ONIONS FOR COLLECTING THE FLU VIRUS

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 virus, therefore, keeping the family healthy.

Now, I heard this NEXT story from a 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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cool- I've never heard that story before

I bet it works by clearing out your sinuses and tear ducts. *weeps*

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You mean that someone really believe that the secret to antiviral based defense is--onions?

I weep for humanity. That is, I weep with laughter.

I have no idea if it works, but I think that it would be very cool to test it out...especially with the flu season we are having!

that is so cool!!!!!

Hiya everyone...

Just to add on to this circulating myth, I received an email from my colleague on this as well, since there's a coughing epidemic going around in my office. The first part is pretty much what purplesage30 had stated, but there was a P.S. to the story in the email circulated to me:

"...I sent it to a friend in Oregon who regularly contributes to me on health issues. She replied with this most interesting experience about onions:

Thanks for the reminder. I don't know about the farmers story...but I do know that I contracted pneumonia and needless to say, I was very ill...I came across an article that said to cut both ends of an onion, put one end on a fork and then place the forked end into an empty jar before 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."


Truth? Fiction? I look forward to having the Mythbusters tackling this one!

But you do have to wonder...it is true that onions seem extra absorbent...after all, if you wan to keep your fridge odor free, one way was to leave a sliced onion in it to absorb all the smells...seems to work for me, at least.

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Truth? Fiction? I look forward to having the Mythbusters tackling this one!

Fiction

Curious if those emails are true or not? Simply search at snopes.com (the Urban Legend website) and odds are they have the answer.