Daily Exorcise Gear: Garlic Necklace Anyone?

It's no accident that garlic has earned a unique reputation as friend or foe for hundreds of years!

Over the years when the family gathered for Christmas Eve dinner, it was a delectable feast. But more than the usual amount of fresh garlic got consumed that night by all with our fresh shellfish and seafood delicacies. Zuppa de Pesce or Mussel or Clam soup with Tomato Sauce - Zuppa di Cozze o Vongole al Pomodoro. Mmmmm! But after falling asleep on the sofa, the air that drifted upwards from your sleep-dude mouth was enough to burn your eyes. And if you complained about the garlic, all the old-timers would say: “Itzza gouda faw you!” From antiquity (and we all have an Aunt Iquity.) people used garlic to ward off evil spirits. And like the word "ma" for mother, uttered by infants in many countries around the world, even though the languages are quite different, the universal and isolated "etimology" in isolated societies producing an identical end product leads one to believe that there is something of intrinsic, perceivable value to its existence. (Kind of like the fly theory: 17 quadrillion flies can't be wrong, so eat…) So maybe there's something to this "Garlic / vampire "superstition"? Here's a theory: "Evil spirits" weren't often actually seen, it was there "evil deeds" that clued us in that these opportunistic bastards were relentlessly stalking us and we needed to be ever-vigilant! Victims of evil spirits died strange deaths, got gravely ill and suffered a great deal. But the common "bullet" in the gun of these dastardly cynical villains was perhaps the same culprit we recognize from today's germ theory. And maybe the "guns" were the rodents and insects that delivered these microbes as reliably as FedEx. Well, today we realize that garlic is a powerful insecticide, the best organic insect killer. There is a reason why no bug will eat garlic or any of the onion family...because it kills them. The reason garlic is so toxic, the sulphone hydroxyl ion penetrates the blood brain barrier, and is a specific poison for higher life forms and brain cells. This was discovered, much to the horror of passionate garlic fans, by the world's largest manufacturer of ethical EEG biofeedback equipment, Alpha-Metrics Corporation. When people come back from lunch and looked clinically dead on the encephalograph, which they used to calibrate their progress. "Well, what happened?" they asked the people with the frightening test results: " Well, I went to an Italian restaurant and there was some garlic in my salad dressing!" But like exercise, and some people believe "women", garlic falls into a very special category that makes a person want to throw up his arms and exclaim: Can't live with it, can't live without it. So my personal punch line is this: Garlic truly earned its reputation as an evil spirit scare crow meritoriously: It kills germs, it kills and wards off insects (perhaps disease-carrying mosquitoes, ticks and fleas) , it is feared by and toxic to small animals such as the disease-carrying rat. It makes you less kissable and hence less likely to contract STDs. Not too many people sits close enough to give you the swine flu... And if a swine flu virus happened to land on your skin it would vaporize in a puff of smoke. It desynchronizes your brain just enough to get you a good night sleep when you should stay up all night, crucifix-in-hand keeping vampires at bay. In other words, start stringing your own garlic necklace people: "IT WORKS!" Now that you have this information, the decision is your alone: To Exorcise or Not to Exorcise, here are the choices: Toxic effects of garlic extract and garlic oil in rats. Joseph PK, Rao KR, Sundaresh CS. Significant rise in urea and D-aspartate aminotransferase and inhibition of alkaline phosphatase in serum were observed in rats fed garlic extract (2 ml/100 g body wt, intragastrically) for 10 days. The liver showed histological changes. Garlic oil feeding (10 mg/100 g body wt, intragastrically) after 24 hr fasting was found lethal. The cause of death appears to be acute pulmonary oedema. On histological examination, all the organs of the dead rats revealed severe congestion. However, similar feeding of garlic oil was well tolerated by rats in the fed state. Also, 24 hr fasted rats could tolerate this dose of garlic oil, provided they were previously adapted to garlic oil feeding -- from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2620938 Recipes for Christmas Eve Italian Style Dinner: Zuppa de Pesce or Mussel or Clam soup with Tomato Sauce - Zuppa di Cozze o Vongole al Pomodoro here: http://santa.net/santa-claus-christmas-blog/2009/07/10/z ...

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