Originally posted by unicorn1
This is good info if only because it can't harm to try

Exactly, and as the OP has responsibly said, it is not a recommendation to ignore other medication or treatment.

My bigest problem is at night, i am waking up with a sore throat that kill to swallow with. t this moment it is feeling loads better than it has done for the last week, so i'll leave a bowl of steaming onions next to my bed overnight and see how i feel tomorrow.

CX.

Yes to onions,
and
don't forget,
the,
garlic.

Just a side note here, now that we are talking about home remedies that WORK...for a severe cough at night that keeps you up...forget the cough remedies...rub VICS on the bottom of both feet, put on some warm socks and go to bed...you won't cough until morning. This is another one we use ALOT!

Onions can clear the lungs and sinuses by drinking the juice.
I make this once a week. It is a natural expectorant and keeps the sinuses moving -

Cut up two or three large onions - boil and then simmer for as long as you want -
Adding water if need be - add some cayenne pepper for good measure - and drink the juice. A couple tablespoons off and on during the day. And stand over the simmmering of them and breathe in the steam.
This has saved me more than once when getting coughs - etc.
(prepare for an onslaught of mucus draining)

I swear by it. Also a very good idea to freeze this and drink it as soup if you get sick.

When I was a child my mom made onion plasters -
There were three of us sick at the same time with serious heavy chest and head colds.
She fried onions in oil and while they were very hot put them inside of a cloth diaper and laid them on our chests. It broke up the congestion immediately. I remember as a kid always smelling like onions when I was sick.

Yeah onions!




[edit on 1-11-2009 by spinkyboo]

That reminds me, i have a couple of jars of Manuka honey sitting in the cupboard, tastes lovely as well as being good for you.

Still feeling clearer after the afternoon of onion inhaling, chest feels much better. I'm still feeling a bit weak, but i haven't eat much over the past few days so a good meal should help that.

Thanks for all the honey and onion tips, i'll try them all if it helps shift this.

CX.

OMG! Learn something everyday! I use garlic all the time, never thought of onion..S&F!!!



[edit on 1-11-2009 by AccessDenied]

Awesome thread OP! I really enjoy hearing about alternative medicinal cures for that which ails us. As others have said, modern medicine does have advantages as well, but a combination of natural cures with modern medicine may provide the best 1-2 punch out there!

This past week I had started showing signs of a sinus infection. I used to smoke years ago and for some reason in college I thought it was super cool to french-inhale clove cigarettes. French inhaling is when you let the smoke leave your mouth while you inhale through your nose. Looks cool and all that, but it roasted my sinuses because I have dealt with sinusitis every winter since then.

Anyway, this week I started getting the headaches and stuffy nose. Mornings I would wake up not being able to breathe at all through my nose but no discharge. All of the congestion was way up in the sinus. Then I would get a bloody kleenex when blowing my nose.

Instead of the usual medicines, I decided to try some natural remedies. Two days ago I started oil pulling in the mornings, and drinking a dilute mixture of apple cider vinegar and water throughout the day. The symptoms are slowly going away already!

Tonight when i make dinner I will boil up some onions as I have a few sitting in my fridge right now anyway. I'm willing to bet that the onion will be the final ingredient that will kick this sinusitis once and for all. I don't recall anything from the pharmacy working this quickly with so little side effect. Today the blood in the tissue is gone and all that comes out is clear. Headaches come and go but not nearly as much (or intense) and only come on during the evening. Woke up this morning being able to breathe through my nose too...

Also, something on the preventative side. Take zinc tablets during the flu season as it prevents viruses from finding their home in your nose eyes and mouth. Something to do with viruses being unable to bind with cells dna to reproduce.

[edit on 1-11-2009 by Fromabove]

S&F.

CX
Glade to hear you are feeling better.

How about we all post our onion remedy recipes?

Talking of Allicin, I've been taking concentrated Allicin for about a year. Do a google for Allicin by a company called Allicin International. Developed by Prof. Peter Joshling it's like eating 50 cloves of garlic per capsule.
Sorry to sound like an advert, it's just I swear by it now, I picked up a cold last Monday (got first signs Sunday night) by Friday I was totally over it and back to normal. And during the week I was still capable of working, maybe I'd have been over it quicker if I'd stayed home but that doesn't pay the bills.

EDIT: I'm going to ask my Mum about this, she grew up on a farm in
Ireland during the 30's. I bet she has some memories of this.



[edit on 1-11-2009 by Britman]

what a complete load of stinking crap this is.
if you believe breating in magical onion air is going to solve any of your health problems, you probably deserve the outcome you will receive.

Originally posted by STFUPPERCUTTER
what a complete load of stinking crap this is.
if you believe breating in magical onion air is going to solve any of your health problems, you probably deserve the outcome you will receive.

and you've come to this conclusion by years of personal research and trials with onions?????

Seriously, do some research before being so opinionated. You just make youself look bad.

I'll give the onion steam a try next time I get a cold. My maternal grandmother was Austrian. For head colds, which one of my sisters caught frequently, she would wash my sister's hair before bed and then send her to bed with wet hair. It worked every time. The next morning my sister's head cold was gone. Go figure.
And now that I think back on the days when I spent a lot of time with my grandmother, she served onions at every meal. Raw slices for breakfast, and either boiled or fried onions for dinner and supper.