Useful properties of onions: contraindications, benefits and harms

Onion- a perennial plant reaching a height of up to 90 cm. A small bundle of the root system departs from the bottom of the bulb, which penetrates into the soil to a depth of 0.5 meters. The bulb turns out to be flattened or similar to a ball with yellow, red or white shells. The stem is thick, inflated below the middle, bearing up to 9 leaves at the base.

Useful vitamins found in onions

Due to the high content of such phytonutrients, onions are classified as biologically active ingredients, which helps in the treatment of many ailments of the body. The vitamins that are part of the onion have a beneficial effect on the body, regardless of which varieties were purchased. Use the plant in any form.

Onions have a pungent odor and a sharp specific taste; when peeled and cut, in some cases it leads to watery eyes. The presence of such characteristics is associated with the inclusion in the composition of the essential oil with a sulfur content in large quantities.

Phytoncides have a powerful effect on the body, providing antimicrobial, antiseptic, antiviral effects. One chopped onion is enough to destroy bacteria, fungi, infections, spores in the room. How exactly the onion works depends on which varieties were chosen for planting.

Root phytoncides tend to kill tuberculosis and diphtheria bacillus, have a negative effect on dysentery, streptococci and other pathogenic microscopic organisms.
The benefits of onions for the body are characterized by properties:

• antiviral;
• diuretic;
• restorative;
• antiviral;
• hematopoietic;
• tonic;
• antiseptic.

For men and women, as well as children, the use of onions is advisable for:

• Balancing the work of digestion and increased tone of the digestive tract.
• Strengthening the body's immune system. This is possible due to the fact that the plant contains beneficial vitamins and complexes that help restore the balance of beneficial microorganisms in men and women.
• Protection against flu, SARS, colds, cough onions also effectively help.
• Lowering blood pressure.
• Reduce high blood cholesterol levels.
• The benefits of onions are pronounced in heart diseases in men and women, as well as in the elimination of atherosclerosis, arrhythmias.
• Stimulation of appetite.
• Balancing libido and functions of the reproductive system.
• Decreases in blood and urine sugar levels.
• Removing the load from the central nervous system.
• Protection of body cells from the negative effects of radiation, for example, radioactive.
• The vitamins that the product contains are involved in cleansing the body of carcinogens and toxins.
• Oncology prevention.
• Sleep balancing for men.
• Onion helps with a cold.
• Prevention of hypovitaminosis, especially in winter. The vitamins that onions contain have the ability to replenish the required amount of useful substances inside the body.

Onion treatment, list of diseases:

1. rhinitis, runny nose;
2. angina;
3. avitaminosis of the body;
4. hypertension;
5. enteritis;
6. colitis in men;
7. persistent constipation;
8. decontamination of wounds;
9. elimination of skin diseases;
10. stimulation of sperm production;
11. increased potency in men;
12. vitamins have a general strengthening effect;
13. from a cold.

Onion is a unique product that has medicinal properties that help with many diseases in men, children and the female half of the population. Not bad helps with colds, as well as the prevention of viral diseases. The harm and contraindications of the plant are minimal, but there are places to be.

1. Allergic reaction. Grate a small onion, squeeze out the juice, pour a small spoonful of honey and lemon juice, mix. Take a decoction every day 2.5 hours after eating in the evening. Cut a fresh onion, make a hole and pour 1 small spoonful of flax oil into it, bake in the oven. Squeeze out the juice and serve hot.
2. Cold treatment. The healing properties of onions will show themselves in the form of a compress from the product. You need to grate the ingredient, squeeze the onion juice, soak a gauze bandage with it. Wrap a cloth around your neck and leave it all night, in the morning there will be no trace of a cold.
3. Elimination of atherosclerosis. Grate a large onion, cover with sugar, insist for 3 days. Use the decoction inside 1 spoon every 3 hours.
4. Treatment of bronchitis, suitable for colds. Pour a large spoonful of coltsfoot grass with boiled water, cool, add onion juice and its puree, mix and strain. The decoction is used on a spoon 3 times a day.
5. Onion is effective for a cold. Grind the ingredient on a grater, pour into a glass container and cover with a funnel. Put the structure on fire in the form of a water bath. Breathe in the outgoing steam. Effectively perform the procedure against colds.

Onion - folk recipes for treatment

onion inhalation are indicated for influenza, tonsillitis, tonsillitis, bronchitis, bronchopneumonia, lung abscesses, pulmonary tuberculosis, bronchiectasis, that is, for bacterial and viral bronchopulmonary diseases.

Onions are used for pustular skin diseases, trichomonas and bacterial colpitis.

Preparations from onions boiled in milk are prescribed for faster opening of boils, alleviating pain from hemorrhoidal bumps.

Onion gruel, applied in a gauze napkin to the wound, cleanses it of pus, reduces soreness and swelling and promotes its rapid healing and scarring, and applied to fresh burns prevents the formation of blisters, reduces skin irritation, stops pain and inflammation.

Onion gruel reduces itchy skin in itchy rashes.

Onion is an excellent detoxifier, immunomodulator, oncoprotector. The English traveler F. Chichester, who was suffering from cancer, was covered by a snow avalanche in the mountains and was forced to eat only onions and garlic. Upon his return from the expedition, a malignant tumor was not found.

Onions are used as an antidote (for scorpion stings).

Fresh onion stimulates the production of sperm, increases potency. The onion head, eaten in the evening, helps in the treatment of prostate adenoma.

Onions are useful for patients with primary and secondary amenorrhea, dimenorrhea, and various ovarian dysfunctions.

Onions have a positive effect on vision.

Eyesore treatment with onions: onion juice mixed with honey 1:1 is a good remedy for preventing the development of eyesores. You can also dilute the juice of one medium onion in a glass of boiled water and add 1 dessert spoon of honey. Bury 1-2 drops 2-3 times a day. The course of treatment is 2 weeks.

Treatment with onion juice. Onion juice helps to cope with toothache - you just need to massage the sore spot with a brush with juice. With urolithiasis, take 2 tbsp. spoons of onion juice several times a day. Onion juice mixed with honey is an excellent remedy for runny nose and colds.

Trichomonas colpitis. Put a freshly prepared onion gruel on gauze, tie it up and insert it into the vagina for 8-12 hours. Use for trichomonas inflammation of the vaginal mucosa. If the patient is hypersensitive to onions, swabs should be pre-moistened in a 10% infusion of calendula flowers.

Delayed menses. Husk 8 onions and 2 teaspoons of cloves (spice) pour 0.5 liters of water, cook in a sealed container for 10 minutes. Cool, strain. Take with a delay in menstruation, 150 ml 3 times a day before meals.

Fungal and pustular skin diseases - onion treatment

Onion juice, gruel, incompletely baked onions are used to treat fungal and pustular diseases.

Infected areas are smeared 2-3 times a day with a mixture of onion juice and natural bee honey. In the process of treatment, it is necessary to strictly observe hygiene requirements in order to exclude the possibility of re-infection with the fungus. Skin treatment is carried out for a long time, sometimes without interruption for several months.

Sprain - treat with onions

For sprains, a mixture of grated fresh or baked onion pulp and sugar (10: 1) is used. It should be applied to the damaged ligament for 5-6 hours, then the bandage should be changed.

Hepatitis

Rub 300 g of onion through a sieve, add 4 tbsp. tablespoons of dry herb powder of common chicory, 100 g of honey and 0.7 l of dry white grape wine, leave for 20 days in a dark, cool place, shaking occasionally. Take 1-2 tbsp. spoons 3 times a day before meals.

Take 10 leek plants, cut off the white part (with roots), chop it, pour 2 liters of red wine, leave for 10 days and drink 30 ml after meals.

Treatment of diabetes with onions

Treatment of diabetes with onions : mix vodka tinctures (1: 10) of onion - 150 g, walnut leaves - 60 g, cuff grass - 40 g. Take in case of diabetes in the morning and evening, 1 teaspoon 4 times a day before meals.

Finely chop a piece of onion, wrap it in gauze and put it in the ear, on the side opposite to the one where the diseased tooth is located.

Squeeze the juice from the onion, moisten a toothbrush or a washed finger in it and gently rub the gums in the area of ​​​​the diseased tooth. Repeat several times a day.

With a prolonged form of the disease, patients should eat up to 100 g of green onions every day.

Prostate hypertrophy.

Mix fresh onion juice with honey in a ratio of 1: 1 and take 1 tbsp. spoon 3 times a day before meals. The course of treatment is 1 month.

Parodontosis, dental caries - treatment with onions: pour 1 teaspoon of onion seeds with 0.5 liters of boiling water, insist overnight, wrap, strain. Rinse your mouth 3 times a day.

Acute and chronic cystitis: mix 300 g of chopped onion, 100 g of honey and 600 ml of white wine, leave for at least 2 days, stirring frequently, strain. Take 1 tbsp. spoon 3 times a day.

Angina. Treatment of angina with onions: 1-2 onions of medium size, cut each into several pieces and boil in 200-300 ml of water. Then insist the broth under the lid until cool. When the liquid has cooled to a pleasant warmth, gargle several times a day.

Mix freshly squeezed onion juice or onion gruel in half with honey. Take a mixture of 1 teaspoon every 2 hours until the condition is relieved.

Treatment of sinusitis with onions: mix 1 teaspoon of onion juice, cyclamen root juice, Kalanchoe juice, aloe juice, Vishnevsky ointment. Soak 2 cotton swabs in this composition, insert them into each nostril for 30 minutes. Do this daily. After 20 days of treatment, the maxillary sinuses will clear up.

Treatment of a runny nose with onions: finely chopped 3 cloves of garlic or a quarter of an onion pour 2 tbsp. tablespoons of vegetable oil, previously aged in a glass bowl for 30-40 minutes in a water bath and chilled, mix well, leave for 2 hours, strain and lubricate the nasal mucosa 2-3 times a day.

Finely crush 3-4 cloves of garlic, pour a glass of milk, boil, cool. Drink 1 teaspoon 3-4 times a day (adults 1 tablespoon).

Mix well 6-8 drops of garlic juice, 1 teaspoon of carrot juice and vegetable oil. Bury 2-3 drops in each nostril 5-6 times a day.

Put in the nose for 10-15 minutes 3-4 times a day cotton swabs moistened with onion juice, diluted with boiled water 1:1.

Treatment of bronchitis with onions.

Put 0.5 kg of peeled and finely chopped onion under the weight to drain the juice. Then add 0.5 kg of granulated sugar to the juice collected in a glass jar and leave the mixture prepared in this way for 2 weeks in the sun or in a warm place. Then take 1 tbsp daily before meals. spoon 1-2 times a day for 2-3 weeks.

Pass through a meat grinder 1 large onion, mix with 1 cup of honey. Take 3 times a day for 1 tbsp. spoon. There will be a lot of discharge - this is the body being cleansed. After taking 2 servings, the cough stops completely.

Grate 400 g of peeled onion, place it in an enamel bowl, pour 1 liter of water, add 0.5 cups of sugar and 1 tbsp. a spoonful of honey Simmer over low heat for 3 hours until the onion is fully cooked. Strain the resulting liquid and take for a long time 1 tbsp. spoon 3-4 times a day between attacks.

Trophic ulcers, wounds

Mix 1 tbsp. a spoonful of medium-sized onion gruel, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of dried crushed calendula flowers, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of dry chopped willow bark and pour 200 ml of boiling water, insist overnight, strain and mix in equal proportions with honey. Make ointment dressings (if there is no allergy to honey) for trophic ulcers and poorly healing wounds.

Abrasion, cut, prick, splinter, dissection, suppuration - onion treatment

Well cleanse wounds from pus, reduce pain, have an anti-inflammatory effect onions and carrots. Grate, mix vegetables in equal proportions and apply for 8-10 minutes.

For skin diseases, depending on the severity of the process, dressings with boiled and baked onions should be done 1-4 times a day.

Hair treatment with onions. Treatment of hair loss with onions.

Rub the head with the juice of the white part of the onion. After 2-3 hours, wash off with infusion of chamomile flowers. Procedures to do every other day for 25-30 days. If necessary, the treatment can be repeated.

Rub onion juice with cognac and a decoction of burdock roots into the head: for 1 part of cognac, take 4 parts of onion juice and 6 parts of a decoction of burdock roots.

Take 1 tbsp. a spoonful of onion gruel, castor oil, honey, 1 egg yolk and mix everything well. Rub the resulting mixture into the scalp, wrap and wash after 1-2 hours. Perform procedures as needed.

Baldness, dandruff. With baldness and dandruff - use onions.

Strengthens hair and promotes their growth a mixture of onions with honey. Mix the onion grated on a coarse grater with honey 4: 1, rub the resulting mixture into the roots of washed hair and tie them with a terry towel. After 30-40 minutes, rinse your hair with warm water without soap. If the hair is very dry and brittle, add a little warm olive, soybean or corn oil to the onion gruel and rub this mixture into the hair roots.

Rub onion juice into the scalp for a long time.

With dandruff, a few hours before washing, the scalp is lubricated with a mixture prepared from the following components: 1 tbsp. a spoonful of onion gruel, sunflower oil, honey, one egg yolk. During the week, do this procedure 2-3 times.

To improve growth, as with hair loss (see above), it is useful to rub onion juice with cognac and a decoction of burdock roots.

To strengthen the hair in a glass of water, boil 30-50 g of onion peel for 15-20 minutes, leave for 30 minutes, strain. Moisten clean, dry hair with a decoction and, without rubbing, dry in the air.

Take 1 cup of a mixture of oak bark and onion peel 1: 1, pour 1 liter of boiling water, keep on low heat for 1 hour, cool, strain, moisten your hair with it, tie your head with a plastic scarf or put on a bag, and on top - a warm scarf, keep 2 hours. Then wash your hair with warm water without soap and dry at room temperature.

What is useful onion peel?

You can use onions for medical purposes not only as a decoction, juice or puree. Onion peel actively helps to fight many diseases. It contains quercetin, an effective antioxidant and antihistamine.

The properties of onion peel show themselves when gargling during a sore throat, pharyngitis, as well as dental problems with teeth and gums. When using this product for rinsing gums and teeth, care must be taken not to stain the teeth yellow.

The decoction should not be too concentrated and dark, otherwise it will be disgusting, besides having such a color for several days, or even weeks, it will not be possible to remove it from the teeth.

Despite the beneficial properties and vitamins that make up the root crop, the plant also has its own contraindications. Onions are not suitable for everyone, since each person is unique and has his own characteristics of the body. The harm of the product is based on its use in its raw form.

Contraindications to the use of onions:

• gastritis, ulcer;
• asthma;
• kidney and liver diseases;
• breathing difficulties.

The use of a fresh product can cause the development of hypertension and heart problems. Inflicting such harm, the human body is seriously undermined, and it is difficult to restore it. Onion decoction in many cases does not harm the body, but has its own contraindications.

There is also an individual intolerance to the product. The use of onions, baked and cooked in moderation, is beneficial for almost everyone, such an ingredient is not harmful and contains the same vitamins.