onions and colds

contributed by Ethnomedica 19 Jan | 17:27


Take half an onion and hang it on the bedpost overnight. Maybe you took the half with the stalk on it, and tied it on, or maybe you put it in muslin. I cannot remember but it use to work.

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From Norfolk (UK) in the 1930s

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