- Keeps off serpents, but after they have bitten, the cloves and leaves are roasted and added to oil to be applied as a liniment
- Repels scorpions and other beasts
- Good for shrew bites and dog bites (as an ointment with honey)
- Effective for healing hemorrhoids "when taken with wine and brought up by vomiting"
- Neutralizes the poisonous qualities of aconite and henbane
- Excellent for bruises, even after they have swollen into blisters
- Useful taken with vinegar for relieving tooth-ache
- Garlic mixed with goose-grease is placed into the ears
- Relieves hoarseness, checks phthiriasis and scurf if taken boiled with milk or beaten up with soft cheese
- Cooked in oxymel (vinegar and honey) it removes tape-worms and other parasites in the intestines
- Mixed with fat, it cures suspected tumors
- Epilepsy may be cured when garlic is taken in food
- Garlic brings sleep
- It improves circulation, making the body of a "ruddier color."
- Garlic acts as an aphrodisiac when taken in wine with coriander
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