The garlic mask
In the Middle Ages, during epidemics, physicians are said to have soaked the masks they wore in garlic juice. Herodotus also writes that onions, radishes and garlic were handed out to the workers building the pyramid of Cheops. An old method in Anatolia for expelling worms: a peeled clove of garlic is rubbed well into a piece of bread crust, and the bread, having taken in the smell, is eaten.
Source: Turhan Baytop, Türkiye’de Bitkiler ile Tedavi: Geçmişte ve Bugün, 3. baskı (yay. haz. Feza Baytop Günergun), Nobel Tıp Kitabevleri, Ankara, 2021 (Baytop, Türkiye’de Bitkiler ile Tedavi (Plant Healing in Turkey), 2021). This is a folk record, not a treatment recommendation.
Flour sprinkled on wounds: yarrow