A clove a day? (garlic)

From: Nutrition Action Healthletter | Date: December 1, 1989| Author: Hurley, Jayne; Schmidt, Stephen | Copyright information

A Clove a Day?

"But for its odour," wrote Charak, the father of Hindu medicine, it "would be costlier than gold."

Hippocrates used it to treat people for pneumonia and infected wounds.

In 1858, Louis Pasteur announced that it killed bacteria.

During World War I it was rubbed on wounds to prevent gangrene. During World War II it was called "Russian penicillin."

Today, it's used by millions of people to prevent or treat everythin...

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