Also cut an onion into slices and place them in your socks and wear the socks before sleep.
Onion in room when sick.
The folk remedy to keep raw onions in the room when you are sick dates back to the 1500s according to the national onion association.
1 during the bubonic plague cut onions were placed around homes to keep people from contracting the deadly illness.
Onions contain sulfuric compounds that help to purify the blood liver and more.
According to the national onion association this onions are poisonous myth originates from several different sources including a folk belief from the 1919 influenza epidemic that claims cut onions left around the house will combat the flu virus and a 2008 blog post via dinner with zola that purports onions and potatoes cause more food poisoning than spoiled mayonnaise.
The onion is cut up and stood in an old tin plate.
Then you place it in the room where the sick child sleeps.
Whether you put an onion in your sock while you sleep to stimulate circulation and purify your blood or put it in your room to purify the air remove impurities and prevent flu or congestion you re doing your health a favor.
This practice reduces the bacteria in the air and prevents infections.
The onion is cut up and stood in an old tin plate.
Place them in four different corners of your room.
The onion draws the complaint into itself and when the child is better care must be.
The onion draws the complaint into itself and when the child is better care must be.
Then you place it in the room where the sick child sleeps.
You can remove the socks in the morning.
According to the folk remedy if you come down with a cold or the flu all you have to do is slice a red or white onion into rounds place them on the bottoms of your feet and put on a pair of.
Before scientists identified germs as being responsible for illness people believed that raw onions could purify the air in the room.
Sliced onions in a sick room absorb all the germs and prevent contagion there is of course no more scientific basis for the belief that onions absorb all the germs in a room than there is for the belief that onions rid the air of infectious poisons.
When placed against the skin of the foot and kept in a sock.
