If this year's flu virus...

[Random User]

... is the same across North America, eating 2 large cloves of garlic every 24 hours knocks the hell out if it... or so I've found anyway.

 

[sorce]

Or maybe it's like .....

If a tree falls in the woods but there is no one to hear it...blah blah....

I know there ain't nobody around your stankin ass to remind you you have the flu!

Aaaahhhhh.....

Segue Threadway!

I was just listening to the dumbest "backwards world" commercial....ahem....
COMMERCIAL....

Lysol wipes....

"As soon as I hear a sneeze I disinfect everything immediately"....blah blah blah....

Sneezing, AKA...the common cold...
AKA..."why is there no cure"...

Is clearly an expelling.

However..."eeww gross" this expelling may seem....

It serves to create a constant outgoing.

Now, the last time I tried to paddle upstream....it wasn't as easy as paddling downstream.

It's so obvious this is a natural prevention that needs no curing.

Anyway....

I'm off to go play in that sewage George Carlin was talking aboot!

Sorce

 

[Random User]

I got a stank'n ass alright... I wouldn't want to have to stand up-wind of myself for another week till this garlic wears off.

It's amazing how well it works though...

 

[Nybonsai12]

... is the same across North America, eating 2 large cloves of garlic every 24 hours knocks the hell out if it... or so I've found anyway.

I’ve been eating raw garlic regularly along with oil of oregano. It’s been a very good cold/flu season for me despite being exposed to it everywhwre. People underestimate the healing power of food and have been brainwashed to thinking pills solve everything. If only everyone stopped living to eat and started eating to live.

 

[Random User]

The only thing I've had was 4 cloves of garlic, water, and a bowl of chicken soup... slept with a cold wash cloth on my forehead and horked my louggies into an old jar that I have since thrown out in the sub zero weather. I've found that the odourless garlic pills are quite effective and you don't have to offend everyone with the stench... I just don't have any at the moment.

 

[M. Frary]

I have germs in me that make the flu run and hide.
But then again I have been known to drink out of puddles when I'm thirsty.
Really.

 

[Anthony]

Have 2 cloves of garlic and an onion in every meal - cooked. [ sulphur for the bodies antibiotic factory ]
A glass of vegetables ground up daily to drink.
5 fruit and Chinese style vegetable meal.
Result no flus for years.

Food is your medicine.

Now the neighbour in Mayaro, does not like vegetables.
Went eating garlic cloves and ----------------- ended up with really bad sore throat.

If your throat or nasal passage is in anyway cut or sore.
Stay away from sneezers, you have an easy way for germs to enter your
body.

Watch your fibre as well, as you get older, it is the strain, that brings on ..................
Health Watch
Anthony

 

[dirk hoorelbeke]

Vaccination is the only way to go if you want to prevent getting sick and is advised for people with low immune system or people that work with them (hospital workers, elderly people, hiv, premature children,...). It is obvious to me that a healthy diet and regular exercise keeps your body and immune system in top condition and illness will be fought faster and harder. There are no large double-blind studies that i know off that prove the flu can be altered with food supplements, that does not say it doesn't work with some individuals or with all individuals. Health is more than the physical part. A lot of people in the regular population only get the flu once or twice in their lives so not getting it for years might not be a result of some kind of diet.

 

[Random User]

IMHO, (for the average adult) if you don't get infections, a cold, or the flu every couple of years, your immune system is probably not as strong as it could be... and yes, this includes drinking out of puddles.

 

[AZbonsai]

Having 34 kids practicing germ warfare on me daily has done wonders for my immune system! Have had kids dropping like flies around me for two months now. I have not even taken a sick day this year.

 

[M. Frary]

IMHO, (for the average adult) if you don't get infections, a cold, or the flu every couple of years, your immune system is probably not as strong as it could be... and yes, this includes drinking out of puddles.

Or it's the most powerful immune system you can get.

 

[Nybonsai12]

While cooked garlic is good, for its benefits to be most effective you want it uncooked, raw, crushed and organic. Allicin is the compound you are after in garlic

Vaccination is the only way to go if you want to prevent getting sick

I’ll preface this by saying I am not an anti-vaxxer, but the flu vaccine this year was terribly ineffective.

 

[Starfox]

Got to love this headline.

https://www.thenational.ae/world/deadly-australian-flu-spreads-across-the-world-1.694064

You're welocme

 

[Random User]

"Or it's the most powerful immune system you can get."

Agreed.

 

[AlainK]

Have 2 cloves of garlic and an onion in every meal - cooked. [ sulphur for the bodies antibiotic factory ]
A glass of vegetables ground up daily to drink.
5 fruit and Chinese style vegetable meal.
Result no flus for years.

Excellent diet.

Er... OK, where you live, subtropical climate, influenza viruses are quite rare, but sill, very good healthy diet.

I take curcumine too. And cook curries with lots of spices (I usually mix my own curry powder: curcuma, coriander, cumin, cloves, nutmeg, black pepper, fresh green pepper, cardamom -my favourite, both for curries and desserts, etc.) , very little meat but lots of grains and vegetables.

Fresh garlic and ginger (a must!), if meat or fish, a few hours in lemon juice.

Coconut cream (or milk), especially with fish or shells.

In summer (Ilive in a country with harsh winters), fresh coriander leaves, mint and parley. Thyme and laurel when a sauce is needed.

This is the base: poppy seeds, crushed peanuts, sesame seeds, for "kebabs" on the "plancha".

Basmati rice. Safran, of course.

Almonds, raisins, nuts in the sauce of course.

Etc.

Here, in the winter, leak+carrots+trnips+potatoes soup followed by bread and cheese is very good too. Lentils and sausages too. beef stew with carrots good too.

 

[Anthony]

Alain,

you are forgetting Chickigunia [ Spelling ? ] and that last one mutated out of Brazil.
Got the Chick...., last part swollen feet.
Missed the other.
Plus one does get a yearly dose of mosquito, bee stings, ant stings, numerous scratches from
say the Texas Ebony, cuts, black toenails [ Nic dropped a big book on me ]
and so on.

So it does keep the defense system going.

I also have low immunity to rusty iron water or water of off galvanised roofing.
Gives me mad blood.
Sun after February, headaches, until the eyes adjust to the intensity.
Very low tolerance to high humidity, but cold is invigorating.
Now does that make the nay sayers happy ?
Good Day
Anthony

 

[AlainK]

Chickigunia [ Spelling ? ]

No chikungunia (spelling?) here, nor malaria or dengue : these are tropical diseases carried by tropical mosquitoes. there are French "territories" where these can happen, but we've got what some would call - libel ? - a "socialist" system : all the citizens contribute to a healthcare system that ensures everyone is treated equally, whatever their social status.

And in mainland France, the most fragile people who can die from the flu, people above 65, are vaccinated for free: my 87-year-old mother is safe and sound.

We don't need religion or whatever, we're a secular country where solidarity with everyone is still a core value. For how long? I don't know...

 

[Anthony]

Alain.

you need to remember that we were a former British colony.

Same laws, same social practices.

Medical free, Education until University free, and mandatory,
housing for the poor and middle class, provided by the government
[ though you do have to pay a small monthly sum ]
when you turn 65, you are able to get $4000.00 TT [ spends like US $ ]
, you just have to be poor.

Then you are rich.
[ Would you like to see the house the neighbours built, and they were
younger squatters, and now over 65 ........................ tah dah!!!!]

For mosquitoes we have -------- the Flowtron - guards a half acre,
with octonol [ spelling ]
Neighbours love us, and it is solar powered.

Plus for 6 to 7 months ---------- too dry for them mosquies, plus
birds/dragonflies/bats and guppies do their job.
It's cool.
This ain't back in the 18th century.

Plus once you had ChickV, you are immune for life.
We suspect it was here in the 50's as mostly the younger got it.
Have fun.
Anthony

 

[AlainK]

Alain.

you need to remember that we were a former British colony.

Same laws, same social practices.

Medical free, Education until University free, and mandatory,
housing for the poor and middle class, provided by the government
[ though you do have to pay a small monthly sum ]

Well, that sounds like Paradise - except for the mosquitoes of course

In a way, you're much closer to Europe than to the US of A.

 

[Shima]

"
In a way, you're much closer to Europe than to the US of A."
Lucky for you.