Sawbones: Asafoetida
Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine
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Is Garlic an Antidote?
The name as a fatita is from a far C word, which means resin and then fatitas means smelling extremely unpleasant. So in ancient Rome is when we start to see again, like it was used as a flavoring agent as it is today. But they also began to investigate it as something that could be used as some sort of medicine over the years. They thought it was maybe an antidote for some sort of overdose. Maybe just because it's like pungent, it would wake you up.
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