Home remedies for ear infection - Ear Infection

The Chopped Onion (Allium cepa) Bag

Cut a middle-sized raw cooking onion into small pieces and stuff them into a small, thin, children cotton sock.
Warm it up (with a blow dryer) to body temperature.
Place a cotton wool swab on the aperture of the ear.
Fasten the warm onion bag to the painful ear with a woolen scarf or hat. (Use only natural materials, like cotton, wool, flax or silk.)
Leave the compress on about 30 minutes (depending on personal sensitivity) and use it 2-3 times a day (but always chop a new, fresh onion.)

As smelly as effective it is. It can cope with severe ear pain and beginning stages of middle ear infection.

Another good, but stinky option is:

Garlic (Allium sativa) Oil Drop
Put a drop of warm garlic oil e.g. from a capsule on a cotton wool swab and place it like a plug in the opening of the ear.
Leave it for 30-40 minutes in the ear and use it several times a day.
It can be as effective as onion bag and useful for outer ear canal infections and inflammations as well.
In case of itching, burning or any type of inconvenience remove the oily cotton wool immediately.
NEVER drop essential oil or raw garlic juice into the ear canal!!

You can make garlic warm infused oil by yourself:
Mince one large bulb fresh garlic and put in the top of a double boiler. Pour in enough olive oil to cover the garlic and warm gently for an hour. Cool, strain through a muslin or cheesecloth and keep in a sealed bottle in the fridge. But warm it in a spoon over a candle until it is comfortably warm if you use it for your ears. You can use it on your salads as well, it's delicious.