019 Onions

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It is an old folk remedy: when someone in the household is ill with flu, place a cut up onion in a crockery dish near their bed. Refresh the onion as it shrivels or dries. This will lessen the severity of the illness in those afflicted, and prevent the spread of the ailment to others in the home.

Some take it further; during flu season, they place cut onions in crockery dishes near all window sills and doorways.

Modern science scoffs at this idea, that germs can be drawn into a vegetable and absorbed.

It is not germs the onion absorbs.

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