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The Poor Man&`&s Cure-all
穷人的灵丹妙药
Having one of the world's largest garlic crops, Gilroy, California is known as the "garlic capital of the world."
On a hot summer day, a pungent odor rises from this farming town which can be smelled miles away.
All you have to do is roll down the window of your car and you know you're in Gilroy.
Believing that garlic helps the body fight many forms of diseases, people add garlic to their cooking in many parts of the world.
Moreover, it&`&s popularly used as the poor man&`&s cure-all.
During the First World War it was used as an antiseptic.
And in the Second World War it was known as "Russian penicillin."
Nowadays, thinking that it kills bacteria, some people eat raw garlic as if it were candy.
穷人的灵丹妙药
Having one of the world's largest garlic crops, Gilroy, California is known as the "garlic capital of the world."
On a hot summer day, a pungent odor rises from this farming town which can be smelled miles away.
All you have to do is roll down the window of your car and you know you're in Gilroy.
Believing that garlic helps the body fight many forms of diseases, people add garlic to their cooking in many parts of the world.
Moreover, it&`&s popularly used as the poor man&`&s cure-all.
During the First World War it was used as an antiseptic.
And in the Second World War it was known as "Russian penicillin."
Nowadays, thinking that it kills bacteria, some people eat raw garlic as if it were candy.
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