Culinary and pharmaceutical aspects of garlic
Keywords:
garlic, nutrition, therapeutic, foods, medicines, Spanish proverbs, Spanish nature paints.
Abstract
The garlic is the bulb of the Allium satiivum L. plant to that the Spanish collection of proverbs alludes frecuently to it. It has been commonly used a long time ago because it has properties of a great value like food and medicine. Its nutritional value is revealed not only across the nature painting of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries but also because it is an usual component of Spanish traditional foods like the soups of garlic, the “gazpacho” and divers sauces. Its therapeutic value was known from the old times as antidote by what it was knew as the “theriac of the farmers”. But it was mainly used as antiseptic to that it was part of pharmaceutical compositions as one very famous in XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries medicine named “Antiseptic vinager” or “Vinager of four thieves”. And also nowadays it is used as ingredient to prepare different prescriptions for homeopathy medicine.Format
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Published
2012-06-07
How to Cite
Francés Causapé, M. C. (2012). Culinary and pharmaceutical aspects of garlic. Botanica Complutensis, 36, 131-137. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_BOCM.2012.v36.39451
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