The phosphoric acid the substance that irritates our eyes while chopping onions present in onions helps in purifying the blood as it enters the blood vessels.
Onion in room at night.
Instead of irritating your airways like it does with your eyes it moistens them continuously throughout the night which curbs the cough.
During the bubonic plague cut onions were placed around homes to keep people from contracting the deadly illness.
As trisha wrote you need to use a fresh onion every night that you need to do this.
Placing a raw cut onion in contact with your foot overnight purifies your blood removes toxins and heals your body.
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.
January 14 2019 at 4 53 am im gonna try this tonite.
Sleeping with onions on your feet at night when you have a cold or cough is one of those old wive s tales that garners a great deal of interest and curiosity some of you might have tried it while others might have felt so baffled by the idea that you never even considered trying it out for real.
The onion draws the complaint into itself and when the child is better care must be taken to see that the onion is properly burnt.
In the morning the room will stink but just air it out and it won t last.
Articles that make such claims also mention that placing onions around the room will rid the air of viruses toxins and chemicals.
What the research says.
It comes with a number of benefits.
In the morning the room does stink of onion but it doesn t last.
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.
Then you place it in the room where the sick child sleeps.
You have nothing to lose by giving this onion and sock therapy a try.
Like so many questionable bits of scientific misinformation the.
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.
What s best is to place the cut onion on the night stand right besides your child s head as they re sleeping.
