Is it possible to cure MRSA with a common garden staple?

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), also known as “Staph”, is a strain of Staphylococcus that is resistant to broad-spectrum antibiotics. There are two kinds of MRSA infections, Community Associated (CA-MRSA) and Healthcare Facility associated (HA-MRSA). The CA-MRSA is becoming more prevalent in our society. It is commonly found as skin infections in athletes, prisoners, and soldiers. HA-MRSA infections tend to be the worse then CA-MRSA. People in hospitals or nursing facilities tend to have weakened immune systems and open wounds and sores, which allows for easy colonization. It can even colonize inside a person’s body and slowly attack organs.

Some have called MRSA a “super-bug” due to its resistance to antibiotics. Some MRSA infections can be controlled using non-traditional staph antibiotics, such as Vancomyacin, but there have been reports of strains that do not respond to any antibiotics. The infections that don’t respond to antibiotics tend to be the HA-MRSA. If antibiotics won’t kill this “super-bug”, what will?

Ancient Egyptians knew of the secret of garlic. It was even widely used in WWI and II, and not for cooking. Garlic has been known for its many medicinal properties for thousands of years. Soldiers in WWI used garlic to cure dysentery. In WWII when antibiotics were scarce and wounds plentiful, garlic was known as “Russian Penicillin”. I’ll even admit to using garlic overnight on a persistently infected toe only to wake the next morning to find it healing again. There are reports of garlic even being effective in treating acne.

How does garlic do this? When the cell walls in garlic are broken, the plant emits the amino acid alliin and the enzyme allinase. When these two mix, they create a new compound, allicin. Allicin is what makes crushed garlic stink so good. It is also the antibiotic chemical in garlic. So, lets run out to Wal-Mart and buy garlic pills, then we can sit back and watch our ails disappear. Not so fast. Allicin has a very short half-life. By the time you take the garlic pills almost all of the allicin is gone. Garlic pills are still a great supplement, though. There is enough allicin there to help certain things, but not enough to cure MRSA.

So now, the question is how do we combat MRSA. I don’t want to endorse companies, mostly because the president of the US division of this company paid me the respects of a four-word answer to a well thought out email, but there is only one company with the rights to the product. So what is the product? It’s a stabile form of allicin. For decades, research has been ongoing to find a way to stabilize allicin. Then someone figured it out, it’s stabilized in some sort of cold water processing. I have seen the medical journals and studies (the links will be at the end), and this product really seems to work.

Finally, I ask the government a question. Why can’t you (Medicaid) pay for this product to treat my dying friend?

I wrote this article for informative purposes, to get the word out about stabilized allicin, but also to try to get some suggestions on how to go about raising money to buy this for her. If you have any fund-raising suggestion, low-key would be best since it’s a local hospital that gave it to her, I would love to hear your ideas.

Now for the links!!

http://www.allimax.us/Allicin.pdf

http://www.allimax.us/April2005.pdf

http://www.healthsalon.org/375/mrsa-alternative-treatment-with-allicin-testimonial/

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/25704.php