Review Article
    Pharmacognosy Reviews
    Vol. 4
    Issue 7
    2010
    pp. 106-110
    Open Access

    Extracts from the history and medical properties of garlic

    Biljana Bauer Petrovska1,Svetlana Cekovska2
    1Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Vodnjanska 17.
    Correspondence:

    *Biljana Bauer Petrovska

    Department of Pharmacognosy Faculty of Pharmacy, Vodnjanska 17.

    biba@ff.ukim.edu.mk

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    2010 Author(s)

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    Published:28/07/2010
    Received: 02/03/2010
    Accepted: 10/05/2010

    Abstract

    At the time when antibiotics and other pharmacy products did not exist, a bulb of garlic itself represented a whole pharmacy industry due to the broad spectrum of effects. Most different suppositions involving this herb are mentioned; some of them were so pointless that they disappeared in time, but some of them have remained until the present days. The garlic was given different names that are still in use such as ‘Russian penicillin’, ‘natural antibiotic’, ‘vegetable viagra’, ‘plant talisman’, ‘rustic’s theriac’, ‘snake grass’ etc. Presentation of the development of ideas associated with garlic and the evolution of the notions increased the ability of the pharmacists and physicians to respond to the challenges of their professional services in facilitating human life.

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    Keywords

    Allium sativum
    garlic
    history
    usage
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