SUPER EASY HOME CONGESTION REMEDY - FROM THE AMISH!

[@nerblebun]

I was raised by my Grandparents who were both born in the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) in 1899. Grandma knew every root, leaf, berry, bark, and plant found in the wild & concoct ointments, salves, tinctures, and teas for whatever ailed ya. She'd use a salve she made from crushed horseradish, crushed ginger root, crushed wild onions, and honey comb to rub on your chest, then cover with a warm towel for congestion. It always worked

[@cozetteoconnor1289]

I cured my late onset asthma diagnosis (age 22) with pickled red onions and garlic! I used a quick fridge pickle and ate it with everything. I’m 24 now, and haven’t used my inhaler (rescue or prevention) in over a year!

[@cozetteoconnor1289]

Red onions are Amazing For respiratory benefits!

[@makaylamarsh5868]

Do you have a recipie by chance?

[@thekingsdaughter4233]

Could you please tell more? :-)

[@nikkitobin8356]

Thank you for this info ... I have 3 children and a grandchild with asthma

[@nmr6988]

I have late set asthma as well. Looks like I'm going to be trying at least three home remedies today!

[@retamckeehan4935]

Just came home from the hospital for pneumonia. My chest is still congested, taking antibiotics, etc. I am so thankful to find this. Will try it ASAP!

[@Portia620]

This one lady said eat onions too!!!! A raw slice!

[@mariana7802]

Any update ? @reta

[@devorahrose782]

How did it serve you?

[@hknisley2000]

Me too. 5 days in hospital

[@doeharris5363]

I hope you get better soon take care.🙋🙋🙋🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@elissaward5519]

I learned that putting a slice of onion or chopped onion on the bottom of one’s feet immediately relieves nasal congestion. It is amazing. I could tell the difference in a minute. Put slice or chopped onion in a plastic grocery bag or an envelope made of cloth. Place your foot directly on the onion, wrap around top of foot, place sock on top of that. Go about your day as normal, walking on the onion.

[@AnnaLVajda]

Or you can sleep with them in your socks I had a neighbor do that when their girls were sick.

[@civil8bachelor264]

This woman is where it's at! Great job!

[@karenthompson9350]

Growing up if we had a cold with or without a cough, my mother would cut up a large yellow onion leaving on the skins and boil it in a pot of water. She would let it boil down until the liquid would look tea like. She would let it cool down so it could be drank and add a little honey. It would break up the congestion in no time. It works great! I still do it today and I am 62 years young.

[@x.3merald_gamer.x974]

Sure you are. God bless ya.

[@ashleymcdonald2239]

Thank you for sharing!!✝️🌍❤️

[@brendareed5050]

@Karen Thompson how much do you take in a day?

[@kaleidoscope8743]

That's amazing. I am going to try that. My mom made onion poultices for my sister who had tonsillitis a lot. Or mustard poultice. My mom also made potato-onion soup with white russet potatoes (small diced) and a Spanish onion (peeled and sliced or diced) and cooked down until the potatoes and onions were broken down and made a thick broth. I don't know if the potato had a medicinal component to it? Or maybe it was protecting the stomach? Or for flavor? I don't know why the potatoes. Mother fed us that if we had a cold. When we got into high school she just gave us raw slice of onion for a cold or sore throat. Seriously one slice of onion eaten raw, will stop a cold in its tracks! I eventually learned that onions are natural sulfur

[@Portia620]

Leaving the skin on?

[@bubbles2868]

My mum used to do something similar. The onion, (no salt) she used brown sugar to cover the onion and let the juices mingle overnight, then drink the juice , (no poultice,) sure cured whatever ailed you.

[@victoriacaldwell9285]

Thank you for this video. My kids now know I am not crazy with my home remedies. LOL My Mamaw taught me to do this and I have done it every time one of my family has chest congestion even works with breaking up bronchitis.

[@CGP21178]

Watching this video reminded me of my grandma in Mexico who cooked the onions and placed a towel on my chest and sat with me.

[@jjones4314]

When cutting up an onion, wet a paper towel & place it beside the cutting board to absorb fumes. Saw this done on another cooking channel & it seemed to work.

[@chadbugg3416]

What a wonderful channel! I just happened to discover you and I'm enjoying the home remedies so far!!! God Bless

[@ivorykeys1566]

CAROLYN THE REMEDY TO NOT CRY WHILE CUTTING ONIONS!! - HONEST IT REALLY WORKS!! WHEN CUTTING ANY ONION, DO NOT BEATHE THROUGH YOUR NOSE AT ALL! KEEP BEATHING THROUGH YOUR MOUTH THE WHOLE TIME... I watched Rachel Ray & she never cries when cutting an onion, and she was talking or kept her mouth open the entire time while cutting onion. I use that method all the time while cutting my very strong yellow onions now and my eyes NEVER tear up!! Remember!! You CANNOT even sniff through your nose... Try it and please come back and tell it on a special video for everyone. Thanks.. Btw.... I know most ppl sleep with their head raised but from my own personal experience I have noticed that if I have a chest congestion, the best way for me to sleep, is make sure my head is LOWER THAN my chest, wrap up your body really warm, actually getting to the point of breaking a sweat if possible, and keep a lined trash can near my bed, because the warmer I can get my body, causes the congestion to actually slide up toward my throat and I am able to hack it out quicker... works great !!

[@carolberridge6102]

Thank you! Love so many of your demonstrations. They are calm and cheerful and orderly---- and get efficiently to the point. I know what you are saying about certain onions being so acrid--- while I generally try to ameliorate the effects if I'm chopping a lot up, I also think they are good at drawing tears which might have a good effect of cleansing the eyes. Not a prolonged tearing, but a shortish bout of tears.....On another note: learned the salt pickling of lemons from another of your excellent demos...Adds such a great taste to so many meals. Thanks for that one too! And, finally, a lot of the posters below had some very helpful remarks.

[@eileenbrown3805]

I would have liked to see you demonstrate cooking the onions.

[@s38hyler]

My grandmother would take a onion and chop it up, and put in cast iron frying pan with lard and cook it until it was translucent and she let it cool off then she would smear it on our chest, I never knew if it was the smell or the onion but it worked. Onion chopped really fine on a bee sting too. Meat tenderize on Mosquito bites and jelly fish stings. I never heard of using salt with an onion but I guess you use what you have on hand.

[@sophiawish9772]

I saw a version of this in the movie "Where the Lilies Grow"

[@graymatters6155]

always light a candle right next to you when you cut onions and you won’t cry

[@73beetle19]

Don’t cry! We still love you!

[@kauigirl808]

Cold onions don't make you cry. Throw it in the fridge first. Or freezer

[@rhondagodwin1265]

If you are crying too hard just simply wash your hands and you stop the tears instantly. I always chop yellow onions beside my sink.

[@NeoPhoneix]

So there are no Amish communities where I am, yet my elderly friend ALWAYS insists I sniff onions when I'm feeling a bit off colour. She's part German so I'm wondering if its part of the folk lore from way back then. I prefer menthol myself.

[@mcmag888]

It’s not part of folklore it’s part of natural medicine, everything modern healthcare has developed came from something natural of the earth originally. Allopathic and homeopathic remedies work best when used together, not in argument against the others effect.

[@barbkostiw2823]

A wet cloth or paper towel on the counter beside the cutting board saves you from crying a river when slicing onions

[@scarlettbutler9662]

Try a slice of bread to avoid the crying. Toast and pop in mouth, while chopping onions. Greetings from Australia.

[@BobRooney290]

i'm not crying, your crying! whenever someone is crying in front of me, i start crying for no reason.

[@2Jeezuzisreal]

Great thanks

[@terismith5312]

Can you use red onion

[@judyluchies2492]

Thank you 😇🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@thanpovianaya6268]

I just got over having covid again my second round couple of days ago I got off quarantine but I have a lot of congestion

[@colemanadamson5943]

Wouldn't the oil act as a barrier to the poultice?

[@robinluich6626]

My thoughts Exactly

[@blesd4success]

So the point is that the onions make the patient cry and that helps loosen congestion? Cause I get more congested when I cry

[@ninisantrax]

I woke up congested due to a cold 🥶 maybe COVID although test was negative tried this and I can finally breathe through my nose 👃 I get so stuffed and unable to unclog this helps and of curse doing this 3x today. Can we just reheat the same water already in vinegar? Instead of trowing this out?

[@adamayahm5775]

keep a toohpick in your mouh while cuting

[@thehotmessmom3092]

The lady I did homecare for using twine to bine the package.

[@winsomewife7112]

Have a small fan blow air sideways across your onion cutting area.... NO MORE TEARS!!! Non-electric?..Kid waving a magazine would work. Or goggles.

[@jayelbee777]

How many times can you use the same batch of onion?

[@morganamarvel7075]

Same question ⁉️😎

[@rebeccamercer4160]

Do you use the same onions for the from and back and do you reheat?

[@IndranieCarr]

Do you have a natural vapor rub recipe?

[@cathylancaster6109]

If you put a wet paper towel near the cutting board you wont cry

[@singleplytech]

If you breath through your mouth when cutting an onion it's much less irritating.

[@donalddarbonne779]

I tried this in Atlanta, there's still congestion.

[@pennylaur7687]

Make a hot toddy. Put 1 shot of whiskey, 2 tablespoons of honey in a cup, add boiling water n a little lemon juice. Breathe the steam while sipping it 3x a day. Honey heals lungs, whiskey cuts phlem n helps sleep. Lemon makes it taste better. Can be used with or without lemon. Or simmer a broth of garlic and onion on the stove. Add some chicken boulion to taste and sip, same. Do both, see which you respond to best. Garlic, onion, and honey are great medicinals.

[@dharper9332]

So, basically like a mustard plaster? But keeping this on for a longer period of time?

[@dimplesalecha88]

What is the mustard plaster?

[@dharper9332]

@@dimplesalecha88 She does a vidio on Mustard Plasters as well go back into her vidios to find that. You use dry mustard instead of the onions and salt. Watch the vidio it will address all of your questions

[@ProverbsOne7]

The microwave changes the molecular comp of food. Don't use the microwave!

[@susannielsen8688]

What about using an old pillowcase to hold the poultice?

[@robinluich6626]

Great idea

[@trudybarton151]

Genius 👍

[@lorim.8136]

When I young my mom would put onion slices in my socks on the bottom of my feet when I was ready to crawl into bed for the night. It always worked like a charm. FYI make sure you go to the bathroom before you go to bed it’s awful trying to walk to the bathroom during the night 😆

[@mcmag888]

I do this all the time!! Yes it really does work to break a fever and kill flu & other strains. My kid hates it but he doesn’t stay sick long whenever I do it.

[@yolandadobbs882]

Onions have strong smell, did you go to school smelling like onions. Just asking because of the way , public schools are now and bullying is down right horrible.

[@CynthiaHunterNightwillow]

This is the remedy I found out about TY for sharing

[@utube0372]

🤣🧄🧅🦶🦶

[@jeannebentsen2794]

Stew some cloves for tea...add honey. That is guaranteed to demolish congestion. I did it when I had Covid.

[@loric1909]

Do you mean garlic cloves or the spice cloves?

[@Velsbasketcase]

Dont forget the natural quinine in grapefruit and citrus skins plus zinc from oysters and beef, stay safe!

[@mcmag888]

Yes and don’t let that pseudo expert lady from the channel rain country try to tell you that there isn’t quinine in grapefruits just because she can’t find any bias government backed peer review studies to support it without bias disinformation to push vaxeeens. Naturopathic studies have told us for centuries that we can find natural quinine in grapefruit, combined w zinc It’s incredible.

[@cindymichaud7111]

The skills & talents God gave us are for our benefit, to harness the power of the many gifts with which we are surrounded. Observing the effect of onions on the mucus membranes and putting it to use is smart and effective. The power of observation, adaptation, multiplying our blessings and more, are all gifts from a loving God. Amen. Thank you for sharing your gifts Carolyn. Prayers for you and your family.

[@AnnaLVajda]

God said for every ailment there is a cure in nature.

[@battleax4609]

Let the fruit be thy substance and the leaves be thy medicine

[@trenee2733]

Amen!

[@nicoleheppner4397]

Thanks for sharing! Our version of maybe less effective but simpler and similar! We just cut an onion in half and put it in the bedroom with the door shut. Fine for kids too. Learned this trick from my (Mennonite descent) husband.

[@scottrayhons2537]

This is what moms are about. Love all you moms out there taking care of your familys!

[@connectingseas7173]

What a lovely thing to say 🤗

[@SayedYasin]

And Dad's 😉👍

[@yarnycat_crochet]

My family would dice up an onion on a plate pour sugar on it and put a small bowl over the top making sure all the ingredients are under the bowl. Then they would sit it on top of the wood stove and syrup would seep out onto the plate and we would take a tablespoon or two of the syrup works like mucinex

[@ashleymcdonald2239]

Thank you for sharing!!✝️🌍❤️

[@debrawolf2264]

When I was lil, before microwaves were common in most homes; mom would fried onions into a huge mass and then do something very similar to what you show here. As a teen, I often chopped onions, put them in my socks, and slept. it would work my fever out and in the morning, my pillow's towel would be soaked with mucus and sweat. better out then in!

[@saravanroosbroeck5414]

My mum used to put cut up onions wrapped in a thin scarf around our neck when my brother or I had a cold. She tied it loosely and we slept with it for the night. Sometimes the scarf came off, but I just kept it close to me while falling asleep again. Worked very well too. (We're from Belgium, btw. I don't know if it's a big tradition here. It's just something she learned from her mum, as she did from hers, etc.)

[@mcmag888]

Yes that’s a old gypsy Roman trick, it works best on the sole of the foot inside a sock, soles absorb it into the body faster. You can also heat a slice of onion and roll it into a funnel to stick in your ear canal, it will siphon out an ear infection in a few min.

[@Maskawolf]

YES! Growing up we would get this done when we would be so sick. My dad would cook down onions in butter enough to make 2 large pouches, one for the chest and one for the middle of our backs. and it needed to be as hot as we could stand it! then we would have a large towel wrapped around our tourso to keep the pouches in place and we would sleep with this all night long. Smells really nasty by morning. It does work though, it would really clear up a lot of that congestion.

[@thialove2121]

Having the patient propped up with pillows made me smile- ya got it right- the lungs needing help WANT TO HANG, not lie down. So, propping up the patient, allows for the lungs to hang and breath easier- which is a big deal. First hand, my lungs said so: prop the patient up on pillows. This is a common sense much NEEDED channel 🙏many blessings HEALER family- your teaching skills are supreme 💥🧬.

[@novaricos]

yes, this is also why the common sitting position for asthma and chronic lung problems is sitting leaning forward with your elbows or arms resting on the thighs. It allows the chest to expand with minimal effort.

[@Portia620]

Thanks! I can’t use decongestants due to heart issues and had no idea!!!! We need old and new treatments for illness!

[@JesusLovingHomesteader]

Love this ! Also learned so much from the comments.

[@katekaplan8428]

Me too. Praise JESUS, our faithful friend, Savior and soon coming King! Love from a sister in CT!

[@JesusLovingHomesteader]

@@katekaplan8428 Hallelujah! God bless you sister

[@ashleymcdonald2239]

Amen.✝️🌍❤️

[@zoeazsss5035]

Been suffering w covid symptoms for over a month and still feel congestion, cough but nothing happens.., so thank you so much for this idea,, I tried it last night,, and believe it really helped.. Blessings to you and your family.. Would so love to live in that house :)

[@MaureenErrant]

Hubby's Dad is English and they would cut up an onion and simmer it in milk, and then drink it. It really does work. Onions/garlic are miracle foods.

[@aaronmcclain1279]

Growing up . My dad would cook a roast ether beef , or deer meat ( venison) . With onions and seasoning salt cook it down several times still the meat was tender. Then eat .

[@karenlyle322]

This is a great video 😀. Thank you Carolyn. Happy Easter 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻. He is risen ✝️

[@saucywench9122]

Dr. Barbara O'Neill out of Australia swears by how diverse the medical uses for onions are. Put some slices in a jar with a little honey and let it sit for at least 20 minutes for a cold and cough syrup.

[@Techy-fem]

Saucy Wench this is what we use(Spanish)

[@donnafalls6378]

I love to watch Barbara O'Neill. Very knowledgeable woman. You can tell she has studied the human body most if not all of her life. She talks about DNA. How to eat healthy.. I mean. the best diet you can eat for growing old and not suffer from any diseases. In each episode, she will talk about a certain health issue. Very good information.

[@donnafalls6378]

Also... a great "old" book is this....."Back To Eden" by Jethro Kloss. I keep buying this book every few years because his daughters keep updating it. (Jethro Kloss died many years ago so his family continues his legacy to good health)

[@sharlenenovak3042]

@@donnafalls6378 where do you watch these episodes by Dr. Barbara O’Neill? I’ve seen a few short videos on KZbin, where she has been speaking, and I love her teachings!

[@dogsaregreat3870]

Put this on a kitchen towel Then warm it up in a hot oven Camforated oil Eucalyptus oil Wrap warm towel around your neck Eat Chicken noodle soup or chicken broth with lots of black pepper in it

[@d.keeley8387]

Carolyn, Thank you so much……the Home Chest Congestion Onion Poultice has worked. I was starting to think I might need to go to ER…..because my symptoms seemed a lot like Bronchial pneumonia. However, found your KZbin and followed the recipe…..took two days but the congestion is almost completely cleared. My Sats are good and my pulse has gone way down. I will continue until things are completely clear.

[@sweetbeep]

I don't think there is anything called bronchial pneumonia. It's either bronchitis or pneumonia or both.

[@AMindInOverdrive]

Fun fact about boiling down onions: A friend of mine worked in a flavour factory which sold super-condensed flavors to companies. Essentially, according to him, they'd reduce down a whole shipping container load of onions to a bottle of onion flavouring. Once drop of it would be enough to add to an entire vat of product that the food company were making. But here's the most interesting part: He said it's so condensed that if you took a whiff (small) of it, it could kill you - extremely dangerous LOL

[@charlesperry9069]

Excellent I've tried some of these old fashion remedies it seems like in modern day times lot has been forgotten

[@chelseagarchar4338]

I think this is great 👍. My Great Grandparents came over from Czechoslovakia and I remember my great Grandmother talking about the power of onions for healing. She loved eating onions raw like you would an apple. When we have major sickness in our house we will chop a few onions in half and place them around the house. In the main living and sleeping spaces. I think it helps a little bit. I will have to remember to try a poultice next time.

[@Muslimah393]

I do this as well. It does work 🙂

[@jenette16]

You like raw onion...have you tried the Walla Walla Sweet onions? Grandma loved onion and mayo sandwiches, gave her a Walla Wall sweet, she was in love. Seasonal and, of course, they come from Walla Walla Washington. Something special about the dirt I hear.

[@CynthiaHunterNightwillow]

Onions absorb whatever is in the air. If it's bad air the onion turns black because it's pulled out nasty bugs that makes us sick. Just have to remember to throw it out

[@Ourlittlehomesteadlife]

I am notorious for crying so bad I can barely open my eyes while chopping onions... BUT someone recently told me if you don't cut the root end off until the end, you will not cry. IT REALLY WORKS!! I was amazed! Just a little tip. Love your home remedies!! Thank you so much for sharing!!

[@meciarenee8857]

I put mine in the crisper drawer and that keeps them from from burning my eyes also

[@l.plzsavethebeez485]

Wear goggles!

[@lorenawolfman9333]

Also putting a wooden match with white tip in your mouth as you chop is great!

[@nmr6988]

Thank you for this knowledge! I will never cut the root end off until the last moment again!

[@conservativesheildmaiden5186]

You can also put a wet paper towel next to you while chopping. It absorbs what is in the onion that makes us tear so much

[@freemandavis4796]

My Mother made a reusable pack and called it a Granny rag. I spent many nights wearing it. Enjoyed the video. Smashed that like button, subscribed and all notifications. Blessed Be 🙏

[@Fixaflatbabypillow]

My 13 yr old was coming down with a cold and cough and I tried your mustard poultice. He slept thro the night without coughing once! Thanks!! I sell mustard seed baby pillows - an Indian tradition that prevents and remedies flat spots in infants. One of the reason mustard seeds are used(other than coz they are so tiny and make the pillow so pliable) is that it is supposed to help with congestion....I didn't connect the dots till yesterday. Maybe sleeping on the mustard seed pillow releases tiny doses of the spice? Anyway, thank you for sharing your remedies with us! And sorry for posting twice, I have been binge watching your channel and commented on the wrong video:) God bless you for the work you do!

[@dburd58]

For our babies with colic we boiled onion slice in a little water gave baby a couple drops of liquid and let the burping begin.

[@sweetbeep]

That last couple of words made me lol

[@mamapillow8365]

A dollar store mesh laundry bag can work to hold a poultice too.

[@saucywench9122]

I forgot something, I just found out about a new plant ally to grow, gynostemma. How I've never heard about this plant before today I have no idea. Start growing this little lady as soon as possible. VitaJing just did another video about it and included study links in the description. It's an invasive perrineal plant from Tibet and China but it's been Americanized and grows here just fine. You can make a tea from it fresh or dried and it's leaves are more powerful than the ginseng root, no joke. It's one of those awesome plants that is such a giver evidently. What caught my attention was how adaptive for your system it is. Our bodies evidently use it for almost all major functions and it won't create a cytokine storm like elderberry when working with the immune system. It's used most frequently with cancer patients.

[@StormyNight777]

I had asthma really bad as a child and would go into pneumonia. My mom would make something similar to this. I think she added some flour to hold it together better, but not sure. She would put me to bed, give me some awful tasting hot drink, put this on my chest and covered me with quilts to sweat it out. It worked. It would break up congestion and I would feel much better by the end of the day.

[@Almosthomeforever]

Would love to know the drink. Wonderful mother!

[@followhimhome]

This is how my grandmother and her sisters would treat my uncle’s chest congestion when they were growing up.

[@rayphil9641]

The cure for congestion Jalapeno pepper in anything,

[@melissasmith9440]

My aunt would cut an onion in half, sit it in a bowl with 2 tbsps of sugar on top, it would make a cough syrup.

[@joannedibiase2427]

Melissa, I got this very same recipe from a German nun when my children were small many years ago. 😊

[@larrywalker3137]

I love your recipe but I'd like to see put an edge on that knife

[@mem3769]

When our 1 year old son had a persistent fever, my husband who is from S. Carolina suggested putting onions on him. So we cut some onions, out them on his bare chest and abdomen and wrapped him in a hand towel. We checked him a few hours later and he was cool where the onions were, but hot everywhere else. When we took the onions off he immediately got feverish all over again. We ended up taking him to the hospital ER. Turns out he had an ear infection.

[@brendabollig6856]

Thanks for the tip ***if you set a glass of water next to your cutting board while you chop onions it helps with the fumes so you don't cry.

[@Dawghome]

4:28, I was told by someone that I might have 'long covid', and when I cough I oftentimes sound like I've got croup, so it feels tight in my chest and am trying to use stuff people recommend, one I've found that seems to help is flu meds containing Guafenesin and usually about an hour or so later I try to cough as it's begun to loosen a bit, I always thank my lungs because I'm grateful they are trying to clear this problem with me. But when I get sick, 9 times out of 10 it goes straight to my chest!! It can be quite depressing! Thanks to everyone here for sharing their families remedies as well, this is all good info.😁👍💝

[@charlesfredrick4789]

You could try Mullen tea, put the Mullen in a quart mason jar. Pour in the boiling water and let it sit for 4 hours. Make sure you strain it through fine filter. Or piece of cheese cloth. What you don't drink that day refrigerate. It'll last a couple days. Best wishes hope this helps.

[@sweetbeep]

​@@charlesfredrick4789why four hours? Won't an hour do?

[@sweetbeep]

My sickness goes to my chest too and I can't stand it. I heard that oil of oregano helps.

[@charlesfredrick4789]

@@sweetbeep you know , it's odd that I gave that particular method of making Mullen tea. It is not necessary to let it Brew for 4 hours. Although you certainly could. Now I Brew it in one cup for 10 minutes or so. Then strain it into another cup. But you can use a teapot. The most important thing with Mullen, is to use a very fine filter to strain it, and normally I do not drink the tiny bit from the bottom of the cup. Once it has settled. I hope this helps do you feel better.

[@sweetbeep]

@@charlesfredrick4789 thanks. Last night I slept with onions on the bottom of my foot and it helped. But I am interested in mullein as well and someone on FB said they use it for their pulmonary fibrosis, which is usually a deadly condition. Do you get your mullein from the health food store?

[@Mrs.Patriot]

Carolyn, if you refrigerate onions before cutting them they won't make you cry! Or put in the freezer for 15-20 min if you're short on time. ❤

[@TRuth.T]

I live by Old Order Amish and go into the home of Swartzentruber Amish 2xs a week. They do things differently, then my mind can understand(I don't understand their ways). I am sure they wouldn't think of this as " natural remedies" , not witchcraft. Some even have rings/slices of onions above some of their door frames ;)

[@belindahussey6275]

Hold a half piece of bread hanging out of your mouth when cutting strong onions. The bread helps as a filter between onion and nose.

[@AllenBarclayAllen]

Anglican here , Sr. William Thompson The third 1634 first Massachusetts Bay colloney fifth generation grandson my Barclay peeople were Quaker .. FOR pneumocystis pneumonia congestion ? WHY THATS AMASING FOR A POLTIS. ! Most congestion when it starts with a sore throat I use ginger root powder on the top of my tongue and hold it to the roof of my mouth for 5 minutes . Works great I guess the starting cold . but would be defenceless against pneumocystis pneumonia water on the lungs . I use Noni juice to stop that but who could find Noni juice during William Thompson's time and your Amish ancestors TIME. Who could find it ???..NO ONE ..! THAMKS ..!

[@annalivings6660]

If you place a moist paper towel close to you before chopping the onion it will help prevent the crying. I was informed to put chopped onions in a ziplock bag, place it over the feet, and close it up over the ankles. Use this while sleeping.

[@patriciaworkman7893]

Never heard of using onions, but my mom and grandma use to rub vicks vapor rub on our chests and immediately wash it off come morning, as they didn't want us to end up with pneumonia.

[@SANNAsewglam]

I cut up an onion and left it in a bowl on the counter or next to my bed to purify the air from coughing. I've heard that onions absorb bacteria. My sons cough never got worse. Now on to helping my parents.

[@DellTewahdo]

Microwave might kill the healing nutrients in the onion?

[@elizabethbowman4188]

My mom used to do this and it works, I am allergic to Vicks vapor rub.

[@mmarie7645]

I've heard this too from my time in Europe. Also egg white on the bottom of the feet reduces fever when it needs to come down. I've tried it skeptically and it worked!

[@civil8bachelor264]

Lavender oil on the bottom of feet and back of neck for fever! I swear has saved my children!

[@terrymoore565]

Never saw a onion butchered like you did...

[@laerkihitz3154]

Could you use caster oil instead of olive oil?

[@VickieShepherd]

My mom told me several times about grandma making onion plasters for her chest when she was sick. When they cooled down she ate the onions out of them lol. She never made one for us when we were sick though.

[@70foolio]

My grandma would use this method too and sometimes add garlic. Sometimes just add a wash cloth to the warm onion water, ring out and add to chest. Just keep water warm. Whoowee no one will be around you for a couple of hours after the onion treatment.

[@kelliepalm6824]

Can you reuse the same batch for the back if treating front then back in the same day or should a fresh batch be prepared for each treatment? Thank you!

[@YeshuaKingMessiah]

Sure I would reuse it!

[@kauigirl808]

This is great for pneumonia.

[@patricik3adykohollandswort668]

Love it! Puts me in mind of the asifidita (don't know if that's the correct spelling) my mother had in our medicine cabinet when I was very young.

[@debiscaramella7300]

My grandma would heat up milk and onions together then take out the onions, the onion would help with congestion/cough and the milk would help you sleep.

[@suzannearguelles5019]

Would you drink this ?

[@kauigirl808]

@@suzannearguelles5019 hope not. Milk makes it worse for phlegm.

[@doeharris5363]

What an amazing remedy l will certainly try this as l have a cold for over 6 weeks now and nothing is working. Thank you so much for sharing your video. 🙋🙋🙋🙋🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@Mickey-jn8hz]

You can make yourself a small pillow case to put your onions in. Sew it with a flap so that the onions won’t fall off. I am making one for my family.

[@carbonc6065]

This video could've been made in 33 seconds as opposed to 8:30.