Onion
Although, in contrast to its " comrades " on the
vegetable-garden, the onion only only one time became fairytale hero (Chipollino),
but it is encountered frequently in the riddles and sayings. They eat this
vegetable already more than 4 thousand years, and so many they use it for the
treatment. For example, they smeared the
skin of face with its fresh juice for an improvement of color and in order to
give freshness.
As " universal medicine " onion is mentioned in the works of
Hippocrates, Dioskorid, Paracelsus. But in the times of crusades its glory was
so great, that they bartered prisoners for priceless onions!
Contemporary studies confirmed the healing properties of onion. It is
rich in essential oils, it contains vitamins (first of all C and B), iron,
potassium, calcium, magnesium, manganese, fluorine, phosphorus, sulfur (exactly
it answers for the sharp smell); flavonoids, which impede the formation of
cancerous cells and plant hormone (natural drug for lowering of sugar level in
the blood).
The juice of onion - this is the natural antibiotic, which protects from
colds. True, this " medicine "
gives very specific smell to respiration, but, they speak, you can get rid of
this trouble, having chewed the leaf of fresh parsley.
The use of fresh onion is contra-indicated with acute diseases of
gastrointestinal tract, kidneys and liver, its juice cannot be drunk with the
increased acidity. In the kitchen the onion
is used almost so frequently as salt, but do not forget, that therapeutic properties
catastrophically melt away during heating.
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