When my daughter was two years old, she would go into the pantry and bring me the bag of onions. That is how I knew she had an earache. The onions gave her relief, and she knew it.
Hot onions can relieve earache pain.
Chop onions and wrap them in gauze. Pinn the gauze closed, making a little sack. Heat the sack in a dry frying pan, making it as warm as possible, but still be tolerated against the skin. Use a headband or earmuffs to hold the sack over the affected ear. This works wonderfully most of the time.
This was taught to me by a wonderful old physician who had a deep understanding of homeopathy and European folk medicine. She explained that the sulfur in the onion was mildly antimicrobial and that the heat helped open the eustachian tubes.
Not a treatment for earache, but…
This is not a treatment plan or instruction to not see a doctor. But sometimes you can’t get to the doctor, and your child is in pain. Use the onions.
We were lucky; the onions worked so well that she never needed to rush to the doctor and she never needed antibiotics. Of course, it did not address the cause of the problem. When she got older, we found that she was extremely sensitive to gluten. Once off gluten, she stopped having the earaches.
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