Writing about garlic, we should not forget about onions since they are more useful than garlic.
Onions have been used as a food and medicine since ancient times. Our great healer Ibn Sina used this vegetable extensively and said about it: “Onions cleanse our body and remove harmful water from it.”
When onions are eaten in small amount, for example, in salads, they eliminate bad breath and increase appetite, and when eaten too much, they cause bad breath. Onion is a vasodilator, and interestingly, this effect manifests itself more quickly in the capillaries. Therefore, it is safe to say that onions are one of the best ways to increase skin nutrition. Onions are a cure for all skin diseases. People who eat onions do not have problems such as cellulite, boils, rashes, varicose veins, skin cracks.
Onions should be eaten a lot when one has late-healing furuncles (boils) and blind boils because the natural antibiotics in it cause the boil to mature and heal quickly.
Onions are useful for people with bronchial asthma because they dilate the bronchi and have an analgesic effect. Onions eaten with food prevents flatulence and constipation. Onion increases sexual desire; as it comes to women, its infusion is used in the treatment of menstrual disorders and infertility.
Cut 5-6 medium-sized unpeeled onions into slices, infuse them in a liter of water for 10 minutes like tea, filter and drink it during the day. During infertility, you can drink it for 3 months, then take a break of 15 days, and after that, repeat the process.
Onions contain vitamin C and glucocin regulating blood sugar levels, which is very useful for diabetics. White onions should be used for medicinal purposes.
In diseases such as influenza, antritis, frontitis, onion juice is squeezed and poured into the nose. When 1 crushed onion is mixed with half a teaspoon of baking soda and applied to the hair loss areas, new hairs appear. If there is inflammation, pain and noise in the ear, pour onion juice twice a day until it heals. Mix 50 grams of onion juice with 100 grams of honey, drink 3 tablespoons a day in small sips for angina and pharyngitis. When the eyes are often dry, especially when using a computer a lot, pour 2 drops of onion juice each eye.
Those who want to gain weight should eat onions fried in butter. In case of white spots on the skin, warts and hair loss, grind onion seeds into powder, and then mix with a small amount of oil and massage into hair, white spots and warts.
In case of joint pain (osteoarthritis, arthritis), the onion is sterilized in hot water for 5 minutes, finely chopped, placed on the joint, covered with a cotton cloth and kept for 6-7 hours, then cleaned. The treatment is carried out until the pain subsides. Prostate diseases do not occur in people who eat onions because onions increase the blood supply to the prostate gland. If you have fungus on your hands and feet, a handful of onion peel is boiled in 2 liters of water for 5 minutes, and then cooled, hands and feet are kept in this solution for half an hour a day, and if repeated for 2 weeks, the disease is cured.
To eliminate rashes on the face, the skin should be wiped with onion juice twice a day. Onions shed small kidney stones and prevent their recurrence. It accelerates blood circulation in the body, thereby relaxing the heart and reducing the risk of coronary heart disease. The blood pressure of those who eat onions is stable. The antimicrobial properties of vegetables make it useful in the treatment of rheumatism. It is also a worm repellent and prevents worm infections.
If a foreign substance has penetrated your skin and you have difficulty removing it, cook the onion over embers, cut it in half, lubricate your skin with olive oil and cover it with a cooked onion. Boiled onions are also used in the treatment of purulent wounds of the skin. When you have stomatitis and difficult to heal wounds in the mouth, chew the onion as much as you can in your mouth without trying to swallow; it accelerates their healing process.
If you have spots on your face, mix equal amounts of onion juice and honey twice a day and rub it on your face. Onions are rich in minerals such as potassium, calcium, iron and copper, so they are indispensable in the treatment of osteoporosis (bone loss). Onions also normalize the work of the heart muscle and increase the heart rate.
Both in modern medicine and in our religion, eating too much onion (for example, 2-3 at a time) is disliked and considered harmful. In acute gastrointestinal ulcers, onions should not be eaten raw, only cooked.
How to get rid of the smell of onions?
However, the widespread use of onions by the population is prevented by bad breath after eating onions. Because of this smell, many people are deprived of the benefits of onions.
But how should we eat onions so that they are both useful and odorless?
There is a very simple way to do this. First squeeze out the pomegranate juice. Then peel the onion. If the onion is small, do not cut it, but if it is big, cut it into half and throw into the pomegranate juice, and after 2-3 days, you can eat the onion in the pomegranate juice. It becomes very tasty and does not smell bad, and the benefits of onions remain the same.