Onion (Allium Cepa)

   Was cultivated 6000 years BC in the Nile Valley.The onion contains Na, K, Ca, P, Fe and small quantities of vitamins like A, B1, B2 and C.

   As a medicine it is recommended raw because through boiling it loses a large part of its main actions.

• Intern: the onion is an energizer. It is also useful for edemas, cirrhosis, pleurisy, and it has antiseptic features.
• Extern: it is an active remedy for stomatitis, aphtha as it has a powerful effect on staphylococcus.

Therapeutic features:

1. Excess of uric acid: leave overnight two crushed onions, until it is obtained a paste, in half a liter of boiled water. In the morning, filter and drink a cup of this product with some lemon juice and sweeten with honey.
2. Abcess, furuncle: for them to grow mellow apply on the swollen parts ripe onion and hold for 10-15 minutes. Repeat this 4-5 times a day.
3. Burns: for a slight burn apply on the wounded part a crushed onion mixed with a pinch of salt.
4. Diabetes: follow regular onion cures as it works on the pancreas. Consume raw or cooked onion at all 3 meals, daily, for a week. Repeat the cure every 3 months.
5. Diarrhea: boil 200 grams of onion leaves for 10 minutes in a liter of water. Consume half a liter of the obtained liquid daily.
6. Edema: pass through the rasp 300 grams of raw onion, then mix it with 400 grams of honey and 600 grams of white wine. Stir and take 2-4 spoonfuls a day.

7. Hemorrhoids: cut the onion in two and wash it, let it cool off and apply on the painful spot.
8. Cough, bronchitis: boil 3 cut in half onions for 8-10 minutes in half a liter of water. Filter and sweeten with honey, drink half a cup a day.
9. Against freckles: massage the face with apple vinegar in which a crushed onion was left to macerate for 4 hours. It can also be used onion juice mixed with warm water.