Magic Onion tricks to prevent/cure flues and other illness

Wow- very interesting....
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 families 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. 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. Try it and see what happens. We did it last year and we never got the flu.

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:

Thanks for the reminder. I don't know about the farmer's 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 it into an empty jar, and place 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.

This is the other note. Lots of times when we have stomach problems we don't know what to blame. Maybe it's the onions that are to blame. Onions absorb bacteria is the reason they are so good at preventing us from getting colds and flu and is the very reason we shouldn't eat an onion that has been sitting for a time after it has been cut open.

LEFT OVER ONIONS ARE POISONOUS

I had the wonderful privilege of touring Mullins Food Products, Makers of mayonnaise. Questions about food poisoning came up, and I wanted to share what I learned from a chemist.

Ed, who was our tour guide, is a food chemistry whiz. During the tour, someone asked if we really needed to worry about mayonnaise. People are always worried that mayonnaise will spoil. Ed's answer will surprise you. Ed said that all commercially-made mayo is completely safe.

"It doesn't even have to be refrigerated. No harm in refrigerating it, but it's not really necessary." He explained that the pH in mayonnaise is set at a point that bacteria could not survive in that environment. He then talked about the summer picnic, with the bowl of potato salad sitting on the table, and how everyone blames the mayonnaise when someone gets sick.

Ed says that, when food poisoning is reported, the first thing the officials look for is when the 'victim' last ate ONIONS and where those onions came from (in the potato salad?). Ed says it's not the mayonnaise (as long as it's not homemade mayo) that spoils in the outdoors. It's probably the ONIONS, and if not the onions, it's the POTATOES.

He explained onions are a huge magnet for bacteria, especially uncooked onions. You should never plan to keep a portion of a sliced onion.. He says it's not even safe if you put it in a zip-lock bag and put it in your refrigerator.

It's already contaminated enough just by being cut open and out for a bit, that it can be a danger to you (and doubly watch out for those onions you put in your hotdogs at the baseball park!). Ed says if you take the leftover onion and cook it like crazy you'll probably be okay, but if you slice that leftover onion and put on your sandwich, you're asking for trouble. Both the onions and the moist potato in a potato salad, will attract and grow bacteria faster than any commercial mayonnaise will even begin to break down.

Also, dogs should never eat onions. Their stomachs cannot metabolize onions.

Please remember it is dangerous to cut an onion and try to use it to cook the next day, it becomes highly poisonous for even a single night and creates toxic bacteria which may cause adverse stomach infections because of excess bile secretions and even food poisoning.

 copied from : Nourin Ibrahim & Aysha Manaal whom i don't know at all but thanks for the tip.

Retain employees with elongated promotion

In this age of internet, naukri.com and monster.com you need all the tactics you need to retain the talent. One such tactic is elongated promotion. I came across this through some HR forums online and some online reading. I guess it should work. I have not seen this personally but i think this theory should still be relevant and it should work.

Promotion
advantages: employee is happy with the recognition.
disadvantage: after few months or a year he might want to look out for a better position outside the company based on his new position, experience and tenure.

Elongated Promotion
procedure:
1) open invitation to candidates to apply for a position which isnt available or might get created. Make sure this open invitation stays for a month or more so that all the potential candidates are now have a reason to delay their job hunt outside the company for that duration of time. now shortlist the candidates.
2) Employees will be interviewed and selected for a non existing position or for a position which might get created in the future.
Make sure the interview selection process takes another month or two so that those who have applied would not try out or go out thus making them stay for another month or two.
Those who haven't applied or didn't get shortlisted will also have a positive mood and might stay during this period with the hope of getting a chance to get shortlisted for the interview for the next higher up position/promotion.
3) The selected candidate will be told to wait for some time (months or year or more) so that he will be moved to the selected position once the position becomes available.
During this period of time the employee will stay with the company since he has already got (not really) a position within the existing company. It will create a sense of positive environment around the employee making others to stay longer with the company.
4) If/Once the position is available take the candidate but as a trainee or intern; do not take him directly ! otherwise after gaining some experience in that position, based on his new role he/she might try outside for a better position and the company might lose a talent. Make the trainee remain as trainee for few weeks, months or more depending on the role and importance of the position. During this period the employee again will stay home and there might be a positive environment among his old colleagues from the old department thinking that they might be next.
5)once the training period is over confirm the position, role and the new job change but do not give the new corrective salary. In other words never promote the salary and position of an internal employee at the same time when he/she gets promoted.... Always give positive goodies/news but always give it in pieces. Try to make them feel that they are privileged to get what they are getting even though it was overdue to them. It might seem cunning and unfair but to make the best out of what we have and retain talent it is a necessary tactic.
6)Make sure all this ends when the yearly review is nearby so that you do not have to give 2 salary hikes, one for the promotion and another for the year end review & its associated hike. You can combine both the year end annual/periodic hike and the hike for the promotion into one and give a little less than the average of both the hikes combined.
Usually employees do not move out 1 or 2 months before the annual review and hike and also 4 to 5 months after the hike. Since a review and hike happens in august and then the changed salary starts after 2 months of the hike then in order for an employee to move out he needs the last payslip of the previous 3 months(to bargain for the pay package in the new company based on the pay of his old company) so that amounts to 2month (before the review and hike)+2month(changed salary will be effective after 2 months of the review and hike)+3month(need 3 month payslip for bargaining outside)=7 months. In these 7 months you can expect a low attrition in the company. In the remaining 5 months you can perform number of elongated promotions to retain the employees.
Note: These are my personal views based on my readings, experiences of my friends working in many different companies, online articles, HR forums and it has nothing to do with any one particular place of work of which i might be a part of. I like where i work and this post isnt related to that.