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• Onion

  The bulb of the onion plant is a valued medicine as well as a popular vegetable. Onions have been cultivated for centuries. The species has been... More ...

• Onion

  Allium cepa (Liliaceae) More ...

• Onion

  Allium cepa (Liliaceae) More ...

• Thin the blood

  1 out of 1 people report this seems to have worked for them.

  I can remember being given onions as a tonic “to thin the blood”. I was never sure what people mean by that phrase. The onions were... More ...

• Treating coughs

  3 out of 3 people report this seems to have worked for them.

  Onions can be used to treat respiratory infections. For example, when members of the family had a cough onions were crushed then left for a whil... More ...

• Onions used to cure colds

  3 out of 3 people report this seems to have worked for them.

  The family cure for colds was to remove the outer skin of an onion. Then boil the peeled onion in milk. The onion was then eaten and the milk d... More ...

• Wasp sting

  3 out of 6 people report this seems to have worked for them.

  In the country people used onions to treat wasp stings.

  They would take a raw onion and place it directly on the wasp’s sting.

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• Deodorant

  1 out of 1 people report this seems to have worked for them.

  Plants have been used in families as deodorants. Onions can mask the smell of sweat. Family members would suggest the person with the problem wo... More ...

• treating boils

  7 out of 10 people report this seems to have worked for them.

  When we use to have boils our mother use to make an onion poultice. An onion was chopped and boiled until it was soft. Some bread was added to ... More ...

• worm problems

  3 out of 4 people report this seems to have worked for them.

  When members of the family had problems with internal worms, then they use to be made to eat raw onions every week

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• colds and sore throats

  Onions can be used to treat colds and coughs. This treatment use to be used by our family to treat sore throats. An onion was cut up and sprinkl... More ...

• painful earache

  5 out of 6 people report this seems to have worked for them.

  A family remedy for treating earaches was to take an onion. Cut the onion up into tiny pieces and wrap it in a cloth then apply to the ear and c... More ...

• chesty coughs

  3 out of 3 people report this seems to have worked for them.

  In our family when we had a chesty cough an onion was cut into quarters and put in dish by our pillow.

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• sore throat

  1 out of 1 people report this seems to have worked for them.

  The onion is peeled and slices are made through it (but it is still in one piece). Brown sugar is pushed into the sections and it is covered and... More ...

• Cold prevention

  When young we had to eat boiled onions as his was suppose to stop us from getting a cold.

  I now still use slices of raw onion and garl... More ...

• Chest infections

  4 out of 5 people report this seems to have worked for them.

  When I was a child and had a chest infection my mother use to fry onions and then rub them onto my chest

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• Treating a sore throat

  When a child and I had a sore throat I was made to wear a stocking round my neck. In the stocking was an onion, I cannot remember if it was boil... More ...

• to treat a cold

  When we had a cold we had an onion placed in a sock at the foot of our bed.

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• onions and colds

  1 out of 1 people report this seems to have worked for them.

  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 m... More ...

• Treating colds

  When we had a cold we put an onion in a sock, and put it in the bed with you,next to the warming pan. The smell of the onion would make your bre... More ...