Kickas.org Forums Treatments, Drugs and Alternatives NSD and diet-related; Raw Garlic!

hi llthomps,

a very small number of people on this forum have had trouble with foods that have a lot of inulin fibre in them (and garlic is one of those foods). I myself have reacted to garlic in the past.

Some of the foods I react to IMHO have more to do with toxicity and my poor liver than anything else (eg: alcohol, preservatives, vinegar). The inflammation I get from these toxicity issues always clear up very quickly.. say about 12 hours.

Keep it up with the garlic though as it seems to do most people a lot of good!
I would like to give garlic another shot sometime soon. Perhaps my reaction to garlic was a 'herx reaction'? or perhaps it was a bit too strong for my weak liver? or then again maybe the inulin really was feeding some rogue microbe ?

all the best,
z

I've been doing more research on garlic and have found a couple sources saying that the allicin in crushed raw garlic kills intestinal KP outside the colon, where the body doesn't want it. That's a heads up for you NSD/LSD people.

It also kills E. Coli and Salmonella, and is more effective than anti-fungals at fighting intestinal fungus. Go Garlic.

The experience of chewing garlic hasn't gotten any better. I've been told to wrap a spinach leaf around it.

Very interesting post, thanks for posting.

Raw garlic simply shreds Candida to pieces, but also will cause withdrawal symptoms (herx reaction), so beware!

I read this on one of the sites Jeanne was distributing, so she may be able to guide anyone through how to avoid this.

Garlic is fabulous stuff. For an approximate six week period last summer, I was including cloves of raw garlic in my juice. I started juicing one clove the first week, two the second, and continued juicing three cloves for the remaining duration. No wonder I was so lonely last summer! I still throw a clove in with my juice from time to time.

Hello!

How's it going with the garlic?

Btw I just noticed on "the list" that garlic has 14,2% starch in it?

Best regards

No chance in me eating garlic, no way, no how. Garlic has natural sulfer in it. It causes me such stress. I can't breath, my stomach bloats, my severe sleep apnea goes into the severe range. I have to also take medication for asthma, and my GERDs becomes severely uncontrolled. This is the same with anything that has natural sulfa, sulfer, sulfites, and sulfates.

Today instead of cabbage rolls, I had grapeleaves, with rice and hamburger in them, with tomatoe juices. It beats dealing with severe pain.

Hugs

Gerri

The Garlic goes pretty well. I still stink, and I still don't particularly enjoy eating it, but it (combined with some other things I'm doing), has allowed me to cut back my NSAIDs from 3 a day to one at night when my symptoms pick up.

RE: starch content
It does have starch, but the allicin (which is produced from the crushing of garlic) is toxic to Klebseilla, as well as a number of other intestinal bacteria. I've read, but not confirmed, that Garlic also encourages the growth of beneficial intestinal bacteria, like Lactobacillus.

A couple of notes about Garlic I learned personally in the past week:

1) It has an anti-inflammatory (anti-platelet) called Ajoene.

2) Taking raw garlic in combination with some pharmaceutical anti-inflammatories (indomethacin) will noticeably amplify the effects of the anti-inflammatory, which is awesome in the short term.

3) In the long term, this will quicken the side-effects, and you may up with gastritis or an ulcer.

I ended up with gastritis, which was, to quote the bard, f***ing awful.