Re: Does garlic have to be raw?

Yes, the garlic should be raw, as the allicin that's created when cutting the garlic has a very short half-life.

Roasted garlic (and pickled garlic) has many of the benefits, but not all.

Swallowing a whole garlic clove without chewing it would likely be very painful, and I highly recommend against doing that. Some people (Rocky included) can easily chew a clove and swallow it; it burns my mouth.

Remember, cayenne only gives the sensation of burning; raw garlic taped to the skin for several hours will actually burn tissue (albeit, nothing like a severe burn from fire/coal/metal). It takes several days to 'burn off a mole' with garlic, where it can be done with hot metal in a few seconds.

A 'garlic twister' is the easiest way to prepare our garlic (easy and the perfect 'minced size'). I got mine here: http://www.starwest-botanicals.com/product/garlic-twist.html
....but it appears they are currently out of stock.

Yes, raw garlic is rough for some (it seems the rougher it is, the more need of it there is!). Many people mistake the vast array of various 'healing symptoms' of the garlic to be an intolerance to garlic itself. If we eat something high in sugar, we get a sugar-buzz. When we eat something high in sulphur, we get a 'sulphur buzz' (which includes the smell, taste and expulsion of sulphur, along with a few burps). This is normal, as is the die-off and cleansing/healing it produces. Garlic is an oxygen-carrier, so we can become light-headed. Garlic can pull mercury to itself while it's in our digestive tract, so we may experience symptoms associated with that. All these things are normal, and once we get used to them we don't even notice them any more than we notice the 'sugar buzz' from an organic cookie or the gentle calming action of Ashwagandha.

The first time I did Dr. Schulze s 5-day Liver cleanse (adding one additional clove of garlic to the morning drink each day), the 3rd day (3 cloves of garlic), I sucked the mixture down and it was everything I could do to keep from throwing up...then the ginger root kicked in, and I was fine. I never suggest "forcing garlic" to that point of extreme nausea, unless there is an extreme emergency need.

I cannot (perhaps will not) ingest more than 2 cloves of raw garlic at a time (I'm referring to very large, organic cloves, the size of the end of my thumb or bigger). Unless one has 'extreme issues', there is no need for more than 2 cloves, 3x daily. 5-6 cloves is enough for virtually everyone.

However, there are many people (especially those with deep-seated candida issues, or other pathogenic bacteria, virus, yeast/fungus, or parasites), that choose to take more...and this is almost always a very good goodness for their healing.

Garlic juice is wonderful, but it's EXTREMELY concentrated...so if you juice garlic, go easy with the juice. On the other hand, adding a clove of garlic to many of the juice mixes is 'just the ticket' :)

Heal ON!

Uny

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