Before and After Garlic

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Permalink Reply by Macuilxochitl on April 23, 2012 at 6:53pm

Basically, it's like eating a medical drug. Oh~

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Permalink Reply by Freshtival on April 23, 2012 at 7:41pm

 

Hippocrates Quote: " Let your food be medicine and your medicine be your food. "

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Permalink Reply by Macuilxochitl on April 23, 2012 at 7:45pm

Food = food. Medical drug = medical drug.

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Permalink Reply by Sunshine on April 23, 2012 at 7:47pm

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. To us, a ripe red apple entices. To a tiger, a gory red carcass is enticing.

So, in seeing an article that sings the praises of garlic in the November, 1978 issue of Reader's Digest, I wonder what is at the heart of it. Magazines usually don't devote their space to something without a commercial angle unless there is an overriding reader interest. But let's presume this article is simply an effort to present a topic of general interest which they sincerely feel will benefit their readers.

When we get into the article we find that garlic is praised for about everything except its food value. In fact the windup is that garlic is a "flavoring agent," a condiment. But in between we find it is quite toxic (not by the tenor of the article but by some of its uses as an antibiotic and an insecticide). It was noted that its juice can be used as an antibiotic to kill a culture of bacteria in just minutes.

We organic gardeners have long known that we can protect our gardens well by planting garlic amongst some of the rows. Also, it is suggested that the juice of garlic can be used for killing mosquito larvae, aphids, houseflies, caterpillars, etc.

But we of life Science recommend that you not eat garlic because of its poisonous qualities. To be sure, the mustard oil of garlic is the sole ingredient for which it is recommended. And just as surely, it is a poisonous indigestible oil that plays havoc with the human constitution just as does the capsicum of hot peppers, the nicotine of tobacco, the solanine of the nightshade family or any of the myriad of other poisons of popularity referred to as herbs.

There will be a day when garlic and other plants bearing poisons will be recognized for what they are and shunned rather than praised.

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Permalink Reply by Peter Csere on April 24, 2012 at 3:26am

+1

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Permalink Reply by fruitsandnumbers on April 24, 2012 at 9:35pm

he solanine of the nightshade family

can we eat tomatoes, or are they toxic too?

tomatoes are currently my fav... but i am willing to change that if necessary.

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Permalink Reply by Sunshine on April 24, 2012 at 9:46pm

not the leaves, roots or unripe .. ;)

Acute solanine poisoning can happen from ingesting green or sprouted potatoes or green tomatoes with symptoms including cramps, diarrhea, dizziness and sleepiness.

The roots and leaves of the tomato plant are poisonous. They contain the nerve toxin solanine which interferes with the body's ability

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Permalink Reply by Macuilxochitl on April 23, 2012 at 8:09pm

Hippo is saying: eat in such a way that you won't need medicine, that it becomes needless. 
garlic it's like a medicine.

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Permalink Reply by Macuilxochitl on April 23, 2012 at 10:57pm

Bwahaha, I see some major editing has been going on here. Nothing wrong with that, but now my mangled posts make it look like I dunno English. Anyway, the case against garlic is pretty clear enough.

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Permalink Reply by Sunshine on April 23, 2012 at 8:04pm

PS   garlic is not 'food'   :)  pungent allicin

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Permalink Reply by Sunshine on April 23, 2012 at 7:41pm

seems like you lack an understanding of how it is not part of what we do here and why.

you are treading dangerous ground by justifying stuff we DO NOT promote. ;)

garlic 'delicious' ...  no

oh and to answer the question again and more direct no flues or colds at all since doing 811. before they would come and i would use garlic but the harms outweighed the benefits.  (burned skin foul gas horrid body odor ulcers)

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Permalink Reply by Sunshine on April 24, 2012 at 2:27am

hehe what i replied to (promotion) is gone.  just for clarity i am not responding to the original poster in the first 1/2 here.    ;)

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