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Many Hindus, Hare Krishnas, Jains etc also are told to refrain from Garlic for the same reason, that if you want to go on the path of spirituality, it puts your
by amriksohata 6y ago
Many Hindus, Hare Krishnas, Jains etc also are told to refrain from Garlic for the same reason, that if you want to go on the path of spirituality, it puts your nervous system into overdrive and can make you angry, tense and sexually avid too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spPZMB_FFG8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spPZMB_FFG8
This all comes from Ayurveda and Vedas long before medieval times.
- astrange 6y agoThat's interesting because garlic noticeably lowers your blood pressure, so it should make you more relaxed. Also, nobody will want to come near you because you have garlic breath, which seems like a sexual obstacle.
- jan_Inkepa 6y agoIn the pre-modern-dentistry world, the mouth was a very different place to the modern one...I feel like garlic-breath would've been the least of one's worries...