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Garlic

Garlic

1. (Science: botany) a plant of the genus allium (a. Sativum is the cultivated variety), having a bulbous root, a very strong smell, and an acrid, pungent taste. Each root is composed of several lesser bulbs, called cloves of garlic, inclosed in a common membranous coat, and easily separable.

2. A kind of jig or farce. Garlic mustard, a European plant of the mustard family (Alliaria officinalis) which has a strong smell of garlic. Garlic pear tree, a tree in jamaica (Crataeva gynandra), bearing a fruit which has a strong scent of garlic, and a burning taste.

Origin: oe. Garlek, as. Garleac; gar spear, lance _ leac leek. See gar, and leek.


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... problems in his diet book. I found I lost no weight on his strict two-week induction diet until I'd undergone a month of anti-fungal treatment: garlic, pro-biotics and a strict diet. Worth a try for anyone with sugar problems.

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... I have noticed might be a problem for me is eating white breads. I noticed now, twice, that my tummy immediately grows after I ingest bread items (garlic bread, pastas, etc.). I am personally going to try to cut out white breads and pastas and see what it might do for me. I will respond back if ...

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drink type 1 diabetic's blood

Keep a hefty supply of garlic and crosses; you never know what could happen, so always keep protection with you. :wink:

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by Jammerz
Wed Dec 12, 2007 6:48 am
 
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Wait what? garlic is for vampires isn't it? Silver bullets are for werewolf's!

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