Throughout history the Egyptians preached about the value and properties of garlic, the Olympic athletes of Greece chewed it before competing and, in darker years, it was said that garlic helped keep vampires away ... Garlic has properties that favor the proper functioning of the heart and, along with citrus fruits, oranges and lemons, helps protect against constipation and cough. According to an old legend "when Satan left the Garden of Eden after temptation, a garlic came out of the ground where he put his left foot and an onion where he put his right foot." To take advantage of the properties of garlic, you have to eat them raw