RE: Salt, Garlic, Onion [s]

[Guest guest]

Wow Fredrik, you are truly a keen observer of yourself and your own

experience. I SO appreciate your sharing these experiences.

 

And the essence of all science, and indeed most inquiry, is observation.

 

There is one distinction I'd like to offer, that some my find constructive.

Just because something came from a plant and is whole does not make it food

for humans. It may be food for other species!

 

Elchanan

 

Fredrik Murman [fpm]

Thursday, February 24, 2005 9:28 AM

rawfood

[Raw Food] Re: Salt

Elchanan wrote:

> Ever try a similar experiment with garlic or onion? (Including

> even the " mild " or " sweet " onions.) I found out that they are

> neither mild nor sweet!

Since I classified garlic as a whole food, and had both heard and

read so much good about it, and since I had found out that one of

my brothers had it as a regular part of his diet, both in raw and

cooked form, I decided to try it, maybe a year ago or so. It had

never been part of my personal menu. I bought garlic and cooked

it according to instructions, and I felt completely out of balance

afterwards. I felt slow and had a strange feeling in my head -

like I was insane, and I didn't sleep normally. It took me days

to get over it.

One can ask if I would have felt better if I had eaten the garlic

raw. Well, a couple of weeks ago I was on a visit and was served

fresh salad and raw garlic on top of a sandwich. None of the

components in the sandwich were unfamiliar to my palate, except

thin and small slices of raw fresh garlic. I was very skeptical

and remembered what had happened the last time I ate garlic, but

the host insisted and I thought that maybe I would not have any

problems with raw and fresh garlic. Afterwards, I felt almost

exactly the same as I had felt with cooked garlic, and it took me

at least a day before I felt normal again.

So, apparently garlic does not agree with me.

It would be interesting to hear what symptoms others have had.

Does anyone here use it regularly? Excuse my ignorance but is

garlic at all part of any raw vegan cuisine?

Onion has not been a regular part of my diet either. I have tried

using it, both raw and cooked, in my food, a handful of times

during the years, because it's a whole food like garlic in my

opinon, and others seem to use it a lot; but I can't say I am

fond of it. I don't remember the last time I ate it.

Fredrik