Garlic Seasonings, Spices and Herbs
Garlic or garlick was part of the food the Israelites ate while they were enslaved to work on the building of the Pyramids. Garlic is used in cooking and is often eaten raw on slices of bread.
The Old Testament uses the Hebrew “garlick” which is translated as garlic. “We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:” (Number 11:5). Garlic was a luxury of Egypt which the Children of Israel desired in the desert. According to Numbers 11:5 it was part of the food the Israelites who worked on the building of the Pyramids ate. “We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:” (Numbers 11:5).
Pliny the Elder gives remedies for the use of garlic including the strong smell of garlic drives away serpents and scorpions. It can cure the wounds made by every kind of wild beasts either by taking it with food or drink, or applied topically. It is a powerful remedy for the bite of the shrew –mouse and the bites of dogs when applied with honey to the wound. Garlic can be used as a disinfections made with garlic have the effect of bringing away the after-birth; and used to employ the ashes of garlic, mixed with oil, for the cure of running ulcers of the head. Some people have prescribed boiled garlic for asthmatic patients. Garlic has been used for years for dropsy. When the leaves are mixed with oil it is a valuable liniment for bruises on the body. The ancients used to give raw garlic in cases of madness. Beaten up, and taken in vinegar and water, it is very useful as a gargle for quinsy which is an abscess in the tissue around a tonsil usually resulting from bacterial infection and often accompanied by pain and fever. Three heads of garlic, beaten up in vinegar, give relief in toothache. Garlic cures coughs and formation or discharge of pus of the chest.
Reference:
Pliny the Elder. (1855). The Natural History, ed. John Bostock (Medford, MA: Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street.
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