A perennial herbaceous plant, a popular vegetable crop in many cultures around the world. Historical facts In ancient China, garlic also had a familiar side use. Garlic - along with noise and hubbub - was supposed to scare away evil spirits during the funeral ceremony. In Rus', garlic appeared in epic times, around the 9th century. And not from the west, but from the south - from Byzantium. Unusual Properties Household use: A necklace of garlic cloves will scare away some infections. Application in cooking Dried garlic is used instead of fresh when frying and boiling meat and poultry, cooking soups, aspics and jellies, homemade sausages, mushroom and vegetable pickles. The meat is rubbed with dried garlic before cooking, and garlic is added to soups 3-5 minutes before cooking. In world culinary: Garlic is irreplaceable in Ukrainian, Greek, Turkish, Mexican, Italian, Hungarian, Romanian, Spanish national cuisines. Application in medicine medicinal properties: Garlic is a broad spectrum antibiotic. It kills a very large number of a wide variety of bacteria. Increases appetite, enhances the secretion of the stomach, liver, intestines, diuretic, antihelminthic, antimicrobial, antispasmodic, antiatherogenic, analgesic, anticoagulant (prevents platelet aggregation, fibrinolytic), antioxidant.