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is thought to be the famous "Molly"
of Homer. Hermes gave it to
Ulysses, who used it to subdue the
sorceress Circe, thus rescuing his
sailors who had been turned into
swine. Homer heaped much praise on
our magic herb. He claimed it cured
tuberculosis.
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The Neriades of ancient
Greece, who worshiped a phallic-
serpent God who always seduced
unprotected husbands, could be
guarded against by displaying
garlic. The mythical Scandinavian
female, Huldra Talle-Maja, whose
powers captured a woman's husband,
was tricked into revealing the
same property of garlic to keep a
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"Bull" from wandering off at night.
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Hippocrates (460 B.C.), known as
the father of medicine, used garlic
for a variety of infections and
intestinal disorders as well as for
wounds, toothaches, leprosy, epilepsy
and chest pains.
Aristotle, (384 B.C.) said of
garlic, "It is a cure for hydrophobia
and as a tonic is hot, laxative, but
is bad for the eyes."
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Disocorides, who lived in the
first century AD and was a Greek
surgeon and physician in the Roman
armies, described garlic with regard
to the Doctrine of Signatures, in
which the medicinal properties of the
plant was revealed symbolically by its
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