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Kyrgyzstan, along with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, is the “center of origin” for garlic, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. Even today, garlic only truly grows wild in central Asia, In ancient Chinese and Indian medicine, garlic was used for its perceived medicinal qualities. How it ever got to Italy is anyone’s guess, but researchers think it probably arrived sometime during the Middle Ages. Whether garlic does indeed ward off vampires is also anyone’s guess.