>>Except that I think I'd rather take my chances with the flu than with the vaccine. I just eat a lot of raw onion the evening I feel like I may have some symptoms the next day, and the viruses go out to puke and don't come back. I can eat onions like apples.
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>>...for which there's a trick, the same as for the hot peppers: they burn your mouth when the capsaicin oxydates, so if you eat them without ventilation (i.e. breathe strictly through your nose - or someone else's, if you can :), the irritation is only minor. The worst thing you can do is to rapidly suck air - it only speeds it up. Though, I use that trick sparingly when I'm about to prevent a flu - I want to sweat it out then.
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>Magnesium citrate will clean you out in less than a minute.

So will cyanide, more thoroughly ;). This is at least some pleasure, and the hyperventilation gets you sort of high. The Romans were feeding their soldiers onions before the battle, to rev up the pep talk. And, know what, my last serious flu was, lemme think... in the seventies. Beyond that, it was at most two or three days of swampy nose, and that's it. And I was riding a bicycle all winter for about 15 years.