Mark-ji; and Garlic

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Hi Mark and Harsha,

 

I wish you the best, Sri Mark-ji. You'll be baaaack, I trust, when the

time is right! I'll miss your sweetness, candor, wit, humor, and good

writing!

 

Harsha, I have had toxic reactions from garlic as well. Although I don't

have the longitudinal experience with and without garlic as was cited by

Rayek, I have noticed over the last 2 years an effect sort of like an acid

stomach, often with diarrhea as an aftereffect. I eat a lot of Chinese

food, and must tell my friends not to include it. Restaurants too.

 

Garlic and onions are not eaten by some Hindu yogis (as in the Shivananda

school) nor by Chinese Buddhist monastics. Perhaps others too. For

several reasons, including I suspect, the toxicities. Other reasons are

the aphrodisiac effects (I've never noticed these, but they are attributed

to these plants), as well as the halitosis around the altars and in the

closed group yogic and monastic quarters. Some Buddhists interpret their

vegetarian vows to include not eating garlic and onions!

 

Love and farewell to Mark, and love to all,

 

--Greg

 

At 09:26 PM 11/27/01 -0500, Harsha wrote:

>Hi Mark,

>

> I was on no mail for the day hiding from the viruses. Just came on and saw

>that you are leaving. Best wishes Mark. Don't eat raw garlic with the fish.

>Here is what I saw on the raw foods list about garlic from a Raw food

>expert. Apparently Garlic can be very bad!

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>

>Rayek,

>

>>Has anyone else come across this idea of garlic being toxic? Are

>>there any scientific studies available on the subject??

>

>I've been raw almost 9 years. For the first few years I was still

>getting about 3-4 colds/year, about as many as I used to before raw. I

>keep a daily journal of what I eat and experience. When I noticed that 5

>out of the previous 6 colds began a day after eating garlic, stopped

>eating garlic and onions, and the number of colds dropped to only 1/year

>(with very mild symptoms).

>

>Many people think garlic is great, but I think it's toxic too. As a rule

>of thumb, if something doesn't taste delicious to you all by itself in

>its raw, natural state, then it isn't food.

>

>Bob Avery

>

>

>Mark W. Otter [mark.otter]

>Tuesday, November 27, 2001 8:38 PM

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> So long and thanks for all the fish!

>

>

>Hi Friends,

>

>

>Thank you for letting me be a part of your elist conversations. I'm

>about to log off the list because I'm leaving my apartment Friday and

>I'll let the email address lapse, as it was really part of the job I

>lost last August. (sheesh, I can't believe they let me keep using it so

>long.)

>

>I'm not sure where I'm bound, but I hope to converse with you again

>someday. (Aw, heck, there's only one of it, so how could you get rid of

>me?)

>

>Until then, be well,

>Mark