During the bubonic plague cut onions were placed around homes to keep people from contracting the deadly illness.
Cut onion in room when sick.
You can remove the socks in the morning.
This remedy may originate back to as early as the 1500s according to the national onion association when it was widely believed that placing raw cut up onion around your home could protect you.
The onion draws the complaint into itself and when the child is better care must be.
There have been many other versions of this story claiming that leaving onions around a room will absorb the flu virus along with bacteria causing other illnesses and will prevent people from.
This practice reduces the bacteria in the air and prevents infections.
Then you place it in the room where the sick child sleeps.
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.
Place them in four different corners of your room.
Also cut an onion into slices and place them in your socks and wear the socks before sleep.
I do my best to include fresh onions in my salad each day to get all of the benefits internally.
Applying the onion topically on the bottom of the feet while sleeping bruises for healing as an antiseptic or just leaving the cut up onion in your bedroom or any room has a host of benefits as well.
Then you place it in the room where the sick child sleeps.
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 viruses and bacteria can become airborne via droplets of saliva or mucus when people cough.
The message saying cut onions become toxic is a hoax left over cut onions are not poisonous they are safe to use when stored in hygienic conditions.
Rumor claims bacteria on cut onions and potatoes cause more food poisoning than spoiled mayonnaise.