Don’t Put Garlic in Your Ears
Even in an era driven by science, medicine, and global communication, the myth of the cure-all still refuses to go away.
“A patient came into the ER recently concerned about a possible ear infection,” writes Dr. Michael Daignault in an article published by USA Today. “It was hard not to notice the yellowish white object wedged into the patient’s ear canal. A fresh garlic clove.”
It might sound absurd, but as it turns out, there is a historical precedent for garlic being used to treat infections. Granted, shoving a clove of garlic in your ear is still a bad idea. But this is one remedy that admittedly isn’t based on pseudoscience.
In fact, nearly every culture that has encountered the herb acknowledges its curative properties to some extent. In Sanskrit, Daignault explains, the word for garlic is mahoushudh, or cure-all. In China, garlic was used to treat everything from respiratory infections to digestive disorders. In ancient Egypt, garlic was a common treatment for abscesses?where The Concord Monitor reports it was frequently invoked as divine.
Garlic appears in other histories and mythologies as well, according to The Monitor.
In Korea, it was one of the ingredients that transformed a bear into a human. In ancient Greece, athletes used it as a performance enhancer, while Roman soldiers ate it for courage and inspiration. Eastern European folklore viewed garlic as a tool for warding off evil, while Christian mythology claimed the devil&...
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