Onions are one of the few foods found in every home. It is crushed in the first and second courses, in salads and baked goods, added to barbecue marinades, etc. But few people know that ordinary onions have a lot of healing properties and will help to cope with many ailments.
At the first signs of an onset of the disease, we naturally go to the pharmacy, and we just need to take a couple of onions from a vegetable basket, which will help alleviate the condition and relieve the symptoms of the disease. The large amount of sulfur in the vegetable, which gives it its pungency, has excellent anti-inflammatory and antibacterial effects. Using onions will be an excellent alternative to homeopathic treatment.
In the treatment of what diseases will onions help?
For various problems with the nose, be it sinusitis, sinusitis or just a cold beginning, onions will become an indispensable tool in clearing the nose. To get rid of congestion, you can put a small slice on the sinuses and leave it there for 30-40 minutes, or you can grind the head, put it on a plate and breathe for 10 minutes, covered with a towel. The procedure, of course, is not pleasant, but by breathing two or three times, you can get rid of a chronic rhinitis. The only thing you need to ensure is that onion juice does not get on the mucous membrane of the eye.
Onions are an excellent prophylactic agent for influenza or SARS. To protect yourself and your family, you need to spread the peeled and chopped onions in those rooms where people spend the most time.
With a sudden onset of nausea, you should not rush to the first-aid kit in search of a suitable medicine, just take a large onion, cut it lengthwise and attach it to the armpits. The solution seems absurd, but this way of getting rid of nausea really works.
A regular onion can also help stop minor bleeding, such as from a sharp knife cut. Immediately after injury, you need to take a couple of onion slices, wrap them in gauze and attach them to the cut site, after a few minutes the blood will stop, and if you do this procedure regularly, healing will go much faster.
Few people know that onions have antifungal effects. If the feet, after wearing closed shoes for a long time, emit a specific unpleasant odor, then we can assume the presence of a fungus. Onions will help to cope with this ailment. To remove the fungus from the feet, it is enough to rub them with a peeled and cut onion for 10 minutes, then rinse the feet with cool or warm water. Repeating the procedure two to three times a day, you can get rid of the unpleasant odor in just a couple of days.
During the warmer months, when mosquitoes and other insects are most active, their bites cannot be avoided. To relieve itching and inflammation, you need to rub the bite with a half of an onion head.
As we already know, onions have powerful anti-inflammatory properties. To get rid of ear pain, you should not rush to get an expensive medicine, you just need to put a slice of onion in your sore ear, and after a while the pain will subside.
By the way, this procedure will help to cope with migraine headaches.
Medications to help treat skin rashes and blackheads are expensive. A great alternative to expensive creams is a crushed onion, funny with half a glass of honey. The resulting mixture must be heated over low heat until it resembles thick sour cream in consistency. After that, the mixture must be cooled, put into the refrigerator, and then used on problem areas of the skin, where regular rashes are observed.
If your hair has been weakened by cosmetic treatments like chemistry, curling, or dyeing, don't despair. The juice squeezed from an ordinary yellow bulb will help to strengthen the bulbs and eliminate hair loss, it must be rubbed before each shampooing. The smell of onions is easily washed out with shampoo, but after a few procedures, the hair will become smoother and shinier, plus there will be less and less of them on the comb.
Of course, huge scars after surgery or serious injuries are unlikely to be removed without surgery, but it is quite possible to reduce scars from cuts and scratches. To remove scars, rub them regularly with a fresh, halved onion.
