A Garlic Anecdote

An ‘interesting’ use of garlic as medicine

A garlic anecdote

I visited Morocco with a friend a few years back. We aren’t too fond of taking the oft trodden route so we trekked across the mountains based upon a map whose scale was massively misrepresented to us. Having some experience we took a LOT of water, but it wasn’t enough for what turned out to be the scale of the endeavour. Luckily there were clean natural springs around that we utilized. Later on, we used a water source that was far more ropey but given little other choice we filled up, and got dysentery. BAD dysentery. It’s never fun waking up having soiled the sheets whilst sharing a bed with another.

 The area was secluded and the medicines herbal. Our condition was far from uncommon and cubes of bread soaked in oregano essential oil were recommended to us. It did something. How much, I’m not sure.However, I had been advised previously that raw garlic: peeled, scored and inserted anally is a potent weapon against infection. Having faith due to experience in the power of garlic and being aware of the permeability of the lower intestine to simple compounds, this made sense to me. No low pH to damage or twist molecules and alter their efficacy, greatly diminished levels of enzymes etc…..

Let’s give it a go. I did. The next day there wasn’t a trace of infection. In fact myself and another unearthed a 4 ton rock from a prospective driveway in the blistering Moroccan heat on the farm where we were volunteering.

N.B. this will NOT cure you of covid19. As mentioned elsewhere, everything in this article is an AID to tried and tested medical expertise. That was an anecdote, NOT science.