Onions

I have a theory about people who are obsessed with their innards and keep "cleansing" them and taking enemas.

I do wonder how seemingly intelligent people can get taken in by these faddy food "diet" detoxes. As for regularly using enemas with no good medical reason the mind just boggles.

Someone somwhere is making a tidy profit out of such business.

Don't even get me started on Hopi ear candling or crystal therapy and the benfits of hot stones placed on your back.

Go for a massage by all means, or just relax and practice some sort of meditative mind calming.
Or eat a fried onion sandwich.

There's a lot of completely dotty new-agy silliness like this around isn't there. Healthy young people convincing themselves that they need weird foods and even weirder herbs for non-existent ailments. Hobby for some, business for others.
My niece's boyfriend, a vegetarian, worries about his health and diet for no apparent reason. Takes loads of vitamins despite fretting daily about the balanced-ness of his diet. Person least in need of supplements.
They and I were staying with sister for a few days. She receives a phone call from niece "While you're town can try to get some baby spinach leaves for A, because the broccoli in the village shop doesn't look very fresh".

Jennifer Thompson who has that site is an enthusiast for detoxing - when telling how she and her boyfriend tried sleeping with cut onions in their socks "My boyfriend was feeling pretty tired and weak after his evening enema but had felt really good earlier in the day." and "My boyfriend had a terrible night and barely slept and felt that the onion fumes had upset his intestinal worms (which we are sure he has and are hoping the water fast will eliminate)"


And who says romance is dead?

What an interesting site www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/ is. I have just read another article on it entitled "The Clean Eating Delusion"

I have followed your link. Jennifer Thompson who has that site is an enthusiast for detoxing - when telling how she and her boyfriend tried sleeping with cut onions in their socks "My boyfriend was feeling pretty tired and weak after his evening enema but had felt really good earlier in the day." and "My boyfriend had a terrible night and barely slept and felt that the onion fumes had upset his intestinal worms (which we are sure he has and are hoping the water fast will eliminate)"

Poor b****r.

She will diagnose your ailments by iridology, (for a fee, and with 55 minute a phone call to the States) about which she says "In looking in the eye, we can view all body systems and organs at once, including circulatory, gastro-intestinal, glandular, skeletal, neurological, muscular and uro-genital systems"

However, on www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/iridology/ we read that iridology was invented by a Hungarian physicist entirely on the "evidence" that as a boy he had nursed a sick owl back to life, and noticed a prominent black stripe in the iris of one eye, which had gone when it was well, to be replaced by ragged white lines.

I think I put more faith in the opinions of the people I linked to earlier.

Hmmmm to healthybliss.

As I have bad arthritis in my fingers and find onions difficult to peel and cut I use frozen ones and in casseroles etc you really cannot tell the difference. And no halves left over in the fridge

Have a look at healthybliss.net
Very interesting. Don't think I'll risk keeping a bit of onion in the fridge!
But of course whatever you feel!!

Lettuce has a long tradition of sending people to sleep. It used to have the reputation too of making girls drop their knickers guard and leading to unintended pregnancies. I thought there was a bit in one of shakespeare's plays where a maid falls pregnant, and someone comments, "' . . .and she only went down the garden to cut a lettuce", which is greeted with laughter by other characters, but I can't find it.

I did find this from QI, though:-
"- The thing that is long, begins with "L", and gets you horny, sleepy and pregnant is lettuce. Hippocrates, the father of medicine, described the opiate properties of lettuce, as did Beatrix Potter in Peter Rabbit. Lettuce is soporific, and Peter nearly ends up in Mrs. McGregor's rabbit pie because he falls asleep after eating too much lettuce. Lettuce has seen been bred to be less soporific. Wild lettuce however contains tropane alkaloid, which is also in cocaine. Americans did try to sell this lettuce under the names of "L'Opium" and "Lettucene", but most of it was made out of ordinary garden lettuce. Lettuce should not be fed to rabbits because it upsets their stomachs. Victorians picnickers wrapped lettuce around butter to keep the butter fresh."

Not lettuce roots, lettuce stems, right down at the base of the plant!

My Nana used to slice raw onions, cover them with sugar, leave for the sugar to draw the moisture out of the onions, making a sort of syrup.
We were given this for coughs, colds, congestion etc.
It actually tastes okay, a bit like caramelised onions (which it is I suppose) and it works!
Nana said it was because the onion juices absorbed the bacteria from the throat and disposed of them naturally!
She also used to eat lettuce roots as an aid to sleep, low doses of laudanum in lettuce roots apparently!

ps but green and furry or black is probably a step too far

A few bacteria build up your resistance

I'm amazed I'm still alive.

Nelliemoser

I usually do that as well now durhamjen, since I was forever finding half onions wrapped in clingfilm lurking at the bottom of the veg drawer in the fridge - then throwing them out.

It sound a lot of rubbish. I also use half an onion particulary a red onion which I slice into sandwiches or such. Like "Kittylester" does.

I find a cut onion in the fridge keeps quite well for a few days often i just put them cut side down on a saucer. It gets a bit dried out and will eventually go green and furry. One of those things you discover in the back of the fridge weeks months later.

I never have half onions. I buy small ones and always use a whole one.

This reminded me of a conversation with SO a few weeks ago, he had found an open bottle of vinegar in a cupboard in my kitchen. He asked if it should be in the fridge, after I stopped laughing I gave him a little talk on food preservatives.
Later that day I saw a use by date on a bag of salt,,, salt,,,, how mad is that.
Just a ploy by manufacturers to make us buy more.
Tomato Ketchup is the one that really bugs me, it contains, Vinegar, Sugar and Salt and has been around for hundreds if not more years.

I have kept half onion in fridge with cling film round it ,and suffered no ill effects .but having said that I don't leave it in the fridge longer than 2 days .

I don't know if any one has mentioned that you shouldn't keep garlic in the fridge, since once it gets really cold it starts to grow.

Perhaps I should have a small fridge in the garage for all these hazardous substances?

Reminds me, she's coming on Saturday. Will have to hide throw out all these highly dangerous foods in the fridge

I reckon it's darling daughter at the bottom of this.
According to her food is dangerous one second after its sell by date..