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Onions are valuable vegetables for health. They have a lot of nutrition, regulate bodily fluids, are good for the kidneys, and more. Instead of dispatching them when they start sprouting, I put them in a container with a little water on my sill or kitchen counter and they’ll temporarily grow greens which are tender and mild.
If you hate onions in general, keep in mind there’s also sweeeet onions.
[Updated 3/4/21. My onion’s greens are still growing, but shortly I’ll cut them and put them with my food ]
More info on onions ~https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/onion-benefits#TOC_TITLE_HDR_2
If you hate onions in general, keep in mind there’s also sweeeet onions.
[Updated 3/4/21. My onion’s greens are still growing, but shortly I’ll cut them and put them with my food ]
More info on onions ~https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/onion-benefits#TOC_TITLE_HDR_2
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And you can make a great (though smelly! lol) cough syrup from them. You chop up an onion, and just cover it with honey. Let it sit for a minimum of an hour and you can start "skimming" off the more liquidy honey now. Cover in air-tight cover (I make mine in an old salsa or queso wide-mough jar). It lasts for 2 weeks or more, the honey will continue to draw the onion juice into the honey, so it will get thinner and thinner. You can add a little bit more honey, as long as the onion chunks/dices are still "thick" The honey has a number of anti-microbial properties and the onion has the anti-viral properties. So, for sore-throats from various things it works great. And unless you are diabetic (in which case it's probably not for you), you can use it more often than cough drops with menthol. It is smelly, though!
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SGT Tiffanie G. Thank your for the recipe! Good to have as an effective natural remedy. Didn't know it was real . . .
When I was very young Mom used to threaten to prepare onion syrup to stop me from coughing. It was probably while getting over a cold when she was tired of hearing the coughing. However I only remember being terrified because I could not stand onions as a child, so it worked like a charm! Use them frequently now . . . but still not raw, lol. In my world, anything they are good with raw they are better with sauted! Onions and Mushrooms tonight with dinner!
When I was very young Mom used to threaten to prepare onion syrup to stop me from coughing. It was probably while getting over a cold when she was tired of hearing the coughing. However I only remember being terrified because I could not stand onions as a child, so it worked like a charm! Use them frequently now . . . but still not raw, lol. In my world, anything they are good with raw they are better with sauted! Onions and Mushrooms tonight with dinner!
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Something great to use lightly sauted is..garlic! Got a head cold? Lightly saute smashed or chopped garlic in a little olive oil (can use avacado, coconut, etc). Let it cool a little, till it's just warm to the touch. Use a cotton ball or paper towel to rub it all over the bottoms of your feet. Then put on an old pair of socks. The oil will carry the important parts from the garlic that have been released by the heating into your body, and let it start doing its job, without having to eat it!
For ear aches - poke a hole in a garlic capsule and gently squeeze it in the ear and then put in a cotton ball. (it's even better if you put hydrogen peroxide (reg 3%) in the effected hear for 10 minutes and then drain before using the garlic capsule. Repeat as needed.
Another one for sore throats and coughs, is to wear a red shirt and/or a red scarf. Don't know why it works, will it will help to calm a cough and open the bronchials some.
I grew up with all this stuff, and used it on my kids.
For ear aches - poke a hole in a garlic capsule and gently squeeze it in the ear and then put in a cotton ball. (it's even better if you put hydrogen peroxide (reg 3%) in the effected hear for 10 minutes and then drain before using the garlic capsule. Repeat as needed.
Another one for sore throats and coughs, is to wear a red shirt and/or a red scarf. Don't know why it works, will it will help to calm a cough and open the bronchials some.
I grew up with all this stuff, and used it on my kids.
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SGT Tiffanie G. SGT Mary G. Fantastic ideas to try. The garlic on the bottom of feet, I knew about, never tried it. Seems neither I nor my children were sick much. I do remember when my daughter at 14 had something akin to bronchitis going on and as we didn’t have health insurance, I made her drink some yarrow tea. Nasty stuff, but it works!
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SGT Mary G.
CWO4 Terrence Clark - You know what you said, but I don't because it's not in Google translate!<smile>
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SGT Mary G. - Hmm . . . I actually replied on the post above this one, and it was there until I reloaded the page. Strange days . . .
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Shoot! And there I was thinking you had this, and I had wasted all my time in Izmir and Golchuk! :-)) BTW, that's "stop" and "go" on the pedestrian crossing signs. :-))
Shoot! And there I was thinking you had this, and I had wasted all my time in Izmir and Golchuk! :-)) BTW, that's "stop" and "go" on the pedestrian crossing signs. :-))
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