Ok, I'm starting to lose my faith in garlic here. I've had this awful sore throat (it hurts from ear to ear) for a week, along with some mild congestion and cough. I've been using my garlic press and eating 3 to 4 cloves (raw) on toast with butter and parmesan cheese twice in the last 24 hours (a fairly tasty way to eat it, I might add), and I don't feel any better. I've got a 2yo with a fever for the past couple of days, and I put goot all over her little body two nights in a row, but have seen no improvement. Also, way back when, when I tried poultices, they didn't work either. I followed the instructions, didn't cook the garlic, etc. but seems like I should have at least seen some benefit.
Any input would be great--how often do you apply the stuff for respiratory infections, colds, and junk? Maybe just once a day is not enough??
Of course, now thinking back even further, my husband is a garlic believer, because he had a toothache/infection and was in need of a root canal. Well, he ran out of antibiotics, and we really couldn't afford any more, so he started eating raw garlic in the days before the procedure, and the toothache/infection symptoms were completely relieved. When he went to the dentist and was asked what he had done, he told them he had used garlic, and they were like "What"?? Like he was from another planet or something. It's just funny, because most of the world out there believes medications are the answer to everything.
