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 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.
Immediately, I began to research online to see if this could have even a grain of truth to it. Google had a large number of entries about people receiving this email and all had been posted this week. Now I did find all the benefits of eating onions, from preventing diabetes to helping asthma, but no one could actually verify this Flu story.
Since every time I get the Flu shot, I get sick, I have been debating whether or not to get it. This year we get to take 2 shots and I think I will get them both on the same day so I can get real sick. At least I won't have to listen to Joe tell me "You should have gotten the Flu shot" when I get the flu. I know I am going to be sick either way.
