Kimchi is FERMENTED and that is what makes it healthy.
FERMENTED FOOD are natural antibiotics.
I had very bad cough for almost 6 months the beginning of last year. I was about to go to the doctor because I thought I had a lung infection. I happened to be reading about natural antibiotics and they mentioned how fermented foods like sauerkraut and also garlic had ‘penicillin-like’ qualities.
I ate 2 spoons of sauerkraut and minced garlic 3 times a day for 3 days and my lungs cleared up completely. I have used this several more times for minor cuts that got infected. BEST antibiotic I have ever used.
carefukl with garlick- i ate too much of it and am now allergic to it- get wicked sick on it now- even small amounts- have to be careful what i eat at rester aunts now- I used to love love love garlic bread too-
My experience in S. Korea during sixteen months stationed there was the people often experienced severe stomach pain from over indulgence of Kimchi, thus my commentary on the use of Gelusil. It was quite common.
Thanks for that suggestion for a natural healing food.
“2 spoons of sauerkraut and minced garlic 3 times a day for 3 days and my lungs cleared up completely. “
Thanks, very good information, and very easy. Will try next time I need an antibiotic, which is rarely.
Me too. I got strep throat last spring. I thought “you don’t fool around with strep” so i went to the doc and got on an antibiotic. A week after it was done, the strep came right back. He gave me a STRONGER antibiotic. I was so upset to even take something that destroys the whole immune system but I did that round too. One week later, the strep was back. I was DONE with “medicine” at that point. I researched online, and made a tiny bowl of chopped raw garlic(must be from USA, not china) and raw honey, maybe 2 tbsp each, with about 1/2-1 tsp cayenne powder mixed in. I ate a teaspoonful of this many times a day and started getting better. It was a slow better, taking about a week, but thereafter the steep NEVER came back.
So I use this mix for all kinds of colds, flus, infections now too.
For people who just will NOT eat these things, make a “tea” of them. Into boiling water drop a few smashed garlic cloves, turn off the heat and let it steep. Then strain or spoon the garlic out. Add the raw honey, as sweet as your patient needs. Most people will drink it as a warm tea, and add a dash of cayenne if they can handle it (kids and elderly might not). If that also doesn’t work, because they don’t drink hot drinks, make the garlic “tea,” add the honey, plenty of it, and let cool completely. Then juice a couple lemons. Combine the two and add fresh cold water and you have “lemonade” and kids will drink it and not know about the garlic! They probably will not want the cayenne, though.
I was stationed in Korea for 18 months, ate kimchi almost everyday. Came back home to my wife and she said I stink of garlic. Wish there was a way to mask the smell of garlic, because I really like kimchi.