someplace I read a poster saying that chewing garlic helped him with COVID...i have read that about colds but you might lose the allicin with roasting
It has to be raw to get medicinal benefit.
Yes, this is true............People will avoid you like the plague..............
“ someplace I read a poster saying that chewing garlic helped him with COVID...”
Well, it does promote social distancing...
I remember in the ‘60’s, my mom rubbing raw garlic on us when we had the mumps. I can’t recall if it worked!
If he's garlicky enough, no one will want to get close enough to infect him!
Any time I use garlic, which is a lot, I cut off the bottom 1/4 inch or so and eat it raw.
I’ve used garlic, vitamin C and cayenne pepper to ward off colds for 30 years. Enough cayenne by itself to make you sweat will stop a cold in its tracks, if you eat it as soon as you start the first few sneezes and you know a cold is coming on. The trick is to catch it early.
At times when powdered red pepper is all I had, I would ball up about a half teaspoon in part of a slice of bread and munch. Keep at it till I’m sweating. Cold is long gone the next morning.
Big pharma does not want you to know about garlic, vitamin c, cayenne and ginger. They make BILLIONS every year on useless “cold remedies” that do little other than reduce a fever and the amount of cash in your wallet. Aspirin or ibuprofen will help reduce a fever, take it and bundle up, sweat it out. Lots cheaper than useless Nyquil too. I keep cayenne in the kitchen all the time, just got some dried peppers and chopped up in a blender a week ago. $3 and I’m good for another year. Grew tabasco and habanero for many years too, now my soil is depleted, letting it rest.
Garlic, ginger and cayenne are known in herbal circles as tonics. That means good for your system overall, rather than any specific use, like willow bark can be used for a headache. (that’s where aspirin comes from). Cayenne is one of the best things you can ever put in your mouth. Research it. Capsicum is the proper name for the oil it contains, the hot stuff.
I haven’t had a cold in many years. Until I hit 60, the flu once every 3 or 4 years, then 2 1/2 years ago pneumonia nearly killed me. Now it’s dicey, but till pneumonia, colds and flu were a weak threat at best. Now I have COPD, scarring in my lungs from pneumonia. And 45 yewrs of smoking, finally quit after pneumonia, only good thing that came from it.
Not sure how much garlic had to do with it, but the last time I put on a mask was about late May, it cuts off my oxygen supply and I’m hyperventilating in 2 minutes or less, overheated, sinuses go nutz, and hypercapnia. (overload of co2). I haven’t avoided grocery store, shopping in general, yard sales, resale shops...and so far not even a runny nose much less killed by covid.
1000 mg vitamin c every night, garlic fairly regular, cayenne too. Just started again on ginger tea some evenings.
I just might end up living long enough to be an old fart yet...