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Posted 8/24/2017 4:10 AM (GMT 0)
Any and all garlic / Lyme anecdotes welcome .

I'm thinking I may be herxing from larger than culinary amounts of raw garlic.
Posted 8/24/2017 4:39 AM (GMT 0)
First herx I ever experienced was garlic. Before I got diagnosed, I knew something was wrong, but didn't know it was Lyme. I tried changing my diet, different supplements....then I tried garlic. I took some pills of highly concentrated garlic and after a couple days of that my symptoms were exponentially worse.
As a matter of fact garlic pills and the resulting herx are what opened my eyes to the seriousness of my condition. I went from fatigued and feeling generally unwell, to having a hard time walking and talking coherently. That's when I realized I needed help and made my first doctors appointment. So yes, garlic can be very powerful stuff.
Posted 8/24/2017 9:47 AM (GMT 0)
Freeze garlic pills, the strongest SUPPLEMENT I ever took. I usually kept a box in the freezer, just in case.

It's quite widespectrum, full of allicin, the taste is mild.

Lately, I've been trying homemade kimchi.

It has the SAME effect (possibly even stronger, as garlic is fermeneted).

Kimchi has LOADS of garlic and onions and ginger in GREAT amounts each. All are fermented, which sort of doubles the effect, I think.

Some people I know cannot take even a spoon of kimchi (homemade) without massive herxes.

I was thriving on kimchi during winter. It gave me horrible candida herxes, then I could control a very very chronic candida basically with kimchi mostly.

I had to stop eating as my whole house was smelly, in hot weather. I'll start doing it again in Sep or Oct, for sure. It's extremely antimicrobial, and I believe, even anti parasitic (because of ginger, I suppose?).

did you eat raw or cooked? I swear, raw is much stronger!!!!
Posted 8/24/2017 11:44 AM (GMT 0)

Jinna said...
Freeze garlic pills, the strongest SUPPLEMENT I ever took. I usually kept a box in the freezer, just in case.

It's quite widespectrum, full of allicin, the taste is mild.

Lately, I've been trying homemade kimchi.

It has the SAME effect (possibly even stronger, as garlic is fermeneted).

Kimchi has LOADS of garlic and onions and ginger in GREAT amounts each. All are fermented, which sort of doubles the effect, I think.

Some people I know cannot take even a spoon of kimchi (homemade) without massive herxes.

I was thriving on kimchi during winter. It gave me horrible candida herxes, then I could control a very very chronic candida basically with kimchi mostly.

I had to stop eating as my whole house was smelly, in hot weather. I'll start doing it again in Sep or Oct, for sure. It's extremely antimicrobial, and I believe, even anti parasitic (because of ginger, I suppose?).

did you eat raw or cooked? I swear, raw is much stronger!!!!

I even drink the juice kimich is fermented in. It's the best probiotic on the planet.
Posted 8/24/2017 1:59 PM (GMT 0)
I used to use garlic for my travel out in the woods. I never got bothered by insect, however, my social life got pretty limited!
Posted 8/24/2017 3:09 PM (GMT 0)
I love garlic - raw. When I first started eating raw garlic, it totally cleaned out my GI track. My system got used to it. I was up to 5 cloves finely chopped on a piece of toast.

Dragon breath for sure, but I so believe it helped me heal.

On days where I had to be around more than hubby, I took a clove and chopped it into swallowable pieces and swallowed them whole. I still stunk.

Garlic can come out of every pore in my body. Great hermit making herb.
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