American Folk Medicine against the flu:  ONIONS

In

1919 when the flu killed 40 million people there was this

Doctor that

visited the many farmers to see if he could help them

combat the flu. 

 

Many of the farmers and their family had contracted

it and many died.

  

The doctor came upon this one farmer and to his

surprise, everyone 

was very healthy. When the doctor asked what  the

farmer was doing 

that was different the wife replied  that she had

placed an 

unpeeled onion 

in a dish in the rooms of the home, (probably only two

rooms back then).  

The  doctor couldn't believe it and asked if he

could have one of the 

onions and placed it

under the microscope.  She gave him one and

when he did this, he did find the flu virus in  the

onion. It obviously 

absorbed the bacteria, therefore, keeping the family

healthy.  

  

Now, I heard this story from my hairdresser in AZ.  

She said that several 

years ago many of her employees were coming down with

the flu and so 

were many of her customers.  The next year she placed

several bowls 

with  onions around in her shop.  To her surprise, none

of her staff got

sick. It must work..  (And no, she is not in the

onion business.)

  

The moral of the story is, buy some onions and place

them in bowls 

around your home.  If you work at a desk,  place

one or two in your 

office or under your desk or even on top

somewhere.  Try it and 

see what  happens.  We did it last year and

we never got the flu.

  

If this helps you and your loved ones from getting

sick, all the better.  

If you do get the flu, it just might  be a mild

case..

  

Whatever, what have you to lose?  Just a few bucks

on onions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

Now

there is a P. S. to this for I sent it to a friend in Oregon

who regularly

contributes material to me on health issues.  She

replied with this most 

interesting experience about onions: 

I

don't know about the farmers story...

but, I do know that I contacted pneumonia 

and needless to say I was very 

ill...I came across an article that said to cut both ends

off an onion, put one

end on a fork and then place the forked end into an empty

jar...placing the 

jar next to the sick patient at night. It said the onion

would be black in the 

morning from the germs...sure enough it happened just like

that...

the onion was a mess and I began to feel better.

Another thing I read in the

article was that onions and garlic placed

around the room saved many from the black plague years ago.

They have powerful antibacterial, antiseptic

properties.