IT DROVE AWAY DRACULA, AND TO THIS DAY IT’S SUPPOSED TO KEEP VANPIRES AWAY

A medical marvel! The surprising way GARLIC can help remove a splinter - but be prepared for a very stinky sleep

By Carly Stern

Daily Mail
September 3, 2018

When tweezer just can't seem to pull out a stubborn splinter, there is an alternative — but it's going to reek.

Delish.com points out this week that cloves of garlic can actually be used as a natural way to remove a splinter, whether it be made of wood, glass, or something else.

Unfortunately, though, it takes more than just a rub of the clove to pull the splinter out, and the method may scare off anyone put the most desperate.

If a splinter is too small or too deep to pull out, wash the area and then head to the pantry.

Peel a clove of garlic and cut it in half. Then, place the sliced side of one half of the clove against the skin.

Here's where it gets tricky: Using duct tape, fasten the clove there and seal it up, and sleep with it there overnight.

Delish points to a 2017 Old Farmer's Almanac piece in which a woman tested out the method with great results. After getting a shard of glass painfully lodged in her foot, she taped on a garlic clove, pulled on a sock, and went to bed.

'I had an early morning appointment and rose before dawn. Lo and behold! I pulled the tape from my foot, stepped down hard, and—no pain! Also no sign of swelling or redness at the site of yesterday’s pain,' she wrote.

Other bloggers have also tested the trick and posted the positive results online.

Scientific studies show that garlic is a natural antibiotic, and that it also has anti-inflammatory properties. Calming any swelling can ease pain and also potentially help urge the splinter toward the surface of the skin.

According to the Almanac, it has a lot of other uses as well, if you can get pass the stench.

For one, it can be used as an insect repellent, and may ward off mosquitoes.

It can also help sufferers of arthritis, diabetes, bronchitis, and dandruff.

EDITOR’S NOTE: I know garlic keeps vampires away because I sleep every night with a garland of garlic cloves around my neck. But it doesn’t help me with my dandruff.

I have to keep several garlands at hand because occasionally my dog will chew up the garlic around my neck while I’m asleep.

Come to think of it, the garlic must have been what fucked up my sex life. Shortly after I started wearing the garland, my wife up and moved her ass to another bedroom … and she locked the door.