riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) (12/01/83)
My housemates tell me that consuming prodigious amounts of garlic will
prevent and/or relieve the common cold. One of them, our resident
hypochondriac, began by scoffing but tried it on the sly and is now a
True Believer. I have the usual questions: (a) are my housemates crazy?
and (b) if they're not crazy, why does the stuff work?
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riddle@ut-sally.UUCPbch@unc.UUCP (12/02/83)
I suspect the garlic cure works by auto-suggestion. Unless, of course, you have been catching your colds from Vampires. -- Byron Howes UNC - Chapel Hill decvax!duke!mcnc!unc!bch
decot@cwruecmp.UUCP (Dave Decot) (12/02/83)
It probably works because nobody gets close enough to you to give you any germs. Dave Decot decvax!cwruecmp!decot (Decot.Case@rand-relay)
seifert@ihuxl.UUCP (12/02/83)
Well... eating a lot of garlic may help keep people with
colds *away* from you! (along with everyone else!)
Garlic is supposed to be a "chelating" (sp?) agent, it removes
various nasties from your body. I don't know if this is
supposed to help with the common cold, or not.
Health food stores have pills containing de-oderized garlic,
so you can achieve the "chelating" effect without getting
garlic breath.
If anyone's interested, I can probably dig up a reference
for the chelating effect of garlic.
For me, taking *lots* of vitamin C ( ~1 gram/hour ) does
a fairly good job of getting rid of cold symptoms, *much*
better than any of the usual cold drugs do.
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I am not a doctor. None of the above should be construed
as medical advice.
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