A friend of mine recently forwarded an e-mail to me about the healing power of onions. "I know you research all kinds of things -- any truth to this?" she asked.

The e-mail detailed a few different cures using raw onions. One called for sleeping with onion slices in your socks (white socks) to bring down a fever. Another, putting an unpeeled onion in a dish in each room to draw in the flu virus (and thereby not infect the occupant of the room).

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