Wizardhawk's memorial thread (a cautionary tale of dental care and garlic)

Luminati_sl said:

Garlic is the most powerful antibiotic known to exist.

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Tanoomba_sl said:

You meanthis article?

This article states that allicin (which is found in garlic) is effective in treating a specific infection (MRSA) that antibiotics were ineffective against. It doesn't say allicin is stronger, is says it worked where other antibiotics failed. It doesn't even begin to imply that allicin works against all infections or is superior to antibiotics in every case. It's also very much worth noting that allicin treatments are administered through pills and creams, and not through sucking on raw garlic.

Did you read the article, or did you stop at the headline?

Here's the official studypresumably referred to at the end of the article. From the study:

Allicin is the main antibacterial agent isolated from garlic, but natural extracts can be unstable. In this study, a new, stable, aqueous extract of allicin (extracted from garlic) is tested on 30 clinical isolates of MRSA that show a range of susceptibilities to mupirocin.

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Doesn't sound to me like a slice of raw garlic on a tooth will have the same effect as a new, stable, aqueous extract of allicin. Don't get me wrong, garlic is a highly beneficial plant that everybody should eat regularly, but it's far from being the miracle drug you seem to believe it is.

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