Mrs. Child on Insect Bites

A raw onion is an excellent remedy for the STING OF A WASP.

—from The American Frugal Housewife
by Lydia Maria Child

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Comments

1. 

   Jennie C. says:

   I’d been told that when we lived in Germany. That’s what the German women do when their children get stung…rub a raw onion, cut in half, along the sting. Apparently it takes the stinger out, as well as alleviating the pain, but I don’t know how it would.

   On May 12, 2006 at 4:32 am

2. 

   Dawn says:

   Well, I’ll be adding onions to the market list for tomorrow ~ we seem to have a bit of a wasp issue in our backyard … Thanks for the tip, Lissa!

   On May 12, 2006 at 5:52 am