Garlic Saga

I have found that I have missed blogging.  For two reasons.  One is I like writing; it is a nice creative outlet.  The second is that when I research information or find something out especially about health, I distill that information when I blog; so that means I can go back to it to remember what I knew.  With this memory of mine this is very important.

So I have this thing on my nose that has concerned my dermatologist for a few years.  She had me trying Aldara and fluorouracil creams, that is, after she had frozen it a couple of times.  Then I was told to watch it.  Which I did. Until a couple of months ago when this small spot which had just been intermittenly flaking a flake of skin every now and then, started to flake and bleed.  So now I was walking around with a little scab on my nose all of the time, or a bandaid covering it. I babied the thing.  But somehow the scab would fall off and it would start bleeding again. 

I finally went to a different dermatologist (since we had changed insurance plans) and was told it might be basal cell carcinoma. He wanted to do a biopsy and put a stitch or two in, but I was leaving for Hawaii the next day so asked if it could wait a few months so I could try a natural alternative remedy.  He said yes, basal cell cancer is slow growing, that would be fine.

When we got back from Hawaii I started doing research to come up with a plan.  There were a number of approaches I could take but the easiest one seemed to be garlic.  So sixteen days ago I started putting a tiny piece of crushed fresh garlic on the lesion I had on my nose and covered it with a bandaid.  I also did this with a suspect lesion on my left forearm which I wrote about before-my little cancer marker. 

The lesion on my arm scabbed up after a few days of this treatment.  Then when the scab fell off the area was rose colored and flat. The area had been raised for 3-4 years.  It appears the "cancer" fell off. 

As for the nose, the garlic caused a crater and every day the crater is filled with a cream colored gook.  Now the crater is getting smaller and smaller.  The lesion no longer bleeds, whereas before the bleeding would be so relentless I had to use curcumin (the spice) to stop the bleeding (yes, it is very effective for that). I am pretty sure the cream colored exudate is leukocytes (white blood cells) on the attack.

I went to my naturopathic doctor five days ago for something else and told her about my experiment.  She was very excited to hear the results and advised me to keep doing what I was doing.  She thinks the forearm lesion is cured and that I am on the right track with my nose.  I will keep you posted.

Just to explain the nitty gritty a little better:  I put a little piece of fresh garlic just on the suspect spot and covered it with a bandaid for 3-12 hours.  I started doing it twice a day, now I just do this at night for my nose.

When I started this I also had a little athletes foot problem between two toes so I rubbed garlic there as well.  It totally cleared up after 2 days. Then a few days ago I went on the attack on 3 little warts that have been a nuisance for years.  One is already turning black which is a good sign, a sign that it is dying.

Anyway, that is my garlic saga.  Glad to be back in blogdom.