Re: Growing medicinal foods (was Re: All my edible's are dying)

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>  Billy <wildbilly@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >  Omelet <ompomelet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > Garlic is useful for female yeast infections as well. 
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> > I hear cranberry juice (not punch) is best. 
> > à ta santé
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> No, that's for urinary tract infections, not yeast infections...
I must be getting old, I know that.
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> I add cranberry juice to cocktails just because I like it. :-)
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> Yogurt and vinegar douche is the old remedy for Yeast, but garlic works 
> better.  I've not been bothered by it for awhile but last time I did, 
> pigging out on garlic actually worked.  I also recommended it to my best

> friend last time she had a problem with it and donated 10 heads of 
> garlic to the cause. Fortunately, she _likes_ garlic! It worked for her 
> as well.
I think it would help to have an Italian boyfriend;-)
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> Eaten in recipes, NOT made into a douche.
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> Pardon for the semi-off-topic post, but one can grow garlic too. <g>
> Like other foods, it's very medicinal.
I knew about garlic for B.P. but not yeast infections. Odd though, I 
would have thought that garlic and fungi would have gotten along, yhey 
do in my kitchen :o)
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> Medicinal garden foods might make an interesting thread...
Did you know that a thyme flower decoction is anti-bacterial and used as 
a gargle is good for sore throats? Sorry, we weren't talking nose and 
throats, were we?
> I have trouble growing garlic. I'm probably not doing it right.
> Never been able to get it to "clove" for me, but onions did ok. They 
> seem to like sandier soil. But, with the cost of water here, it's 
> cheaper for me anymore to purchase most veggies instead of trying to 
> grow them. :-(
I've already ordered mine for this fall. I'm using the shot-gun 
approach. I'm planting several types in different spots on my north 
facing hillside.

Later and thanks for the catch.

Thanks to Jan too for the garlic website
http://www.filareefarm.com/
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