This healing onion
Recipes of beauty and health.
According to Egyptian mythology, the goddess of fertility, Isis gifted to an onion -
her favorite vegetables - many medicinal properties. We’ve got the onion at ours tables through the long way via China, India, Egypt, Europe…
So, how useful onion is?
First, it positively effects on digestion. Everyone knows onion has an unpleasant smell, but this is it the most valuable thing , these essential oils are harmful to many pathogenic and putrefactive bacteria. Therefore we should often eat an onion in salads, appetizers, first and second courses.
Onion used widely in folk medicine.
In case of atherosclerosis, sclerosis of cerebral vessels take a mixture of onion juice and honey (1:1) one tablespoon 3 times a day hour before meals or 2-3 hours after eating.
Onion juice and squash - an effective means to ulcers, long nonhealing wounds, dermatitis, itchy skin rash, acne, burns and even freckles.
If you suffer from boils or abscesses should impose on them the bandage with warm gruel of grilled onions or plaster with a mixture of: baked onion, gall soap (2:1). Bandage should be change several times a day.
Fresh onion juice is very useful for curing colds. Mix it with honey (1:1) and take 1 tablespoon 3-4 times a day. If you’ve got a sore throat, drink the juice to 1 teaspoon 3-4 times a day. You can cope with a cold, influenza by lubricating the nasal mucosa with fresh onion juice or inhaling through the nose for 2-3minut (it is especially effective in early stage of disease). If your child fills illness, you can put a cut onion in a saucer beside the bed when he falls asleep.
Baked onion can ease your cough.
Well helps baked onion cough. In case of acute cough take a glass vessel with a wide bottleneck fills it with a chopped onion and clog. Whole bottle coat with a dough and put in the oven. Once it will be crusted, turn off the oven, cool, then remove the dough and open the bottle. Adults can intake two tablespoons 3 - 4 times a day after meals. Medicine won’t damage in chronic gastritis, nor brings the pain and aggravation.
Remedy for coughing made out of onion and raisin. Take 50g raisin, place it in pottery jar and pour 200 ml boiling water, after then leave for half an hour. Chop the onion and squeeze juice. After 30 minutes merge the infusion of raisins, add the squeezed juice (3 tablespoons), and drink small sips at once, better before bedtime.
For those suffering from the high blood pressure it is useful to eat 1 - 2 onions daily. But remember: fresh onion juice is contraindicated if you’ve got a stomach disease (hyperacidity).
Onion peels, soaked for two weeks in the vinegar will vanish the callosity. Apply it with a layer of 2-3 mm at night (grease the skin around the blisters previously). At morning, bosh leg, you can easily scrape callosity.
Also onion strengthens hair. Take a few bulbs; smash them into the porridge, put a thin layer onto a head. Leave for a ten minutes, then carefully remove the pulp and rinse your head.