PEDIATRICS Vol. 91 No. 3 March 1993, pp. 658-659
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Garlic Burns

BEN-ZION GARTY MD1

1 Dept of Pediatrics and Kipper Institute of Pediatric Immunology and Allergy, Beilinson Medical Center, Petah Tiqva, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Five things have been said about garlic: it assauges hunger, warms the body, brings joy, increases virility and destroys intestinal lice. There are those who say that it engenders love and dispels envy.

—Babylonian Talmud: Baba Kama (first gate) page 82

Garlic (Liliaceae Allium sativum) has been used for centuries by many cultures as a remedy for a variety of illnesses. Herodotus spoke about the medical use of garlic in Egypt, 3000 years BC. Hippocrates, in the fifth century BC, used garlic to treat a variety of infections, including leprosy, intestinal disorders, and chest pain. In the Middle Ages garlic was used for protection against the plague.

Submitted on July 20, 1992
Accepted on September 3, 1992




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