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Over the long Thanksgiving weekend, everyone in our house was sick. I was on antibiotics for a nasty infection. Prince Charming slept for hours and hours and didn’t feel right. Big Brother woke up with a horrid cough. Little Sister seemed clingy – and then came down with a sudden, high fever. Stink.
All the while, I was trying to decorate for Christmas while nurturing my sick kiddos. I tried the eucalyptus oil again for Big Brother’s cough. Just like before, it took two nights but that cough disappeared.
I wanted all of the sickness out of our house, though. It was the perfect time to try a home remedy I had just heard about. Simply peel the skin off an onion and slice it. Put the sliced onion a few feet away from the head of the sick person’s bed.
I cut two onions in half and placed them in little bowls near the head of everyone’s bed. (To prevent any curiosity from my little ones, I waited until they were sound asleep.)
Our bedrooms reeked of Burger King. And if the smell was in any other room but my bedroom, I just might have gotten hungry for a Whopper Jr.
The uncooked onions are supposed to absorb all the bacteria and take the sickness away. It sounds like a simple enough solution, right?
I can’t say for sure if it works or not. The morning after our onion experiment, everyone was still sick. But we tried it a second night and everyone was feeling better the following morning. Since the only negative thing was the smell – and it was just oniony – I’ll try it again the next time we’re sick.
Talk back
Have you tried to cure a cold with sliced onions? What was the result?
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I never have, but I’m going to try it next time we’re sick. :):)
I am a huge believer in raw garlic. It heals so many things.
When done the very first day little symptoms appear (before fever) it helps a lot.
Using it with our kids from 2 years now.
Be aware of very cheap onions, they are less tasty, and less effective in our experience
I just want to say that last year I did the same here because a friend of mine told me that really take the cold away, and I gave to try I put onions in every room on my kids bed read, and now I am a onion lover more then I was before. I also fried so e onions to put on my little one chest, because he was with pneumonia and taking a lot of antibiotics and my mother in law told me fry some red onions and put on his chest and yep worked.
We were traveling to Florida when I was about 5.I had a high fever and so that night we stayed at a home of a friend….she quickly browned some onions and while they were hot added about a cup of Vicks Salve. She plastered that on my chest and soles of my feet. I still remember the smell. The nest morning I had no fever and no chest pain and the cough was gone.
I did this on several occasions with my kids and it always worked.