Where does this news come from?
Baltic Health‘s video claiming that putting a chopped onion in your socks will help you get rid of troublesome cold symptoms overnight received almost 170,000 views on the social media platform Instagram (1). Baltic Health is an account that provides health advice based on natural products, without a clear medical background.
In their new video, Baltic Health shows one natural remedy for cold. You cut an onion and divide the pieces between 2 plastic bags that you tie around your legs.
- Make sure the pieces come in contact with the soles of your feet.
- Put on socks over that and go to sleep.
According to the video, the soles of the feet large poles and the active ingredients of the onion are absorbed into your body through these pores, clearing your nose afterwards. The next morning you would be free from your constant cold complaints.
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(1) Baltic Health. Instagram posts. 31 July 2024.
How should you interpret this news?
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There are pores opening of sebaceous and sweat glands in the surface of the skin. They do fat. This protects the skin against dehydration and also against sweat, to regulate body temperature.
- Taking pores there are no products left and do not allow substances to enter the body.
- Large pores are especially common on and around your nose and not on the soles of your feet.
Oops
A famous grandmother’s remedy for a cold cut an onion on the bedside table. This would blow your nose while you sleep release of volatile substances to which medicinal properties are attributed.
As chopped onion in plastic bags it’s a variation on that. It is still a mystery how the volatile compounds of onion can kill the cold viruses in your respiratory tract. That they are No do, a scientific study of health claims about onions shows: they are false (2). You won’t get rid of your cold faster.
Origin
Before the discovery of micro-organisms such as viruses and bacteria, people believed that unclean air was the cause of many diseases, including the common cold. This is why substances such as onions and garlic were used to purify the air and thus to prevent or cure diseases. Science has been outdated since that idea: it’s not unclean air, but viruses that cause colds.
Read more about how to reduce cold our patient guide.
Decision
The pungent substances released when you cut an onion are traditionally characterized by medicinal and air purifying properties. It is a grandmother’s remedy for colds. Research shows that onions will help you get rid of the sniffles faster. The video about this on social media is piecing together facts based on ancient superstitions.
References
(2) Teshika JD, Zakariyyah AM, Zaynab T, Zengin G, Rengasamy KR, Pandian SK, Fawzi MM. Traditional and modern uses of onion bulbs (Allium cepa L.): a systematic review. Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr 2018; 4:1-32.
2024-10-23 23:21:00
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