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Old 04-03-2005, 02:09 PM
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Default Re: Food as Medicine !!!!!

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Originally Posted by allmike

ASTHMA? EAT ONIONS!!!!
Eating onions helps ease constriction of bronchial tubes. (when I was young, my mother would make onion packs to place on our chest, helped the respiratory ailments and actually made us breathe better).
Ugh!! I suffer from asthma but I'd rather suffocate than do that!! Or drink tea or coke for that matter, which supposedly also help Can't stand onions.

Some of those are quite well-known, though.
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