It was known to Ancient Egyptians and has been used as a food flavoring and traditional medicine.
What are the historical uses of garlic?
- The Chinese have used garlic for thousands of years.
- Garlic has been used by ancient Greek and Roman soldiers, sailors, and rural classes.
- Ancient Greeks have presented garlic on piles of stones at crossroads as a dinner for Hecate.
- Ancient Egyptians have used garlic and onions as deities.
Amazing briefs value of garlic plants in the Ancient Ages?
1) Garlic plant (Allium sativum) was the amazing medicine that the ancient Egyptians worshiped. They added it to the inscriptions on the walls of the temples of the Pharaohs, and they cultivated it during two periods of the year, the first period starts from mid-September to the end of October, and the second started from October to the end of November.
2) Old hieroglyphic Egyptian stories narrate that the builders of the pyramids were having garlic plants before work to keep their health strong.
3) In ancient Greece, Greek athletes were eating raw garlic plants before participating in competitions.
4) Roman soldiers were eating garlic plants before the fighting battles.
5) Garlic plant (Allium sativum) was mentioned in the heavenly books and mentioned once in the Holy Quran.
6) In the Middle Ages garlic was used to prevent the plague. And people wear it as necklaces to expel demons and vampires.
7) In World War I, garlic plant was used to prevent gangrene.
8) This amazing plant has been used by those who are before us to treat ear infections, treat or prevent heart disease, and combat cancer today. And treatment of tuberculosis with garlic plants has produced good results.
9) The famous biologist Louis Pasteur examined the garlic effects by placing several garlic cloves in a dish filled with a bacterium farm. The world was surprised to discover that garlic had eliminated these harmful bacteria.