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Grandmother's Onion Socks

⏱ 5 min 🥄 1 night 3 ingredients
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Why it works: When a fever came on and the cabinet was bare, the old remedy was an onion sliced onto the soles of the feet overnight. It is strange, it is pure folklore, and grandmothers have sworn by it for generations.
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Ingredients

Steps

  1. Slice the onion into flat rounds about half an inch thick.

  2. Press one slice against the sole of each foot, right over the arch.

  3. Pull a thin sock over to hold the onion in place, then a thick sock over that.

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    The socks are the comfort ritual. The inside of my cold-season routine is oil of oregano, 2-3 drops in water at the first sign something is going around. This is the one in my cabinet.

    ✓Cold-pressed and high in carvacrol, the compound that does the actual work. A bottle of drops lasts months.

    This is the Oil of Oregano I recommend →

    ★ 4.6 · 1,100+ Amazon reviews

    Opens on Amazon · We may earn a commission at no cost to you

  4. Leave them on overnight and toss the onion in the morning.

Kitchen noteThis is a comfort tradition, not a treatment. A high fever, a fever in a baby, or one that will not break needs a doctor, not an onion.
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