Food Remedies - Facts About Foods And Their Medicinal Uses

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in the ear is an old-fashioned remedy for earache.

Raw onions are a powerful antiseptic. They also attract disease germs to
themselves, and for this reason may be placed in a sickroom with
advantage. Needless to say, they should afterwards be burnt or buried.
Culpeper, the ancient herbalist, says that they "draw corruption unto
them." It is possibly for this reason that the Vedanta forbids them to
devout Hindoos.

Garlic possesses the same properties as the onion, but in a very much
stronger degree. Leeks are very much milder than the onion.


_Onion Juice._

The following prescription is excellent for sufferers from bronchitis or
coughs: Slice a Spanish onion; lay the slices in a basin and sprinkle