Unusual "cure" for the flu

[mizzdy]

A friend of mine was working for a German woman and her family down in TX many years ago and most of them came down with a nasty upper respitory something and many couldn't work. She made them all some kind of onion soup which they all had to eat and when the soup was gone they left the onion in the pot all night the next morning all but one was able to go back to work. God certainly is amazing and definately has a sense of humor otherwise why would He create something that is a cure all that smells so bad.

[Blien]

My mom's cure is HOT (like scolding) Milk with Honey. Honey is a natural anti-biotic, did you guys know that? I just learned that last week.. lol. Who knew?

[Trusting Jesus]

I have learned a few things about honey and it has a lot of wonderful qualities. Putting some on a pimple and covering with a band aid is supposed to really help, and local honey should help with hay fever.

I believe that God gave us natural remedies for our diseases. I'm not saying that people should not go to the doctor, but there are natural cures that are less expensive and work.

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Nathele

[other one]

I received an email with an interesting way to combat the flu. Now, I'm not wishing ill upon my family, but if one of us gets the flu I just might try this.

This is the email:

A friend of mine told me a story about how when he was a kid he was in the hospital & near 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 this 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.

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 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 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!!!!!! !!!!!!!!

Now there is a P. S. to this for I sent it to a friend in Oregon who regularly contributes material to me on health issues. She replied with this most interesting experience about onions:

Weldon,thanks for the reminder. I don't know about the farmers story...but, I do know that 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, antiseptic properties.

I can't say that an onion won't help, but the doctors story is not all factual. First of all the flu is not caused by bacteria, it is the result of a virus, and they are too small to see in an optical microscope. So I know that part is fiction.

Whether or not the onion will help with virus's I don't know, and with me taking flu shots, I don't get the flu enough to try it out.

If we come down with a good dose this winter, I'll surely give it a try.

I do know that when my dad was small and got bit by a copperhead snake, my grandmother went outside and caught a young chicken and just ripped it open with her bare hands and stuck it on the snake bite. Four or five hours later the insides of the chicken was black as you're speaking of here, and dad had no reaction to the bite at all. Even the puncture wounds healed quickly.

Gee, I was thinking it would be good to get the flu to try this out...... what in the world is wrong with me....

BTW I know from being allergic to bee stings that wet tobacco will help keep stings from hurting so bad and helps with the alergic reaction..... not nearly as good as benedryl though.

[Guest LadyC]

a baking soda paste works just as well for bee stings. tobacco only works if it's snuff or chew. trust me, i was a smoker for most of my life, and i tried using tobacco out of my cigarettes many times. doesn't matter how much i spit on it, that tobacco was too dried out to do any good.

[other one]

a baking soda paste works just as well for bee stings. tobacco only works if it's snuff or chew. trust me, i was a smoker for most of my life, and i tried using tobacco out of my cigarettes many times. doesn't matter how much i spit on it, that tobacco was too dried out to do any good.

My dad smoked cigars come to think of it and that's what we used then. I've always wanted to try that rip a chicken apart thing my grandmother used for snake bites, but all that screaming at the bee always scares the chickens away.

[mizzdy]

BTW I know from being allergic to bee stings that wet tobacco will help keep stings from hurting so bad and helps with the alergic reaction..... not nearly as good as benedryl though.

Oh you haven't 'lived' until your grandfather hooks his fingers in his mouth and slaps a bunch of chew on a sting! It really is disgusting but works pretty well and if you get it on the sting quick enough it does help if you have allergies to bees and wasps. My mom used to keep a can of stuff in the house just for such a case.

[Trusting Jesus]

BTW I know from being allergic to bee stings that wet tobacco will help keep stings from hurting so bad and helps with the alergic reaction..... not nearly as good as benedryl though.

Oh you haven't 'lived' until your grandfather hooks his fingers in his mouth and slaps a bunch of chew on a sting! It really is disgusting but works pretty well and if you get it on the sting quick enough it does help if you have allergies to bees and wasps. My mom used to keep a can of stuff in the house just for such a case.

I think I would rather put up with the bee sting! I always would slap some mud on it until I could get some baking soda.

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Nathele

[MorningGlory]

BTW I know from being allergic to bee stings that wet tobacco will help keep stings from hurting so bad and helps with the alergic reaction..... not nearly as good as benedryl though.

Oh you haven't 'lived' until your grandfather hooks his fingers in his mouth and slaps a bunch of chew on a sting! It really is disgusting but works pretty well and if you get it on the sting quick enough it does help if you have allergies to bees and wasps. My mom used to keep a can of stuff in the house just for such a case.

I think I would rather put up with the bee sting! I always would slap some mud on it until I could get some baking soda.

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Nathele

[Shiloh62]

I received an email with an interesting way to combat the flu. Now, I'm not wishing ill upon my family, but if one of us gets the flu I just might try this.

This is the email:

A friend of mine told me a story about how when he was a kid he was in the hospital & near 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 this 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.

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 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 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!!!!!! !!!!!!!!

Now there is a P. S. to this for I sent it to a friend in Oregon who regularly contributes material to me on health issues. She replied with this most interesting experience about onions:

Weldon,thanks for the reminder. I don't know about the farmers story...but, I do know that 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, antiseptic properties.

I like it! God gave us so many natural ingredients that work far better than any man-made drug ever could or will. I've heard of the healing properties of garlic, so this comes as no surprise. Thanks for sharing.