to want to shout from the rooftops : USE GARLIC

[TalkinPeace2]

I've had an infected foot and toenails for years
antibiotics - nyada
topical creams - nyada
THEN
discovered garlic
.
cut a clove across and rub the oil into the skin / nail / sore bit
wash off after an hour (otherwise it stings like billyo)
.
foot nearly fully healed
YIPPEE

Latara, you sure she was not Transylvanian rather than Ukrainian?

I use lots of garlic in cooking and have used it up my fanjo for thrush on numerous occasions (DW objects to the garlic breath it gives me though - who knew those two body parts were linked?). I love finding new uses for garlic.

skiing
peel clove of garlic.
slice off tip
rub on nail till the oil (stink) is clear
once or twice a day
nails are resistant so it'll take a while to show (during which I put nail varnish back on !)
On skin, twice a day, couple of days, healing should be obvious

5foot, I once looked up natural remedies for thrush and they recommended sticking a scored clove of garlic up your fanjo!

I used to stick garlic cloves up my nose - against sinus infection.
Garlic cloves into my ears, against air infection, with onion ring slices on the outside, covered by cling film, to ensure NO onion/garlic vapours escaped....

A Russian girl I lived with used to crush a few cloves of garlic, mix them with water, then snort it through her sinuses when she had a cold.

I have stuck a clove up my fanjo before to cure thrush symptoms. It worked, But wierdly I could taste garlic in my mouth at the same time!!!!!

Debka now that IS hardcore!

She was a bit of a nutcase, you wouldn't mess with Olga!

When I had a cold recently someone recommended cutting up a garlic clove, putting it on a teaspoon and swallowing it with water! It was foul, it gave me heartburn and I swear to god my farts stank of raw garlic!

And I'm not even sure it got rid of my cold quicker! Don't get me wrong, I live garlic, but this was just too much!

Talkinpeace -- don't use nail polish if you're getting fungal infections. Your nails need to breathe.

Math
I know - but its SO ugly. I could not wear varnish for nearly 2 years because there was no 'surface' to put it on !
The nail is getting better as I'm clearing up the nail bed ...

Putting garlic in the chickens drinker is meant to be a natural wormer.

So to clarify this is a fungal nail infection you used this for?

garlic is good for allsorts of health issuses,garlic can also help diabetes but garlic thins the blood so if taking it alot check with gp first.

Haha, no, my garlic-bulb-eating-friend was definitely Ukrainian... but i do have 2 friends from Transylvania..... one looks a lot like Kate Beckinsale who starred in the Van Helsing film.

Not fungal nail infection.
Foot infection : as antibiotics, antivirals, surgery (yes really) and topical antiseptics did not whack it - but garlic did.
The nails are on top of the infected toes and grow slower than the skin ...

I've used raw garlic when I've had Mastitis three times. I had a couple of cloves chopped into small pieces and swallowed with orange juice, I think the 'recipe' was to have 8 cloves a day.

Who knows if it was co-incidence but I didnt have to resort to Anti Biotics ( dont have an issue with using them if really needed)

to get rid of garlic breath you need to chew some parsley

snice by the sounds of it if you bung some parsley up your fanjo that should also do the job

I really really can't believe anyone would put garlic up their fanjo and even more can't believe anyone would sew a little garlic vag bag to do just that. There are very few thing I will insert in my fanjo and garlic certainly isn't one, doesn't matter how damned itchy it is.
Used to give garlic to my horse as a fly repellent though.

Quite frankly, garlic is probably not the strangest thing I've shoved up my fango and sewing it into a bag is a sensible idea as it makes it easier to find, come morning when one wishes to remove it.
Oh and it works more effectively and is cheaper than canestan.

Yes, we should all eat it, and then everything'll taste fab and we won't smell anyone's halitosis. Good idea OP.