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H1N1 has reportedly been very bad in Michigan this year. With the shortage of vaccines will that make people turn to traditional home cures?
Have you ever heard about using a raw onion? The concerns over the H1N1 flu raising and the supplies running scarce, it’s no surprise that alternative remedies are circulating on the Web.
When the flu epidemic killed millions years ago, one widely circulated email relates a doctor visiting people where everyone stayed healthy and observed that the family had a raw onion in every room of their house.
The doctor examined the onion under a microscope and saw that the onion had indeed absorbed the flu virus. In the same email it mentions how a modern day hairdresser whose employees stopped getting the flu after she placed onions around the shop, and a pneumonia sufferer who put a raw onion in a jar by the bed woke up feeling much better. This and other home remedies are sparking discussion and debate on blogs and bulletin boards.
We all have those home remedies that our grandmother gave us in time of our illnesses. But how well do they really combat the H1N1 virus?
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the officially sanctioned vaccine is the only proven way to prevent the H1N1 virus, and the antiviral drugs oseltamivir (trade name Tamiflu) and zanamivir (Relenza) are among the few proven ways to shorten it duration. “There is no scientific evidence that any herbal, homeopathic or other peoples remedies have any benefit against influenza,” the CDC said.
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