Home Remedies or Old Wife’s Tales?
Diarrhea in babies and young children. Many years ago when myneighborhood was filled with young families lets say the flu broke out. A woman down the street with 5 children told me this one. Boil the water and everything the baby drinks. Well it worked for my young one. Boiling water, milk, all fluids seems to stop diarrhea. Deanna, Oregon USA
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Left Over Onions are Poisonous: In 1919 when the flu killed 40 million people there was this Doctor that visited the many farmers to see if he could help them combat the flu… Many of the farmers and their families had contracted it and many died.
The doctor came upon this one farmer and to his surprise, everyone was very healthy. When the doctor asked what the farmer was doing that was different the wife replied that she had placed an unpeeled onion in a dish in the rooms of the home, (probably only two rooms back then). The doctor couldn’t believe it and asked if he could have one of the onions and place it under the microscope. She gave him one and when he did this, he did find the flu virus in the onion. It obviously absorbed the bacteria, therefore, keeping the family healthy.
A hair dresser, several years ago had employees coming down with the flu and so were many of her customers. The next year she placed several bowls with onions around in her shop. To her surpirse, none of her staff got sick.
A person in Oregon was very ill who came across an article that said to cut both ends off an onion and put it into an empty jar and place the jar next to the sick patient at night. It said the onion would be black in the morning from the germs. sure enough it happened and just like that … the onion was a mess and the person began to feel better.
Onions are a huge magnet for bacteria, especially uncooked onions. Never keep a portion of a sliced onion. It’s not even safe if you put it in a zip-lock bag and put it in your refrigerator. It’s already contaminated enough just by being cut open and out for a bit, that it can be a danger to you. Both the onions and the moist potato in a potato salad, will attract and grow bacteria faster than any commercial mayonnaise and will even begin to break down. Also, dogs should never eat onions. Their stomachs cannot metabolize onions. From Ben, Oregon USA
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