GARLIC

 

Records show that people in India and Egypt grew garlic more than 5,000 years ago, which makes it one of the earliest farmed crops. The French believed garlic saved hundreds of lives from the plague in 1720.
Garlic was used to protect people from cholera, typhoid fever, and diphtheria. In the flu outbreak of 1917-1918, people wore garlic necklaces to keep the illness away.