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Flu Facts: Five Things You Didn’t Know About the Flu

February 24, 2018 By Gwen Brown 4 Comments

Flu Fact #4: Cutting an onion will attract and kill airborne viruses

cold and flu remedies-3This “old country doctor” story goes something like this: cut an onion and leave it sitting out around your home. It will attract and kill all of the germs in the air, and prevent you from getting sick. Because they collect and kill toxic germs, onions are poisonous if you let them sit out too long.

This one is FALSE. Cutting an onion in a room does NOT magically catch and prevent germs. It’s an internet classic that makes its rounds every year, and some people believe in this theory. That’s probably because onions really ARE a fantastic historic remedy, and are amazingly gifted at helping prevent and treat common illnesses. Leaving them cut and laying around the house is NOT going to prevent illness (as some of the ladies on the Herbal Chick Chat group attested to). It might kill a germ that lands on it randomly, but it’s not a germ magnet, and it won’t clean the air in your home. It will only make it onion scented.

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But it IS easy to use onions and garlic in the REAL way they’ve been used through history to support health, and to address sore throats, ear aches, and more using what the old timers called an onion poultice. And you can learn the way use garlic remedies here.
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Dr. Rob says: I agree with this completely with the above. This is indeed a myth. However, onions can play a role in preventing  cold, flu and various disease.

This is largely due to the compounds they contain such as, sulfoxides, thiosulfinates and odorous cysteine sulfoxides—makes you cry when you cut them. Collectively, these compounds are toxic to harmful organisms, play a role in cancer and heart disease prevention, and accordingly act as a great immune-supporting foods for general disease prevention and health.

Last but not least: Flu Fact #5

You can catch the flu more than once in a season

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  1. Beth says

    February 27, 2018 at 9:51 PM

    Very interesting!

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  2. mediaonline says

    March 6, 2018 at 3:55 PM

    I think it depends, on what I’m not sure. I’ve have really good experiences and some bad ones. When my daughter was 3 months old she had severe reflux, to the point of not being able to eat.. they were fast. We got out in 3 hours. When she was 5 months she became lethargic with a fever and no other symptoms, after 9 hours we still hadn’t seen a doctor. Keep in mind my daughter is premature (2 months) so things that may not seem like much, can be huge for her. The hospital does get bombarded with situations that don’t exactly require emergency care, for instance, when we were there because of an unexplained fever, there was a 30-ish yr old women there with a Charlie horse in her hand.? She was there for 11 hours (I think they were hoping she’d just leave). We try not to go to any clinics or hospitals because of my daughters weak immune system, and use the health unit or that hot line number for advice and suggestions.

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    • Gwen Brown says

      March 16, 2018 at 2:49 PM

      Absolutely…risk assessment is individualized. It’s important that you talk with your doctor to know what situations require medical treatment.

      Reply
  3. Ruvim Gul says

    March 31, 2018 at 6:24 PM

    Very interesting indeed!! Risk assessment is personalized and personalization is the most important things too.

    Reply

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