Can You Treat A Yeast Infection By Sticking A Garlic Clove Up Your You-Know-What?
While researching for the many magical non-cooking uses for garlic (you can apparently use it to make glue and cosmetics!), I learned that garlic can be also used to treat yeast infection. What?
So says an article on MidwiferyToday.com. Sufferers of this annoying condition can take a clove of garlic, peel off the papery skin, insert the clove in the vagina at night and remove it in the morning. For a more potent treatment, you can cut the garlic in half (to expose the infected area more directly with the powerful garlic juices) and repeat the treatment for several days.
In both cases, it is recommended to sew a string through the clove for easy retrieval. (Think tampon, but with garlic.)
Why garlic? In addition to spicing up the blandest dinner recipe, garlic is a potent yeast and bacterial-killer. And unlike antibiotics and other over-the-counter medicine, garlic is 100% natural: the only side-effect you will have to worry about is mild garlic breath. (It is common for women who do the garlic treatment to experience a garlic aftertaste in their mouths in the morning.)
Like all natural remedies, the garlic treatment may work for some people, but may not work for others. (Case in point: a very hilarious essay of one woman's failed attempt to treat her yeast infection via garlic on Jezebel.com.)
Which made me extremely curious: what other natural remedies exist for yeast infections?
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