When foods become remedies in ancient Greece: The curious case of garlic and other substances

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 167, Issue , 2015, Pages 30-37

  Totelin, Laurence ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dietetics; Food drug continuum; Garlic; Hippocratic corpus; History; Silphium

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COOKING; DIETETICS; GARLIC; GREECE; HUMAN; MEDICINAL PLANT; SILPHIUM; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; ASTERACEAE; FOOD; HISTORY;

ALLIUM SATIVUM; SILPHIUM;

DRUG;

ASTERACEAE; FOOD; GARLIC; GREECE; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS;

EID: 84928812562     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: 18727573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2014.08.018     Document Type: Article

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