A friend of mine's kid had terrible digestive problems starting from birth. Gas, diarrhea, cramping, etc. She took the kid to a myriad of doctors. Did allergy tests, elimination diets... Some things helped a little but they never felt that the kid really had normal digestion.

Finally they took him to a naturopath, who said the kid had fungus overgrowth, and prescribed... garlic. The kid was about 4 at the time and they worked garlic into as many meals as possible. Mashed potatoes, chicken, roasted garlic on pizza, or by itself, etc. There were about 4 weeks of die-off / backlash, but finally the kid established pretty normal digstion and has been fine ever since.

Garlic is a natural anti-fungal and of course is delicious to boot. My theory is that whole, natural foods that are delicious have positive nutritious / medicinal qualities. I sometimes eat a raw clove of garlic just as an aid for general gut health, in fact i will go do that right now.

Sunlight has some antibiotic/antifungal properties--hence you always find the gunky stuff in a dark, wet place.

Hanging clothes in the sunshine, basking (not burning) in the sun every chance you get have both helped me and I do hit citrus hard when I'm sick.

40,000 IUs Vitamin D3 for 1-2 days has knocked out any viral infection symptoms for me. This has been shared anecdotally from others on the MDA site. Apparently it can be used for systemic infections as well. Here's a link about the hypothesis behind it:

http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/news-archive/2006/is-vitamin-d-an-antibiotic/

Also anecdotal, but has worked for me many times (even before D megadosing) is 3 drops of 3% Hydrogen Peroxide in each ear, held for 30 sec-2 min 3 x/day.

http://www.purestcolloids.com/no-cold.php

Placebo works miracles too, sometimes.

http://www.skrewtips.com/2007/08/09/natural-antibiotics-that-may-help-ward-off-infection/

12 years ago, I came down with chronic epididymitis, and after four courses of antibiotics over two years, it kept coming back. So, I figured that if the doctors were just going to keep throwing antibiotics at it, I may as well try this stuff I'd come across called colloidal silver. I bought one of the more sophisticated, current-controlled CS generators and started making my own CS at home. My epididymitis responded just as well to the CS as it did to the doxycycline and Cipro, and it cost a whole lot less than doctors and prescriptions. I used CS for several years before finally consulting with a medical intuitive, who put me on a crazy supplement regimen for six months that pretty much solved the problem for good. I no longer need to take CS regularly, but it's always there to nuke colds before they can get a hold.

And, don't bother responding to this with all sorts of scare stories about people turning blue from taking colloidal silver. Those people all ingested silver in highly concentrated form. Properly made CS is made with pure silver and steam distilled water ONLY and is 20 PPM or less. At that concentration you'd die of excess water consumption before you could ingest enough silver to cause argyria.

I recently got rid of h. Pylori using oregano oil, grapefruit seed oil and mastic gum in combination with Klaire Labs InterFase Plus biofilm buster on an empty stomach, followed by charcoal tablets and pectin 1 hour later. I rotated the botanicals over the course of a week.

There is a bacteria that is naturally present in about 1 in 10,000 people and naturally inhabits the tongue and throat- it is unique in that it produces it's own beneficial anti biotic - a bacteriolysis inhibiting substance. (blis) for the lucky 1 in ten thousand of us they dont get any sore throats - at least not of bacterial origin. A scientist in New Zealand at the university of Otago identified a child with this superbacteria and developed a way of culturing it into a suspended(10,million/culture pill) so when the rest of us take antibiotics and knock everything out - you can recolinise with this superstrain as long as you suck on these pills within 24hrs of stopping the antibiotics. Once you have recolinised with this strain you are at much lower risk of getting strep throat/rheumatic fever and damaged mitral heart valve. This is what i call smart science - BLIS technology produce the pill and it's available in some countries via chemist/drug stores - also used to reduce bad breath.

Note this bacteria is natural to the throat not the gut you have to recolonise with gut specific bacteria for the gut -bifidus,acidophilous etc ( these are not superbacteria but also important non theless

I suffered from c. diff from December of '12 through March of '13. It's a beast of an infection. Steering way clear of it is one of my number one priorities in life. Probably for the rest of my life.