🔹Description🔹
Biennial plant up to 1 meter; semi-cylindrical leaves that grow from an underground bulb with shallow roots. Erect stem, which has an umbel of white or pink flowers at its end.
🔹Medicinal properties🔹
🔸Internal use🔸
Fludifies blood circulation and acts against arteriosclerosis, cholesterol, hypertension, angina pectoris and others related to poor circulation such as hemorrhoids, hearing loss, etc. Macerate 300 grams of onion in a liter of water for 12 hours. Take three glasses a day.
It favors the feeding of body fluids. 3 glasses per day of the maceration of 50 grams of crushed onion in a liter of wine.
It is one of the best natural remedies to combat infectious processes of the respiratory system (flu, bronchitis, pharyngitis, etc.) and digestive. Onion syrup: decoction for an hour of the same amount of onion as water. To the resulting preparation, 1/5 part of honey and 1/3 of sugar are added. Stir until it has a good consistency and drink three cups a day. Onion steam in boiling water. The onion mixed with honey in equal parts clears the voice and solves the problem of hoarseness. Drink 3 tablespoons daily of the juice of the onion mixture with honey.
Recent studies seem to associate the consumption of onion with the inhibition of cancer. Onion juice has been used as a remedy to slow down hearing loss. Introduce a few drops through the ear.
🔸External use🔸
Good disinfectant against animal bites or stings, especially insects. Wet the affected area with the liquid from a fresh crushed onion. Warts can be eliminated if we apply a plaster two or three times daily with the juice of an onion crushed in vinegar. In addition to stimulating the hair follicle, sulfur eliminates dandruff and helps preserve hair. Perform daily frictions of the spring onion juice. To eliminate itching, very common in the presence of chilblains. Rub a raw onion over the chilblains.
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