HERB - Bug bite remedy please? and more...
Katherine Blackthorne
kblackthorne at midtown.net
Tue May 2 08:09:50 PDT 2000
joanne baek wrote:
> I was trying
> to tell them bug repellents are really nasty chemicals, but I
> failed to come up with a remedy that I felt good about sending.
> (i.e. to send a months supply for all the campers).
You're right -- commercial repellants are a combination of perfume (which draws
the bugs) and poison (which makes you taste bad if they bite you). Who wants
that on their skin?
The best natural repellant I know of is to consume lots of B-vitamins &
garlic. These things make you smell (and, I presume, taste) bad to bugs. I
have mixed brewers yeast (rich in B-complex) & garlic powder in my cats' food
to keep fleas off them. (They never got fleas when I did this, though they did
if I stopped.) I also currently take B supplements. After 10 minutes in my
garden, mosquitoes arrive out of no where. But they never get close enough to
me to bite.
I haven't had a chance yet to try the recipe that was posted here a while a
go...I really ought to. (After all, sometimes I forget my vitamins & don't
have a nice garlic spread handy!)
--Katherine
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