Do Onions Prevent The Flu?

There are some people who swear by it.  And I guess for just a couple of bucks to buy the onions it's worth the try.Supposedly unpeeled onions placed in a bowls in various rooms around your home will prevent the flu.  If you work at a desk, place one or two in your office, under a desk or on top of a cabinet.  The people who've tried it say they stayed healthy all year.  One hairdresser said 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 of onions around the shop.  That year none of her staff got sick.  She swears it works.

It goes back to a flu epidemic in 1918 that killed half a million Americans and 20 to 40-million people worldwide.  One country doctor who visited home after home where family members were gravely ill or who had already died finally came to one home where everybody was fine.  What was the difference?  The family said unpeeled onions placed in bowl in all the rooms of the house kept them well.  Somehow the onions absorbed the flu virus and kept the family healthy.

Snopes.com - the rumor site says it's not true.    But there are a lot of wives' tales, old time recipes and concoctions that many people say work.  So if onions work to keep you healthy - go with it.