Garlic and bubonic plague (aka Black Death) MORE

[Guest guest]

Yes, these stories exist. But if a judge in that time had ruled that the

Earth is flat, would that make it true? (That DID happen, more than once!!!)

 

 

The underlying problem was trash ... as in almost all public health crises.

if you had studied the plague itself, you'd realize it was transmitted via

fleas traveling on rats thriving on trash, not via dead human bodies, and

that the primary determination of susceptibility was systemic health and

closeness to trash. Many robbers had no homes, and therefore they lived more

remotely from the trash. Of course, the judges at that time knew none of

this ... almost no one did.

 

Regarding the snake bite, I often offer a clear distinction between creating

health, in general, and responding to trauma, in particular. Bites, stings,

falls, crashes, and the like are all traumas, and at times we do indeed

invoke treatments in such cases. But in the ordinary course of creating

health, garlic is deleterious. Also, note that, in the case of your

perfectly reasonable snake bite example, the material is applied externally

to the bite, not eaten.

 

Best,

Elchanan

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rawfood [rawfood ] On Behalf Of

Erica

Friday, June 22, 2007 2:34 PM

rawfood

[Raw Food] Re: Garlic and bubonic plague (aka Black Death)

 

 

I read an entire book on the history of garlic, Elchanan. It told

the story of 3 robbers who were robbing the dead. They were brought

into court. The judge said, " If you can tell me how you managed to

steal from the dead (plague) bodies without getting it, you can go

free " , or along those lines. They drank garlic brine from around

their necks.

 

Also, it talked about the age-old remedy for venomous snake-bites,

namely rattlers. It is common knowledge among snake-handlers (middle-

esat, etc) that when you chew a clove of garlic and mix it with the

enzymes in your saliva (to " activate " it), you can stick it in the

snakebite and it will ward off infection. Been used for

centuries.....

 

:-)

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

The plague was also communicated by people as well as fleas, though. That's all

I'm saying.

 

 

 

 

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