Raw Garlic , Good or Bad?

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On Behalf Of SV

Thursday, August 17, 2006 4:05 PM

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Re: [Raw Food] Raw Garlic , Good or Bad?

 

I have given up garlic, onions, all spices and my beloved jalapenos and giving

these up have

caused my cravings to drop to almost nothing.

 

Don't know what that has to do with it, but many Natural Hygiene people do not

consume these

items.

Their theory is that if you cannot make an entire meal of something then it is

not fit food. In

other words I wouldn't normally sit down and eat enough garlic to make me

satisfied the same way

I would sit down and eat watermelon to satisfy me.

 

Shari

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Greetings Shari and all,

 

As with most fields of inquiry, Natural Hygiene has its stronger and weaker

points. The idea

that if you cannot make a meal of something, it is not food for our species

provides a nice

starting point for considering the potential of individual foods, but to hold

fast to this idea

as a " truth " or the like goes beyond good science and logic, in my view.

 

We can, however, consider garlic (and onions) from a different, more practical

perspective.

Whenever the body responds actively and quickly to remove a substance, this is

called an " acute "

response. Any such strong eliminative response indicates that the body perceives

that substance,

or at least a portion of it, as not only foreign matter, but as something

sufficiently

threatening that it demands high-priority attention for elimination. Such is

the nature of the

body's initial response, for example, to cigarette smoke. And such is the body's

initial

response to garlic and onions.

 

Anyone can experience this response, no one need take my word (or anyone

else's). Simply go 90

days (if you can!!) consuming zero garlic and onion. (Do both at the same time

for the most

dramatic, obvious results.)

 

Then, on the 91st day, as your FIRST food of the day, eat some raw garlic or raw

onion (but not

both on the same day). For most people who have ever tried this experiment, that

was the last

time they ever tried to eat the stuff!

 

Why? Because the response in the mouth is such an awful experience, one wishes

never to repeat

it!!

 

But even without performing such an experiment, one can readily perceive that

the body rejects

garlic. How? Simply smell someone who has just eaten garlic, cooked or raw, but

particularly

raw. There is no mistaking that odor. And the body ONLY emits foul odors through

the skin when

there is something requiring elimination that so overloads the system, the body

must conscript

the skin into service as an extra eliminative organ, not its " normal " function.

 

It is indeed correct to say that garlic contains antifungal and antibacterial

substances, for

its own protection in Nature. But in a healthy human body, no such added

protection is required,

and these substances must be eliminated as foreign matter.

 

Best to all,

Elchanan