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<p>"Let food be your medicine, medicine your food."<br> -Hippocrates, 2400 B.C.</p> <p>When the "Father of Medicine" uttered those famous words, spices were as important for medicine, embalming, preserving food, and masking bad odors as they were for more mundane culinary matters. Author James A. Duke predicts that spices such as capsicum, cinnamon, garlic, ginger, onion, and turmeric will assume relatively more medicinal importance again, as the economic costs and knowledge of the side-effects of prescription pharmaceuticals increase. After all, each spice contains thousands of useful phytochemicals. Pharmaceuticals usually contain only one or two.</p> <p>Discover the Science behind the Folklore</p> <p>Spices are important medicines that have withstood the empirical tests of millennia. Nearly 5,000 years ago Charak, the father of Ayurvedic medicine, claimed that garlic lightens the blood, reduces tumors, and is an aphrodisiac tonic. Today scientists say it thins the blood, prevents cancer, and increases libido. For centuries people worldwide have used spices to cure a myriad of ailments and to preserve foods. Now science is proving that these spices may preserve us with their anti

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Author

James A. Duke (editor)

Publisher

CRC Press LLC

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780367395766

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Health & Fitness, Science