re: Garlic Protects Against Ticks and Possibly Mosquitos

manicblogger — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 04:56:33 GMT

I have been bothered by flies and gnats for the past few years, especially when it gets warmer outside. I don't understand why but I think there is something really wrong with my body chemistry and the doctors I have mentioned this to I don't think ever take me seriously, although I do think they're good doctors- I guess I just don't explain myself very well about how emotionally damaging this has been to me. It takes so much courage to bring it up to them in the first place. I think I need to be either tested for parasites or something... I don't know what to do- they follow me around but my house and car are clean too so it has to be my chemistry. I am very embarrassed and don't want to go out anymore especially going to dinner- gnats and flies start coming around me. I feel things sometimes biting me on my scalp too, and sometimes I think I see what might be "no seeums" very very tiny go by me maybe like a piece of lint floating in the air. Sometimes the fly or gnat speeds by really fast by my face. Once in awhile, I do see a couple in my house and they are usually by my computer, odd. You think they'd be in the kitchen. I just want to do a colon cleanse or something- I hear wormwood is poison though. There is virtually no information online about this. Am I dying? Am I putting off a scent of decay or something only they can smell? I don't think I smell bad and no one's told me I do either. It's very upsetting to me-I have never had answers. I wish I could get help. I'm so tired of this and I have never had this problem a few years ago. I need more than trying to eat garlic and take Vitamin B1- there is some difference but I don't want to have to eat a whole bulb of garlic everyday (although I know that's notbad.) I am concerned about taking too much B 1 though.

re: Garlic Protects Against Ticks and Possibly Mosquitos

CJ in Ohio — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:48:50 GMT

I think I can attest to the use of garlic as an insect repellent, or at least against mosquitoes. I try to eat garlic scrambled eggs (cooked in pure coconut oil) every morning for breakfast (I use at least two very large cloves).

One morning this spring I was cleaning out our small pond and hit into a nest of mosquitoes, which flew every which way - except on me! Not one of them landed on my skin that I could see, though I did spot one on the underside of my sun visor. If any did land on me (where I could not see), they didn’t sting because I did not have one single mosquito bite from the incident!

Garlic is a great little wonder food from God. Regarding the scent of garlic: I am not as offended by it as I am by other things such as fish or “oniony”-B.O.!

Thanks for everything you do to promote health awareness, Dr. Mercola!