Flu onions

hoppy · Post by **hoppy** » Mon Oct 12, 2009 12:52 pm

Very interesting and worth trying.

Flu

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 place it under the microscope. She gave him one and when he did this, he did find the flu virus in the onion. It obviously absor bed 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 onio ns 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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

farmer giles · Post by **farmer giles** » Mon Oct 12, 2009 1:38 pm

not trying to knock your theory ole pal of mine

:D

but if you had bowls of raw onions around your home you would have no visitors to give you the frikkin flu :yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

i wonder if it would keep oscar away

its spozed to work on vampires :yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

ncdave4life · Post by **ncdave4life** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 1:10 pm

Part of the story can't really be true, because flu viruses are too tiny (only about 100 nm diameter) to be seen under a normal (visible light) microscope, let alone identified.

It would require an electron microscope to see them. But there were no electron microscopes until the 1930s. In 1919, nobody on earth had ever actually seen a flu virion.

Dave

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 1:30 pm

ncdave4life;1251537 wrote: Part of the story can't really be true, because flu viruses are too tiny (only about 100 nm diameter) to be seen under a normal (visible light) microscope, let alone identified.

It would require an electron microscope to see them. But there were no electron microscopes until the 1930s. In 1919, nobody on earth had ever actually seen a flu virion.

Dave
Darn, now I have to remove the onions from my rooms. I love the smell of onions.

sharedfastlane · Post by **sharedfastlane** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 1:43 am

Snopes has it as a false.

Can't copy and paste the text there just now and the link has too much text. They say no scientific studies back it and that the cold or flu is caught, not by microbes in the air so much as being sneezed on by an infected person or touching things they have handled and then touching your lips - or ...EYES. I definitely caught a cold once when I used Mascara I had not used in a few years!

There's a lot of anecdotes out there about the efficacy of garlic/onions. I LIKE the idea.