loved their garlic. Aristotle, mathematician and the Western world’s most influential philosopher, recommended garlic as a tonic.
The Greek physician Dioscorides recommended garlic to clean arteries and Hippocrates prescribe garlic to a variety of ailments including infections.
In medieval Europe, garlic was purported to confer immunity from the bubonic plaque, and individual resistance to the plaque was often attributed to its consumption.
The History of Garlic
- Biography Of Hippocrates
Hippocrates of Cos, a Greek physician already renowned by the time of Plato and Aristotle, remains an elusive historical figure despite his fame as the founder of scientific medicine. Hippocrates was born on the Greek island of Cos, to Heraclides, a physician...
- Wheat In History
Wheat is an ancient grain. Thought to have originated in southwestern Asia, it has been consumed as a food for more than 12,000 years. Wild grasses resembling wheat in various degrees have been found in many parts of the world. On southwestern Europe...
- History Of Opium
Alcohol may have been the most frequently consumed drug history, but the most effective medicinal drug available before the dawn of the twentieth century was opium obtained from the poppy, Papaver somniferum L. – one of the oldest cultivated species...
- The History And Origin Of Mango
Native to northeast India, north western Myanmar and Bangladesh, they later spread to the rest of Asia by themselves and with the help of humans. The identification of a 65 million year old record of a leaf fossil belonging to the Mangifera in Meghalaya...
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