Excellent medicinal properties of onion!
Posted on: 23/Jul/2014 3:29:08 PM
The name onion was given from the Latin word, ‘unio’, which means ‘large pearl’!
Onion’s medicinal properties are due to the fact that it contains the oil known as allyl-propyl-di-sulphide. This oil is the reason for the pungent smell and causing tears in the eyes while cutting. In this respect, both small & big onions have the same properties and give the same effects.
Onion contains protein, minerals, and vitamins. Hence it is nutritious for our health.
Several countries use onion as medicine. It occupied an important place even in the Indian traditional medicine.
Scientists greatly appreciate the powerful effects of onion.
How to use onion with
what effects?
- Peel off the outer skin of 4/5 onions and mix it with jaggery and take. It will reduce acidity and acidity-oriented burping.
- Mix equal quantities of onion juice and the juice from the leaves of ‘valarpattai’ plant. Apply the drops in the ear. This will reduce earache.
- Mix equal quantities of onion juice & mustard oil and heat for a few seconds. Apply drops of mild hot extract to the ears. The complaint of hearing booming noise in the ears will stop.
- Cut onion into small pieces. Take a small quantity of resin from red silk cotton tree and some broken block sugar pieces. Mix these ingredients in milk and take. This will control piles and piles-related problems..
- Onion’s odour has the property ro reduce some types of headaches. Fry onion in a little oil and take – this will reduce the excessive body heat especially in the intestines.
- Cook some onions in direct flame and add a pinch of turmeric and ghee and mix well. Heat this mixture lightly. Apply it on the boils or cysts in the body. They will ripen and burst open.
- Onion juice can cure some of types of stomach problems. Mix some onion juice in buttermilk & take. This will control cough.
- Mix onion juice in some hot water and use it for gargling. Take the onion juice in a cotton piece and apply it on the gums. Tooth pain & gum pain will get arrested.
- By taking cooked onions, the body heat level will get more uniform and balanced. The heat generated from piles will also reduce.
- Cooked onion mixed with honey & sugar cubes adds strength to the body.
- Cooked onion, when taken on an empty stomach, can reduce neuro-fatigue.
- Take fried onions mixed with honey in the night followed by a glass of milk, This will increase virility (manliness).
- Applying onion juice on skin rashes and skin marks can remove them.
- During sudden fainting, make the person smell some squeezed onion. It will remove the fainting sensation.
- A mixture of onion juice & honey or onion juicece & rose extract (kulkand) can cure diarrhea.
- Taking water mixed with a little onion juice can bring good sleep.
- Mix some chopped onion with the palm-tree fruit extract water and heat it mildly and drink. This will cure ‘mega noi’ (some type of skin disease).
- The same skin disease can be cured by taking a mixture of onion juice & the juice of flat-bean leaves in equal quantity.
- Onion contains low fat. So, obese persons can take onion liberally without any fear of gaining weight.
- Raw onions help to have a good sleep. Also, chopped raw onions mixed with honey can also be taken.
- Onion cleanses the small intestinal path and helps digestion cycle.
- Onion reduces blood pressure. It can also help recover lost energy.
- Chain-smokers can take half-an-ounce of onion juice thrice daily. His will cleanse the lungs.
- Applying a mixture of equal quantity of onion juice and mustard oil on joints will greatly reduce the pain in the joints.
- Rubbing onion cut pieces on the pimples can cure pimples problem.
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