I had terrible problems with mastitis after number three. As soon as I’d finish an antibiotic cycle, the issue would pop back up. I grow garlic so I always have fresh on hand year around. I started popping two cloves a day. The mastitis went away as long as I took it, and number three still has a taste for garlic.
Great thing about garlic is that it’s antiviral as well as an antibiotic. When my family went down like dominos with influenza a few years ago I ate raw cloves of garlic just to avoid the misery and keep on caring for all of them. There is no way to prove that it fought off influenza, but when five out of six people in the same house caught it and only the one who was eating garlic felt fantastic, I believe it works.
I had to cut it into small pieces and swallow them like pills to get it down. Even then the rough edges tripped my gag reflex enough that I can’t do that on a regular basis. I made a garlic tincture and am happy with it.
Word of caution with garlic tincture-it must be alcohol (vodka or brandy) to prevent botulism. Some herbs can be made into a glycerite, but not garlic.