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To: nickcarraway

You can never have too much garlic.


16 posted on 05/02/2012 8:55:07 PM PDT by Dragonspirit (Always remember President Token won only by defecting on his CFR pledge.)
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To: Dragonspirit
You can if you cut yourself badly. It's an anticoagulant right up there with aspirin. If you're on prescription blood thinning substances such as Coumadin, you might want to look at reducing the dosage if you plan to start supplementing with garlic tabs or gelcaps. It messed my dad's dosage up to the point that he developed petechiae, purple splotches beneath the skin from broken capillaries.

My question to his heart specialist was, if garlic is so effective, why isn't that part of the therapy, reducing or even supplanting Coumadin entirely? Never got a satisfactory answer.

Green leafy vegetables such as collard greens can have the same effect.

20 posted on 05/02/2012 9:05:27 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Dragonspirit

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.


22 posted on 05/02/2012 9:08:28 PM PDT by One Name (Go to the enemy's home court and smoke his ass.)
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