Here's a crazy idea

WARNING... This post contains no instructional material--just ramblings from my two crazy brain cells!

This Lyme thing has me thinking about it day and night. So the other day I was eating Pozole. Pozole is a pork stew in the Hispanic culture. Condiments that go into it are Oregano, Onion, Cilantro, cayenne pepper, garlic.

As I was eating it and staring at the condiments in front of me I realized that all of the condiments have antimicrobial properties!
This is when it hit me. In the days before refrigeration our ancestors probably added these to kill any bacteria from the pork. I then started thinking about other condiments that we add to our food and realized that most of my recipes call for some type of antimicrobial ingredient in it. This is probably how we started to add garlic and onions to food.

I can't see our ancestors taking a bite out of an onion and going "Wow!, this would really go well with the dragon I just slayed. Or even garlic for that matter. Maybe someone noticed that certain folks in the cave next door just didn't get the "runs" as often as other folks did and the reason was that they were cooking their meat with these stuff. What do you think? Plausible?

Something else. For thousands of years humans have been wearing silver ornaments. Yes, they look cool and stuff, but can it be that the original intent for wearing it is for silver's antimicrobial properties?

Think about it, silver oxidizes and we sweat. Specially in the early days when we hunted for our meat. I suspect that silver gets absorbed through our skin much the same way that chemicals like aluminum in our deodorant does. So can it be that we started to wear silver ornaments due to its natural antimicrobial properties and not just as bling bling?

These microbes that we are dealing with here are not new. They have been around for billions of years. And yet, our ancestors were able to fend these off well, otherwise we would not be here today. They did it without modern technology or even antibiotics. Yes, they had Ninhursag’s milk, Soma and Haoma, and the Greek Gods had had ambrosia and nectar. But I bet these were similar to the tinctures that were make today.

Do you think that if we took our herbs and combined them together in a tincture potion, that their individual properties would combine and make for a more potent solution? Kind of what Woodland Essence does with their CSA tincture?

What would happen if we added Oregano, garlic, silver, onion, cayenne, cinnamon, and cilantro into a tincture? would we make the mother of all cures?

Who else thinks about this crazy stuff? Do you have your own theories?

Healing98,

I love that your last two remaining brain cells are imaginative and investigative.

I agree with you and I'm sure there are some of those things that did help.

That said, not many cavemen lived past the age of 25. And I do think that many of the strains of Lyme and the cos are new.

I take lots of silver and different herbs/greens and I think they make a huge difference in my immunity getting better. I'm really careful with the brand/quality of the silver. I was frightened to take it after reading about the man who turned blue.

My brother who is a professor and medical researcher, insisted that I take collodial silver. It is natures antibiotic.

Keep up the good cooking and healing. As Hippocrates said "Let food by thy medicine and medicine be thy food."

Based on that quote it is doubtful that Hippocrates had Lyme.

This is an interesting theory. However, I think that these condiments that we buy in supermarket are not powerful enough, you would need to eat a tons of it in order to have some effect. As July said, they are highly processed.

i try to include silver in my protocol...it's suppose to be able to kill very well...and i do react after taking it...i think it's very powerful on the cellular levels of attacking.