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Make an onion poultice - PEP BB medicine.sand.poulticeonion

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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEP curriculum.  Completing this BB is part of getting the sand badge in Natural Medicine.

For this BB, you will create a poultice using onion you harvested.

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  - Create a poultice
  - Use onion

To document completion of the BB, provide proof of the following as pictures or a video (< 2 minutes):
  - Harvested plant material (either being harvested or just harvested)
  - Plant material in mid-preparation
  - Finished poultice on a body or in a labeled container
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I used a raw onion poultice on a fresh wasp sting. The freshest onions I have are from a stand of perennial onions so that's what I used. I chopped them up and put them on a fresh flour sack towel along with a little apple cider vinegar. Then I used the towel to wrap the poultice around my ankle covering the sting.

Here are a couple of sources on using raw onion and apple cider vinegar on wasp stings: https://www.motherearthnews.com/natural-health/natural-remedy-for-insect-stings-zmaz00onzgoe/

https://www.healthline.com/health/wasp-sting#treatment

The sulfur in the onion and acid in the vinegar helps neutralize the alkaline wasp venom.
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Note: After chopping the onion if you crush the whole bundle with a rolling pin you will release more juices.  I'm curious about how well it worked.

 
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Follow up: the poultice helped in that I never got itchy. The sting felt like a deep bruise for a couple of days. I got a histamine response though so I had to take an OTC anti-histamine a couple of days later. It probably would have been much worse without the poultice.

We think it was a cricket hunter wasp that got me. The wasp and I probably surprised each other because they aren't supposed to be aggressive. https://citybugs.tamu.edu/factsheets/household/misc-house/ent-2009/

“Praise be to you, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, and who produces various fruit with colored flowers and herbs” St. Francis of Assisi

 
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Elizabeth Horsley wrote:I used a raw onion poultice on a fresh wasp sting.



I was just asking yesterday what to do about a wasp sting and now I see this! A day too late.
Kiddo who got stung seems to be fine though :)
 
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Onion poultice for congestion. Used a simple recipe from Mother Earth News magazine.
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I heard onion poultices can help with warts! And someone I love has a big one on the ball of their foot. A tricky place for a wart. So I dug up some walking onions!! I smashed them with a meat tenderizer and used a bandaid and wrap to apply them to the foot. Can't wait to see if it works!
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