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From: seifert@ihuxl.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: The garlic cure
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Date: Fri, 2-Dec-83 10:09:35 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  2 10:09:35 1983
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Well... eating a lot of garlic may help keep people with
colds *away* from you! (along with everyone else!)

Garlic is supposed to be a "chelating" (sp?) agent, it removes
various nasties from your body.  I don't know if this is
supposed to help with the common cold, or not.

Health food stores have pills containing de-oderized garlic,
so you can achieve the "chelating" effect without getting
garlic breath.

If anyone's interested, I can probably dig up a reference
for the chelating effect of garlic.

For me, taking *lots* of vitamin C ( ~1 gram/hour ) does
a fairly good job of getting rid of cold symptoms, *much*
better than any of the usual cold drugs do.

*****************  disclaimer **************************

I am not a doctor. None of the above should be construed
as medical advice. 

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