well, i know garlic is a potent antimicrobial, used for thousands of years, used to control infections during ww1, safe obviously because we eat it, but the problem is it can’t be patented, so it’s usually relegated to the, you are a quack, category.
We had a tech who was a BIG fan of garlic, big doses to help control his blood pressure. I suppose it worked, but you didn’t want to spend a lot of time downwind.
Friar’s Balsam was used in WWI also...pre-penicillin. I keep it in my medicine cabinet today.
My favorite unpatentable is sunshine. It kills or prevents colds and seasonal influenza. I suspect it may mitigate the WuHan flu. I would love to see a study comparing the symptoms of lack there of between outdoors people who expose skin to the sun a lot and office workers.Sunshine is also probably the only effective medicine for clinical and other Depression. I know for a fact it has ended manic depression in three people I have induced to “get out in the sun every day!” one being my daughter. One woman was severe with cycles of increasing amplitude and believed by all her family to be headed to suicide.The third took my advice then told me six months later that it made her feel so good she stopped taking her methadone. I had not known anything about the methadone. But no government person or pharma person will say anything but “old wives tales” that will only cause skin cancer.”