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1. De Candole in his Origins of Cultivated Plants, places garlic as a native to the Kirgiz desert region of Siberia. Since its origins in western Asia, garlic has been naturalized all over the world. De Candole explains that garlic was brought via Asia Minor to Egypt by nomadic tribes and from there back up through India via the trade routes of eastern Asia, and westward to Europe. 2. In ancient Egypt the garlic was so valued that it was used as a medium of exchange: 15 pounds of garlic could buy a “healthy” male slave. It is well known that garlic and onion were involved in the mummification process, but few knew that six bulbs of garlic were found in the tomb of King Tut. Since garlic and onion |
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3. Hippocrates (460 B.C.), known as the Father of Medicine, and creator
of the tradition in western medicine of the (Taken from The Book of Garlic by Lloyd J. Harris, 3rd revised ed., 1991)
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Hippocratic
Oath, used garlic for a variety of infections and intestinal disorders
as well as for wounds, toothaches, leprosy, epilepsy and chest pains.