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Garlic Ancient and Powerful

Garlic Ancient and Powerful

Garlic where would the human race be without Garlic?

In case you run into a vampire Carry Garlic and a Cross

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Garlic was used by the ancients to ward off disease, demons, devils, and imagined vampires.

Hollywood made use of Folklore’s believe that the cross and garlic was a protection against the Dracula, the Evil Eye, and/or imagined vampires. Vampires may be imagined but the plague wasn’t and there is a reason the ancients used garlands of garlic for the doorways and wore a clove of garlic around their necks. In some places garlic is still hung in the rafters for protection.

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Alternate medicine sometimes refers to Modern medicine as flat earth medicine. Flat earth medicine has ignored garlic’s role in man kind’s history and its ability to heal, but garlic amazing disease-fighting powers have repeatedly been tested in thousands of studies.

Garlic Used For Over 7,000 Years

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Other spices have been used by the human race since its antiquity, but garlic is one of the oldest plants to be domesticated by mankind as both as a food and as a medicine. Modern medicine use of garlic was abandoned since the Germ Theory. But due to the modern day’s overuse of antibiotics Superbug antibiotics (MRSA) is now out of control. Modern medicine is giving garlic a second look in some cases actually recommending garlic.

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