Garlic cure viruses

However, there is no evidence that garlic consumption can help in protecting individuals from coronavirus. Theories and myths are spreading as quickly as the virus. For instance, there have been myths that stated that marijuana, sesame oil, and garlic could help fight the virus.

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Planta Medica. Last week I was working in a dustier then usual area at work. And even though I had a mask on, still felt the familiar twinge of a sinus infection taking hold. I started taking 3 garlic cloves a day. One in the morning, one before work I work afternoon shift and one at night. I chop it up fairly fine, let it sit about 10 minutes and down it with a glass of water with 2 tsp of Braggs natural Apple cider vinegar. Love that garlic is also so inexpensive!

If its not highly pungent and freshly peeled then its not as effective. I just ate a garlic clove because I have the worst cold ever but I do have a question…why did my stomach hurt after I ate it and also I breastfeed my one year old.. Anyone please help me…. Good news if the mucous is starting to move its way out! My husband is now doing so as well. BTW, once my husband starts to sweat, the garlic gives him a whole new stink.

I came down with a cold yesterday after flying. I made Lebanese garlic sauce with canola oil and lemon juice. That has a ton of raw garlic. I just ate it with some blue tortilla chips. I usually crunch down and store it under my tongue and move it around my gums with each slight bite. It seems to work immediately with the onset of a cold as far as sinus or sore throat issues are concerned.

This does need repeated frequently to offset the symptoms. I believe this works twofold…. Just the way I handle things I guess.

As a person who is into the homeopathic and naturopathic ways of treating illnesses interest only. I am not a doctor , I am a firm believer in the healing properties of garlic. I eat raw garlic as often as I can, more so when I have been ill. I fell ill with a stomach bug a few years ago and I did not have any appetite. The only thing that I could really bring myself to eat was yogurt. I ate some raw garlic and I felt the the nausea instantly go away. I also ate raw garlic when I had a head cold.

Eating raw garlic has helped me to recover faster from illnesses. Eating raw garlic is no joke. Had a cold so bad I ended up on my in pain reached for my phone and found this site you saved me.

I am having running nose from last 4 years , tried a lot but have no result than i swallow two garlic a day and it works i am having a clear nose with in seven days,thanks god for garlic. I tried to rinse it down with water but I coughed, some of the garlic still remained in mouth and tiny bits of it passed through my nasal passage.

I felt instant relief when it got to my nose. After I swallowed it, I got nauseous but I saved my effort by taking teasepoonful of sugar Only after 15 minutes I feel a whole lot better! I plan to do this again after 4 hours. I love the taste of garlic and I am well-known for it at home. Well I woke up with a terrible sore throat on Sunday morning and seem to have come down with one of the fastest progressing and most aggressively painful colds.

I wanted raw garlic yesterday but I finally picked some up today. I peeled it a clove and straight into my mouth.. I very slowly worked away at it approx 2 hours with my teeth to keep a constant burn going while intermittently breathing-in deeply through my mouth and out of my nose. Boy did it have a strong positive effect: my nose is no longer stuffy this was remedied quickly and my throat pain is almost unnoticeable.

I will eat another clove before bed and see if I can finally get some sleep tonight since Sunday night I was unable to sleep as I felt close to death.

I heard about crushed garlic, so I did some buttered toast with crushed garlic three times per day. Worked like a charm, in three days my sinus infection was almost gone. What works best for me is cutting a clove in half and putting one half in each cheek.

The next day all symptoms were gone …… Excellent I recommend it!!!! Went to bed with a fever, weak body, watery eyes, headache, sneezing…. I feel completely restored! I chopped a Poo full a. It knocked out my fever from night til morning!

What I do is chop it up, sometimes letting it sit for about 10 minutes, sometimes I eat it right then. I chop up 3 cloves and eat them with a spoon of peanut butter. Believe it or not, the two flavors go well together and I actually enjoy it. My roommate has been fighting a sinus infection for nearly a week. She has a lot of lung congestion. I have no lung congestion. I am convinced this is due to the raw garlic I eat.

I eat cloves of garlic a day diced or mashed, let sit in air for a few minutes, put between 4 thin slices of apple and presto! Two sandwiches.

Great energy drink and shall I say, quite spicy to the newcomer, just start slow. I use raw garlic when I start getting a cold. What I do is minceup a couple of clove and put a pair of socks on after putting the garlic on the souls of my feet.?

Within 5 minutes its on my breath. Its fantastic. Halves colds and gets rid of other chest infections. I gotten the flu from one of my family members who passed it to everyone else and finally I passed it to my husband. We ate a clover of fresh garlic every other hour and within a couple hours we were feeling like nothing ever happened.

Had a nasty cold start last night with bad sinus pressure ears and teeth aching. Just finished my second clove. Will see what happens…. I can definitely vouch for garlic effectiveness. Works better than any over the counter medicine without subscription. Albeit the anti social part is true as well D:. So i only resolve to it when i am either really sick or need to get better really quick.

I was in so much pain with the throat hurting coughing, headache. And suck on a large piece.. God Bless,happy and healthy again in the Midwest. Chewing on a piece of garlic as i read your blog, great post! I have always believed in Garlic and often make a large batch of Roaster Garlic Soup for fighting colds in the Winter. As Head Gardener we grow our own garlic and it seems even stronger than the shop bought bulbs.

Currently using Garlic to fight of a sore throat and the start of a cold. Appreciate this article very informative. Just a quick question. When u say clove, u mean that one bit of the whole bulb, right?

There is a lot of confusion on the word clove because where I come from, a clove is the whole bunch!! I used to eat a clove or three of garlic at the first sign of a cold. Chopped or mashed a little salt helps into a paste. Let it sit for a few minutes to develop. Then spread on buttered cheap bread, which I usually rolled up. I have been taking garlic for years a few times a week.

After a few minutes the garlic rises to the top of the glass, then drink or down pretending its a shot! Garlic is a wonder drug, best kept secret in my opinion. The simplest method is to drink raw garlic with some water just like taking tablets. First finely grate or crush the clove, add to a little water then drink immediately. I take a clove an hour when I have a cold and it goes very quickly. It works even if research says otherwise!!

I just wanted to share my experience with raw garlic. I have been able to defeat colds after the first day of symptoms by downing a clove or two of raw garlic with honey. It is the best natural remedy for anything I have ever tried. Truly a miracle remedy!! I just had a huge raw clove on the advice of my daughter. I chewed it up, and it felt as though my mouth was burning, and I swallowd on an empty stomach. I wish I read this first. I thought I was going to vomit.

But my nose is much clearer already and my throat is not as sore. So, I imagine that it is working already. Would I do it again? I highly doubt it. Maybe the honey mixture. But it has to be cooked.

Thank you all for taking the time to publish your techniques and results. But I knew raw would be better so tried it but with an empty stomach made me too sick. I will do this every 4 hours and see where it is at in the morning. Thank Everyone! Peace and Health for the New Year! It takes no time to blitz in my mini food processor and taste great. I find that a very enjoyable way of getting in the raw garlic. You could drizzle over hot food as well. I chop the garlic into small pieces hold it in my mouth for 2 mins.

Wow…i have a flu,really disturbing,i have started on garlic mixed with yogurt…mmm good idea.. I make an olive oil bread dip with freshly minced garlic and it has helped me fight off a couple colds.

I know that it was the garlic because within about 16 hours of following the 1 clove every hours method, I smelled like garlic and I felt better bad breath is a small price to pay to feel better.

Prior to consuming the garlic, I saw no progress whatsoever despite rest and fluids. I have shared my garlic story with many friends and family and despite their hesitation to try it, they tried it and are convinced it helped significantly. Eat with white Italian bread for the best flavor. I just ate one after dinner and I got a headache but it subdueded after 5 minutes.

It tastes disgusting. Also its burning my tongue so I have to drink water after each bite. Its really not that bad. Nothing like a good bit of garlic. And it was soooo spicy.

What was in it other than a bit of cayenne and a few other spicy things … raw garlic. I felt great! Try it. They also had a few other flavours that look terrific. Just was at the tail end of what I thought was strep throat. In fact it was more painful than the strep I had before. I started chewing small pieces on a clove of garlic and the burn was a little to much.

I tried to chew up the garlic as much as possible along with the rest of the bite and only got a little burn. Down two garlic cloves in 2 hours and feel much better already. I wonder if I should leave the last couple of slices on the counter and see the kids trip out when they steal a slice after school.

I always have a jar of minced garlic in my refrigerator. I put some on saltine crackers and just eat them down. I also make a healing drink of hot water, apple cider vinegar, lemon juice and honey. The oldest remedies are always the best!! I was coughing non stop a few minutes ago.. I had a fever 2 days ago and now my throat was sore, swollen, and my cough has been keeping me up at night.

Popped in a clove of garlic and started sucking on it. Very intense but it seemed to calm my throat down a lot. Even bit little pieces off, chewed, and swallowed.. That burned a bit but seemed to help even more. I really hope this works! I just started getting a sore throat last night. Wish me luck! Like Cinna, I had this really bad cough that I will start having coughing fits non-stop.

And the worse thing is when I take public transport, I will have to alight the train just so I could cough till my fill to get rid of that itchy, prickly feeling at the throat. Anyway, I decide to make garlic water to drink. The weird thing is after taking the garlic water, I will go through this torturing process where I will feel nauseous, my stomach feels weird and pain, I will go to the toilet to release the dump but just once. I took the garlic water once on a Monday then on a Wednesday.

The same process happened during Wednesday. Can anyone explain to me what is happening here? Does it mean the garlic water is working on cleansing my insides thus the excruciating process? Or my stomach is in a very bad shape? Take care everyone. Lots of people getting sick. Peel a fresh clove, bite a little bit into it to get the juice out and suck it. I find it knocks out my Sore throat.

The 1st Time I had the clove it was hard to suck on, then I got over it, and I enjoyed it now. The first time is the hardest. The results are undeniable. I put garlic inside my mouth, drink mouthful water to keep it floating inside my mouth, start chewing it and try your best to keep it floating and avoid touching your tongue with it, when you feel it is small enough, swallow it with the water all at once.

There is a little garlic breath since you chew it on your teeth. Easy, timesaving method. I bit into it and sucked the juices out for 15 minutes as you said and OMG my annoying cough is gone!!!! I only wish I had looked this up sooner and now garlic will always be in any house I live in till the day I die.

Thank you if I am actually going to sleep with a clove by my bed tonight in case it comes back I am so grateful to you for writing this, why did I waist my time with lemons and honey all this time. I was born in Eastern Europe, and in my homecountry this is known by anyone, that fresh garlic helps the cold and flu. Yesterday I got caught up in a cold rain and came home in the evening feeling really fluish.

Ate some fresh garlic and went straight to bed — woke up this morning with no sign of flu. The only downside other than the smell — it makes me feel really hot at night, I keep waking up to drink some water. But it definitively works, proven by generations of Eastern Europeans! Make sure and munch on foods while you do this cause garlic and an empty stomach are not good friends!!! I am breastfeeding my infant son and hesitant to take any medication.

I just came across this and am going to try it, as this is the sickest I have been in several years cold. I cut a clove in half and ate both halves with a spoonful of chicken noodle soup homemade as the real stuff supposedly helps too! I hate taking antibiotics. I tried gargling with ACV and cayenne pepper before I started this last med hoping I could fight this naturally, but no such luck!

I know strep is nothing to mess around with, so I am going to try the garlic on top of my latest med. I am sucking on my 3rd clove today. I love garlic, but this is yucky. Please wish me luck! Good thing he loves me. I suffer with a weak immune system, I came down with a cold two days ago so two hours ago I quartered 2 medium sized cloves, swallowed 6 pieces whole and chewed the last two.

I honestly feel better already, the pressure in my nose is improving and my sore throat has almost gone! Thanks, great article. I also taken it with some pieces of ginger and ground cinnamon as well. The anti-inflammatory properties of ginger have a wonderful effect on me when I am not feeling well. I had the grossest cold where I felt completely congested, I could barely speak. It helped a little bit, slightly noticeable. I took more the next night and my cold is gone!!! I have never gotten over a cold in less than three days so this is really weird!

The first time I tried this was December I felt the achy warnings of a flu coming on. I get sick very rarely. I took an entire bulb, about 12 cloves, and chopped them up. I put a teaspoon at a time into my mouth and would take a gulp of water so I could just swallow without chewing. I did this at about pm one evening. I had a high fever, chills, nausea. Everyone else in my office and family who came down with this bug had at least 5 days they were really sick and some lasted a couple weeks.

A few months later, I felt a cold coming on and I did the same thing. Never surfaced. Today, I woke up with flu symptoms. Fever, aches. I did the same thing and the first part of the day still felt pretty awful,.

About 7 hours after the garlic, the fever disappeared along with all the other symptoms. I swear by this now.

I take 3 or 4 fat cloves or garlic, slice them and put in a salad. I woke up with a sore throat and signs of a cold, so this morning I munched on too garlic cloves with a yeast spread, on toast possibly more of a British thing but the strong taste of the spread really helped to cover the garlic and make it palatable and my throat feels better and no sniffles!

I had a very bad infection in my mouth on a cut gum. The infection was starting to get pus in it. Terrible pain. I cut a garlic clove in half and placed the cut side on the infection and held it there for 5 minutes.

After the burning subsided I felt a much better relief. After 2 days of holding the garlic to the infection 3 times a day my infection is gone. I was so thankful It is gone. Garlic is amazing!! Now pursuing it to not catch the flu my kids have.

So right after I ate lunch, I peeled a clove and cut off the ends and swallowed it whole with a cup of tea. My friend told me to do this for three days and my cold will be gone. Now, by 6 PM my nose has stopped dripping and the congestion is getting better. I should have done this weeks ago!! Anyway, I tried x2 cloves garlic, in my cheeks and under tongue sucked hard and yes it hurt for a bit but you can feel the effects already. Was able to swollen much better and my nose instantly dried out and felt stronger.

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