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> Onion and garlic are extremely potent medicines. They are not food.

Sorry, what? Onion is one of the oldest cultivated plant and it's consumption exists in nearly every culture, in much "cleaner" times than today. If our guts can adapt to milk, it will have adapted to onion.

Also, you're going to have to show me evidence that the extremely potent medicine has extremely potent effects - what do we currently cure with onion? And please no big pharma arguments - aspirin and penicillin are still wildly available and they come from natural elements.



More than 75% of Asian population is lactose intolerant. Milk is not good for us. Body adapts to smoking and alcoholism. Does that make cigarettes and alcohol good for us? Coffee is a potent nerve stimulant, but too much of it makes you insensitive to its effects. Does that make coffee less potent or does that make you insensitive?

Potent medicine is what Ayurveda calls it. Garlic is right at the top. Our concept of potent and the way nature works are not compatible. Hence, the diseases.

Try detoxifying your body and then consume garlic to know if it is a medicine or just another food item.


> Try detoxifying your body

Which toxins?




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