Posted on 05/02/2012 8:22:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
bttt
Garlic, onions, shallots, scallions,etc. All good.
I add hot peppers.
And hot mustards, wasabe and so forth.
People think I’m nuts, but I don’t go to doctors unless I have a structural injury.
That was my suspicion, but I try not to veer too far into that territory, pharmaceutical medicine has been a tremendous benefit to mankind and is not bad. There is now such a thing as pharmaceutical grade garlic oil gelcaps with a consistent, predictable dosage. There wasn’t then. Perhaps that had something to do with it. It’s more expensive, of course.
You can’t patent garlic and then charge obscene prices for it.
It also cuts into their ‘repeat business” bottom line.
Chewing raw garlic stopped my gum disease completely...no bleeding gums for years...also prone to infected cuts in this tropical climate, and I’ve found a large dose of live garlic stops all sich issues in their tracks, immediately. I’m convinced it outdoes prescription antibiotics, if you can stand eating it live.
In the past I would crush a clove and throw it down the back of my throat, and chase with water...then I developed an abscessed tooth. I ate large amounts, chewing it up, every four hours, and it reversed the pain and infection immediately, in four hours the swelling was s.
To be honest, I never went to the dentist...I can’t afford to give a grandaway, and the garlic was working, so...
That was a few years ago...now every couple nights I chew a clove after brushing, and go to bed...brush my teeth twice in the AM ;^)
May sound crazy, but I swear it’s the cheapest/most effective health/dental insurance you can buy...
Clove oil has the same effect but gentler, if you can’t lay hands on fresh garlic. Garlic is quicker but it’s more than some can bear. Fresh raw crushed garlic is pungent and burns but it works.
I saw a documentary once on TV where garlic repels vampires.
sarc/off
Garlic and apple cider vinegar - food of the Gods.
You can charge a higher price for a closely monitored and controlled dosage of it. Garlic and EPO, Evening Primrose Oil, are the only ones for which this has been done, that I’m aware.
Bingo.
Or I can go to WalMart and buy my own.
:)
I wouldn’t eat garlic if they paid me, that’s not what God made it for, but it does keep out vampires, that has been proven, even the Mormons know it.
I got food poisoning in Ecuador in 1980. No joke - I thought I was dying. Sat in shower for 4 days.
bump GARLIC lovers
If it’s for a more general purpose such as preventive supplementation with hopeful medical benefit in a broader sense, that’s the best course to take. No need spending more than you have to spend, money has gotten so much more dear since 2008.
But, if you’re being treated for heart disease, there does need to be control over dosage or you’ll end up with swings in anticoagulent levels in the blood, leading to possible complications.
I see the value of both.
I found red wine to be a quick cure for food poisoning if you get enough in you after you feel the symptons coming on. No joke.
Nutmeg is good for sleeping.
apple cider vinegar safeguards against food poisoning as well. It purifies the liver and helps digestive health.
“Garlic and apple cider vinegar -food of the Gods.”
People don’t think of cold slaw whem they think of healgh food, buf fod hundreds lf years the remedy for parasites and gut illness/stomach flu was to eat raw cabbage...it also contains hogh levels of vitamin C...Captain Cook carried barrels of sauerkraut to the Douth Seas as an antiscorbutic.
If you put a drizzle of applecider vinegar into cabbage, mayo and black pepper, it goes from blah to delicious, and you get a double benefit.
Plus, it’s CHEAP FOOD...am easy way to get kids to eat a raw vegetable...and high fiber!
And since I live on s sailboat, the fact that s head of cabbage will keep a long time w/o refrigeration is a plus.
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