I was glad I had read your post about cloves/manganese on the Microbe detectives because I didn't know that before about cloves. Now that I've looked them up, I see what you were talking about, they are high in manganese- which is one of the things the copper stuff says for getting the copper out.
From the copper info above too:
>>>Candida Albicans (Yeast) Infections
Copper is a stimulant to oxidative or aero-bic metabolism. A copper biounavailability, deficiency, or imbalance, often results in a tendency towards yeast infections>>>