Garlic may well be a toxin (Page 2 of 2)

Ohhhhhhhhh
Fried garlic it is sooooo tasteful as a spice...
Well, fried probably is less worst.

Count Dracula also recommends no garlic

I recently learned that garlic lowers one's blood pressure and so obviously has incredible power in replacing all those high blood pressure medications that hook you into a life long dependence - if you stop taking them you go even higher than you were before. I wouldn't therefore be surprised to see a lot of negative stuff about garlic as with all natural remedies providing independence from the pharma co's. I know about the lowering blood pressure effect because I actually suffer from low blood pressure -as in feeling faint and week when standing for long periods or standing up too fast- and have found that if I have too much garlic in a meal, say the combined total of a couple of cloves (cooked not raw), I feel incredibly tired and disorientated as if having narcolepsy or really low blood sugar levels. That would explain why pilots don't take it before flying - aside from lowering reaction time, they need their blood pressure to remain fairly constant if not rather high in order to pull those high g moves without blacking out.

http://www.rense.com/general76/Dpi.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1939485.stm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garlic
Garlic is used for thousandths years!
A substance being bad for cat&dogs do not mean it is the same for humans.

Hummm...
As the difference between poison and remedy is the dosage, I bet small use
as spice is not bad.

Hmm, I have also been eating a lot of garlic as of late in cooked meals, though haven't been taking it as a supplement. 

Soloflecks, you mention your health has been better, how about your meditative abilities, do you feel more/less/the same connected, when you're on garlic?  I think that was the point of BD's original post.

I think it may be a ripe time for me to test... ie. stop eating it for a while, and see how it affects mental/spiritual states.  If I notice anything I'll do a follow up post.

The eating of garlic aside, I recently discovered another use for the stuff. I've got several moles on my body which I decided it was about time I got rid of, so I looked into laser treatment or cosmetic surgery to remove them. The cost would have been obscene (well over £1000 total), so I looked around for alternative methods. In so doing I found several forums on the net where the use of garlic is recommended for mole removal and I thought 'yeah right!'. But after researching some more and reading lots of convincing stories about how effective it is, I decided to give it a crack.

Well, I ate my words because it works! If done properly there is only slight scarring, which is often the same result  following the more expensive methods. For a total cost of less than a few £'s I have so far saved myself around a grand's worth of expensive treatment at one of the money grabbing High Street skin clinics that have recently sprung up in abundance accross the UK.

There is the unfortunate side effect of smelling dodgy for a few days while you apply the treatment, so don't bother trying to pull during this time