Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Instructions
Things You'll Need:
- middle-sized cooking onion
- knife
- small thin cotton kid sock
- cotton wool
- woollen scarf
- hair-dryer
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Step 1
Cut a middle-sized raw cooking onion into small pieces and stuff them into a small, thin, children cotton sock.
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Step 2
Warm it up (with a blow dryer) to body temperature.
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Step 3
Place a cotton wool swab on the aperture of the ear.
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Step 4
Fasten the warm onion bag to the painful ear with a woolen scarf or hat. (Use only natural materials, like cotton, wool, flax or silk.)
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Step 5
Leave the compress on about 30 minutes (depending on personal sensitivity) and use it 2-3 times a day (but always chop a new, fresh onion.)
Comments
ScarlettOHairy said
on 12/31/2008 Interesting idea. I may give it a try. 5*s!
AbbyNormal said
on 5/25/2008 Good tip! Onions are excellent for several ailments!
nanomatrix said
on 12/11/2007 When I was a child and we were extremely poor my mother had to do something like this to get rid of an extreme ear infection I had, it worked, but I don't remember if she used onions or something else like salt or some kind of vegetable like drops... either way it was so bad I still remember that ear infection to this day, so this type of stuff can and does work... that said if you can go to a doctor try to... If you get a real bad ear infection you can loose your hearing...
JohanM said
on 5/18/2007 unconventional procedures...I like it, that way I don't have to take medication, yuck!