Read an interesting article about Onions that I would like to share with you:

Many believe that Onions and Garlic are very healthy and should be consumed on a daily basis to stay healthy. However, despite the scientific claims, there is more guesswork than facts. Most of the claims made in most sites start of with “It MAY…” While the apparent cardiovascular implications of vegetable Alliums has been studied in some detail, the clinical implications of onion and garlic consumption are still not well understood.  There is one role though that garlics and onions play perfectly -they are extremely powerful antibiotics! This is a fact and the true purpose of garlics and onions.

The Story

In 1919 when the flu killed 40 million people, there was a Doctor who visited many farmers to see if he could help them combat the flu. Many of the farmers and their family had contracted it, and many died.

The doctor came upon one farmer, and to his surprise, everyone in the household 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!

The Experience

There was a hairdresser I knew once who 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… (And no, she is not in the onion business!)

The moral of the story is, buy some onions and place them in bowls around your home. If you work at a desk, place one or two in your office or under your desk or even on top somewhere.

Try it and see what happens. We did it last year, and we never got anything .

If this helps you and your loved ones from getting sick, all the better. If you do get the flu, it just might be a mild case… Whatever, what have you to lose? Just a few bucks on onions!!!!!

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 contracted pneumonia, and needless to say I was very ill…I came across an article that said to cut both ends off an onion. Put one end on a fork, and then place the forked end into an empty jar…placing 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.

Onion contains complex sulphur compounds and Garlic is very toxic. Why? Because the sulphone hydroxyl ion penetrates the blood-brain barrier, just like DMSO, and is a specific poison for higher life-forms and brain cells. Bob Beck (DSc) discovered this, much to his horror, when he was the world’s largest manufacturer of ethical EEG feedback equipment. The rest in his own words…

“We’d have people come back from lunch that looked clinically dead on an encephalograph, which we used to calibrate their progress. “Well, what happened?” “Well, I went to an Italian restaurant and there was some garlic in my salad dressing!” So we had ’em sign things that they wouldn’t touch garlic before classes or we were wasting their time, their money and my time.”

Another Interesting Story about Garlic

“I was in flight test engineering in Doc Hallan’s group in the 1950’s. The flight surgeon would come around every month and remind all of us: “Don’t you dare touch any garlic 72 hours before you fly one of our airplanes, because it’ll double or triple your reaction time. You’re three times slower than you would be if you’d not had a few drops of garlic.” Well, we didn’t know why for 20 years, until I owned the Alpha-Metrics Corporation. We were building biofeedback equipment and found out that garlic usually desynchronizes your brain waves. So I funded a study at Stanford and, sure enough, they found that it’s a poison. You can rub a clove of garlic on your foot, and you can smell it shortly later on your wrists. So it penetrates the body. This is why DMSO smells a lot like garlic: that sulphone hydroxyl ion penetrates all the barriers, including the corpus callosum in the brain. Any of you who are organic gardeners know that if you don’t want to use DDT, garlic will kill anything in the way of insects. Now, most people have heard most of their lives that garlic is good for you, and we put those people in the same class of ignorance as the mothers who at the turn of the century would buy morphine sulphate in the drugstore and give it to their babies to put ’em to sleep.”

Bottom line is, if you have any patients who have low-grade headaches or attention deficit disorder, they can’t quite focus on the computer in the afternoon, just do an experiment – you owe it to yourselves. Take these people off garlic and see how much better they get, very very shortly. And then let them eat a little garlic after about three weeks. They’ll say, “My God, I had no idea that this was the cause of our problems.” And this includes the de-skunked garlics, Kyolic, some of the other products.

Bob Beck also found in his research on human brain function in the 1980’s that garlic has a detrimental effect on the brain and researching this further he learned that many yoga groups and philosophical teachings caution against the use of garlic and onions as they are known to interfere with meditation practices. Some aware individuals have actually described themselves as experiencing brain fog after having garlic. (From Nexus Magazine Feb/Mar 2001.Source: From a lecture by Dr. Robert C. Beck, DSc, given at the Whole Life Expo, Seattle, WA, USA, in March 1996.)

Even when garlic is used as food in Chinese culture it is considered harmful to the stomach, liver and eyes, and a cause of dizziness and scattered energy when consumed in immoderate amounts.

Nor is garlic always seen as having entirely beneficial properties in Western cooking and medicine. It is widely accepted among health care professionals that, as well as killing harmful bacteria, garlic also destroys beneficial bacteria, which are essential to the proper functioning of the digestive system.

Reiki practitioners explain that garlic and onions are among the first substances to be expelled from a person’s system – along with tobacco, alcohol and pharmaceutical medications. This makes it apparent that alliaceous plants have a negative effect on the human body and should be avoided for health reasons.

Homeopathic medicine comes to the same conclusion when it recognizes that red onion produces a dry cough, watery eyes, sneezing, runny nose and other familiar cold-related symptoms when consumed.

So all in all, its not merely a coincidence that most spiritual paths suggest the avoidance of onions and garlic. There is sufficient scientific and historical proof. Garlic and onion are avoided by spiritual adherents because they stimulate the central nervous system, and can disturb vows of celibacy. Garlic is a natural aphrodisiac. Ayurveda suggests that it is a tonic for loss of sexual power from any cause, sexual debility, impotency from over-indulgence in sex and nervous exhaustion from dissipating sexual habits. It is said to be especially useful to old men of high nervous tension and diminishing sexual power. Similar things are described in Ayurveda. ‘As well as producing offensive breath and body odour, these (alliaceous) plants induce aggravation, agitation, anxiety and aggression. Thus they are harmful physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually’.

The Taoists realized thousands of years ago that plants of the alliaceous family were detrimental to humans in their healthy state. In his writings, one sage Tsang-Tsze described the Alliums as the “five fragrant or spicy scented vegetables” – that each have a detrimental effect on one of the following five organs – liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys, and heart. Specifically, onions are harmful to the lungs, garlic to the heart, leeks to the spleen, chives to the liver and spring onions to the kidneys.

Tsang-Tsze said that these pungent vegetables contain five different kinds of enzymes which cause “reactions of repulsive breath, extra-foul odour from perspiration and bowel movements, and lead to lewd indulgences, enhance agitations, anxieties and aggressiveness,” especially when eaten raw.Not so well known is the fact that garlic in the raw state can carry harmful (potentially fatal) botulism bacteria. Perhaps it is with an awareness of this that the Roman poet Horace wrote of garlic that it is “more harmful than hemlock”.

Onion’s and Garlic have not enjoyed any respect throughout history in the higher class’s. For example, in Egypt, Greece, and Rome, they were worthy of only being fed to the laborers and slaves. It was actually a very big part of their diet and it was considered very unethical, low, and dirty for members of a higher caste/class to eat it.

Learning Lessons:

1. Eat ONLY freshly-cut garlic or onion.

2. Try to avoid consuling onion when dining out because most likely the onions are cut left exposed to the open air for hours.

Written by Bryan Golden

You have objectives you want to accomplish.  Some of them are easily achieved.  Others are more challenging.  Then there are times when you feel as if you are up against a brick wall when trying to achieve some goals.  When this happens, it seems as if it’s impossible to make any progress.

What should you do when you are facing a brick wall?  Some people will give up, resigning themselves to accepting their goals as unattainable.  They may also justify their quitting by thinking it must not be meant to be.  Failure only occurs when one quits.  Therefore quitting is not a suitable strategy.

Brick walls test your resolve.  The only people who get past them are those who want to reach their objective badly enough.  The reason there are fewer successful people than unsuccessful ones is because of the deterrent effect of brick walls.

In order to get past a brick wall you must be more than motivated.  You need a burning desire.  You have to be willing to devote whatever time and effort is necessary.  Moving beyond a brick wall in your path is not an easy task.  However, there are limitless rewards on the other side.

As you progress through life, you will encounter multiple brick walls.  With each one you break through you become stronger.  You gain confidence as you go.  Some walls are thicker than others.  But none can stop you when you decide your progress will not be halted.

Here are the traits you need to get through a brick wall: determination, persistence, perseverance, drive, endurance, desire, flexibility, and consistency.  These are the same characteristics all successful people share.

Determination gives you a laser like focus.  It enables you to concentrate all your efforts in one direction.  This gives you incredible power which leads to awesome accomplishments.  Persistence is what carved the Grand Canyon from solid rock with nothing more than rainwater.  Imagine what persistence will do for you.

Perseverance keeps you going when others stop and turn back.  How long it takes to break through your wall doesn’t matter.  The time goes by anyway.  You never want to look back on today and wish you had kept going.

Drive keeps you in gear and moving forward.  Just revving your engine may make lots of noise but it gets you nowhere.  Endurance gives you the ability to keep going when you are exhausted.  It’s when you feel you have nothing left that you must keep at it.

Desire is the fuel that keeps your engine of accomplishment running.  You know you have a burning desire when you want something so bad you can taste it.  Desire allows you to keep your laser focused.

Flexibility enables you to be resourceful and creative when formulating strategies to break through your walls.  Not everything you attempt will work as expected.  Flexibility empowers you to adjust your approach as necessary to produce the results you want.

Consistency is the opposite of being a flash in the pan.  You don’t just put in some effort for a predetermined, limited period of time.  Consistency keeps you hammering at your wall day in and day out.

Not only can you break through your brick walls, you only encounter them when you are on the right track.  Anything worthwhile takes effort.  The loftier your goals, the bigger the walls you will encounter.

The next time your encounter a wall, focus not on the wall but on the path that lies beyond. To become discouraged and turn back is a shame.  The only direction is forward.  Let nothing stand in your way.