I always put some in my soup or stew.
Ah... the pieces fall into place. Dad hated garlic, and was deathly allergic to sulpha drugs. Duh. I've known for decades that alliums contain sulpher compounds....
Sometimes it just takes a half century for all the pieces to fall into place and I can feel appropriately dumb.
Thanks for this article.
/johnny
Not only garlic, but quite a few other spices and seasonings. The typical kitchen spice rack is loaded with natural antimicrobials and anti-inflammatories, even the much derided salt. An excellent preservative, along with sugar as well as vinegar, salt is. The war on salt is gravely misguided. Salt is not bad, retaining too much is.
Most of the time the crap you get from food poisoning runs its course within a day. No need to take any meds, just deal with it and hate it.
hmmm
You can never have too much garlic.
This is why Italian food has so much in it :P
This could also help explain the heart benefits to garlic, since many heart problems are related to low-level infections from things like gum disease.
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...
I saw a documentary once on TV where garlic repels vampires.
sarc/off
Garlic and apple cider vinegar - food of the Gods.
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.
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.