Onion and Garlic- Traditional Family Medicine (Health Series: An Old and Rare Book)

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Suppose that you are asked to point out two plants which are well known for their various uses in medicine, distributed all most all over the world and familiar since very ancient times but are still much neglected and not utilised as much as they deserve. because of their very common placedness, a rather cheapness and an outright prejudice. you can unhesitatingly name onion and garlic under such a circumstance.

There is none who do not know them and probably nowhere, where these two plants and their bulbs are not familiar. Botanically both come under the family Liliaceae which includes many other famous medicinal plants such as aloes (Aloe vera ghrita kumari, asparagus (Asparagus racemosus wild), sarasa parila (Smilax sp.) and the like. Both belong to the same genus Allium which itself consists of over 250 species, distributed all over the world, some of them occurring even in the polar regions. The commonest species of this genus, mainly under cultivation since very ancient times. are onions, garlics, leeks, chives and shallots.