Garlic as anti-biotic.

"Now grantee, all of my coworkers kept asking if anyone else smelled garlic! "

Yes Therese, the stench of garlic applied or consumed will make people run.

Dana, it is not like a pill from the quack, it is a way of life. If I remember correctly garlic has been used as an antibiotic for 2000-2500 yrs.

Greylock, don't be hesitant just because the FDA doesn't approve. Honey is a good external antibiotic, it's even better internal. As in cut out the processed white sugar and use honey. Therefore your body will not be so susceptible to outside infection.

Dean, the founder, instigator, moderator,admin. of this forum!
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Any other natural remedies that have antibiotic properties? Yes , there are many.
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Garlic is an amazing plant. Two years ago I started feeling like I had the flu, but it never went away. I went from specialist to specialist feeling like a human pin cushion. One blamed my trip to central America years ago, the others could find nothing after countless blood, urine and other test. I gave up and remembered what we were taught in herbal school about garlic. I started taking 1/3 raw garlic twice a day and in days I felt better than I had in months! To this day as soon as I start feeling that same way (or get some bug) I start garlic again. I've tried the pills, but they don't contain the active ingredient...I believe its allicin if I remember right. It doesn't matter, they thought they knew everything about ST. John's Wort and isolated one compound to use then realized it didn't work. They later discovered over 300 active compounds! St. John's in another AMAZING anti-viral, but you can not take it if you are taking any meds. I also use it topically as a anti-inflammatory.

Honey is the best band-aid you can get! I'm a bee keeper and I've healed countless cuts (some very large) with honey. Honey even produces its own hydrogen peroxide on your wound. It has to be untreated (unprocessed) as they kill many of the beneficial "things" when they heat it over 110 degrees. Another thing, NEVER use honey from a source where you don't know where it is coming from. It is typical for honey packers in the US to pack honey under their label (honey packing plant in US), BUT be from China. Recent shipments of Chinese honey were discovered to contain over 43 known pesticides and antibiotics! This particular batch was tested by the USDA (which rarely test honey) and was going into Sara Lee baked products for over 8 months!

Dean said:

Never heard of it before. Any other natural remedies that have antibiotic properties?

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Coconut. Oil and milk and water. Great stuff. The coconut water is a good source of electrolytes. And the lauric acid in the oil and milk is a crazy good anti-microbial: bacterial, viral, and fungal. It can be taken internally or topically (the oil, mostly).

My favorite cold-buster recipe is based on whatever hot chocolate recipe is handy. (I know the sugar isn't good for the immune system, but I don't care for the taste of the coconut otherwise. But anyway...) Replace at least half of the liquid in the hot chocolate with coconut milk. Delish! I was on a business trip just last week when colleague colleague became an incubus of the viral plague. I grabbed a can of coconut milk from the nearest grocery store and some packets of hot chocolate mix from the hotel lobby and started chugging it all down. She's still sick. I didn't even sneeze.

Oh and it will last in storage ages longer than the average antibiotic.

(And oh: start slowly with the coconut products. It's all pretty slick through the system, if you know what I mean, and can loosen you up in unpleasant ways until you are accustomed to it...)