Influenza
Date:
Friday, January 22, 2010, 5:00 PM
From: A.R.
Subject: Onions
To: Bob Butts
A friend of mine told me a story about when he was a kid he was in the hospital
& nearly dying. His Italian grandmother came to the hospital & told a family
member to go buy her a large onion & a new pair of white cotton socks. She
sliced the onion open then put a slice on the bottom of each of his feet & put
the white cotton socks on him. In the morning when he awoke they removed the
socks. The slices of onion were black & his fever was gone. The following story
that someone sent to me might have some truth in it & we are going to try it
this winter.
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
T he 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 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 s ome 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.
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, antisepti properties.
One more thing, never Open store cut onions and consume the next day.