Maybe the $100 supplements are just a marketing gimmick? I've been eating raw garlic - yep, uncooked, just peeled, RAW - it tastes crappy but I just chew it fast and swish it down with some water.
BAM - this stuff is powerful, just as powerful as any antibiotic I've ever taken. Way more powerful than the fancy garlic supplements I've tried in the past.
Anyone else try this?
Posted by tiffagoo (Member # 23750) on :
I've been thinking about doing the same....thanks for sharing
Posted by birdie67 (Member # 35994) on :
This is also good for parasites.
Posted by ukcarry (Member # 18147) on :
yes, I think many people try this: it is recommended for candida as well.
For me, Biopure's Freeze-dried garlic seems to pack greater punch. I also eat lots of salads and pestos made with wild garlic[bear garlic] in the spring and make tinctures with it. It is supposed to help a lot with metal detox.
Posted by jlcd1 (Member # 18138) on :
ya know our grocery store, hannaford sells marinated garlic. It's raw but really good. My mother always buys it, I guess I should start.
Posted by Larae30 (Member # 35220) on :
I like to soak cloves in apple cider vinegar.
Posted by Porsche (Member # 7644) on :
juicing it is even better.....that way you can get a lot more into your system, and it's really concentrated
Posted by MichaelTampa (Member # 24868) on :
I did it many years ago before I knew I had lyme. It ate up the esophageal wall / stomach lining in a couple weeks and ended up in a lot of pain from that. I was probably weak in that area before the garlic, but definitely could not tolerate that.
Posted by Truesun (Member # 19735) on :
My son and I eat raw garlic daily and it has been one of our biggest helps. We chew it with bites of other food. Not alone. Four to eight cloves daily
Posted by 'Kete-tracker (Member # 17189) on :
*I* always thought so. And you can "end up smelling like an Italian pizzaria" for a whole lot Less than those green 'Allicun' capsules! (Not to knock 'em. Zhang's product line is good stuff.)
I go to my local Natural Foods, get a couple fresh "bulbs", break up into the cloves... Then slice it up fine & add- raw or slightly saut�ed- into the dinner dish. Posted by Robin123 (Member # 9197) on :
My chiropractor recently remarked that eating a clove of garlic a day could keep bugs away - anyone familiar with that "prescription"?
Posted by Keebler (Member # 12673) on :
- Up to two medium sized cloves per day, as long as it sits well. More than two and anemia can occur, as per a book I have about Garlic.
Garlic can burn tender G.I. tissue badly so back off if things get too steamy. Coconut oil can help offset the burn to a degree.
Also, best not to take too late in the day as garlic can be stimulating for those with lyme. Adrenal support can help balance that.
Healing Powers of Garlic - Jensen -
Posted by Haley (Member # 22008) on :
Anyone using raw garlic? How much are you using. I put one clove in my juicer. It feels stronger than medicine, but it does bother my stomach.
Just curious if anyone has results from this.
Posted by Cass A (Member # 11134) on :
Dear Friends,
One of my best friends is a homeopathic doctor, and he recommends taking a clove of garlic, cutting it into 4 pieces, dipping them in olive oil, and "down the hatch" -- he says 4 cloves a day. That's for healthy people.
Dr. K says that garlic loses most of its health benefits to oxygen in the air within a few minutes, which is why he freeze-dries his supplement.
If I were taking garlic, I'd start with ONE fresh clove a day, cut up and dipped in oil, and work up. Die-off reactions and I don't get along all that well......
My husband takes regular garlic pills to keep his blood pressure down (since years before either of us got Lyme) and they work splendidly for that purpose. He also has Lyme, but his symptoms are very mild. Perhaps those pills have been helping him with the Lyme infection all this time, and we never even knew it?
Best,
Cass A
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
I cut a clove up one time and swallowed it like a pill. Posted by gmb (Member # 23562) on :
I have one large or a few small cloves most nights with dinner. I slice the clove into 6 or eight morsals and serve them on my salad plate along with a few jalipeno peppers.
The garlic morsals get eaten mixed in between bites of the rest of my meal and salad.
I've had some raw clove burn hotter than the jalopinos.
gmb
Posted by FamilyFive (Member # 37206) on :
So do you get the same benefits from just swallowing it vs. chewing it or eating it crushed? How long before you start to feel benefits?
I ate crushed garlic early on, pre abx, and smelled bad and had a terrible taste in my mouth constantly.
Posted by TF (Member # 14183) on :
The doc who cured me told me to eat raw garlic twice per day or take Kyolic.
I did it as part of my lyme treatment. That was 7 1/2 years ago.
Posted by GiGi (Member # 259) on :
Make certain you eat only organically grown garlic and certified as that. Much garlic is more toxic than we are. It took the people manufacturing Biopure's garlic capsules a long time to find a field/conditions to safely grow uncontaminated garlic.
None of us need more of what we are trying to get rid of: Toxic metals, pesticides, herbicides, any of the 80,000 and growing chemicals, etc. etc. Garlic is the master in absorbing this stuff.
Take care.
Posted by Haley (Member # 22008) on :
I decided to do raw garlic because of the Germanium content. I am also taking germanium supplements. I believe this is why it is so beneficial.
TF did you do the raw garlic 2x per a day? For how long. I am starting to think this stuff is really, really important.
I challenge anyone here to start doing raw garlic with me and report back the results. At least one clove a day.
Posted by ukcarry (Member # 18147) on :
When I had the Detoxigenomic test, I found that Garlic was one of the drugs/substances that my liver may have problems handling because of my genetic polymorphisms. my NAET practitioner tested me for freeze dried garlic and also commented that it was stressing my liver.
I mention this just to remind people that it may not suit everybody.
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