onions

 onions

Almost counting exceeds what onions can do as food and medicine, in various countries of the world, and in various stages of history, we see that onions occupy a position almost envied by other foods.

And it reached from the interest of the pharaohs in onions, and their dependence on it, that they used to swear by it. They had a rank close to sanctification, and was mentioned a lot in the writings they left on papyrus papers and temple walls, and they used to place it with the mummified bodies in order to alert them and help them to resume breathing when they were resurrected alive, and their doctors mentioned many of the recipes in which they recommended relying on onions. They used to put it at the entrance to the snake's burrow to prevent it from leaving, and from the word "temple" that the pharaohs used to call this plant, I took the word, "onion" that we use now.

And in the Greeks, onions had the same status. Their doctors talked about onions a lot, and described them in many cases.

Modern medicine has proven the validity of what the ancient doctors said, and even new and wide-ranging benefits and properties were discovered that were not identified by ancient doctors.

The Russian researcher "P. Tokin" conducted extensive studies on one hundred and fifty varieties of germicidal plants, and it became clear to him that onions are at the forefront of those plants, and he confirmed that it has a clear effect in killing typhus germs. And an experiment conducted by Drs "Vila Nova" and "Todesnev" from the Russian University of Tomsk proved that the fumes from onions are capable of killing harmful bacteria, especially in contaminated wounds, and another experiment by some researchers of the experimental station in Michigan, USA, proved that adding onion juice to The parasitic weed killer makes it stronger.

 The truth is that everything mentioned is true and even less than the truth. Onions have very many benefits that make them more nutritious than apples. They contain twenty times more calcium than apples, and phosphorus twice as much, and iron and vitamin A three times as much. in it.

 In addition, onions contain sulfur, vitamin (C) and a substance (glukonin), which is equivalent to insulin in terms of its effect in determining blood sugar levels. It also contains substances that affect the heart and blood circulation, and other diuretics and bile, and laxatives and tonic for the nerves. A hormone that fuels sexual ability, and other materials and abilities, science is still discovering more of them over time.

Onions are considered a plant of the mercury family, and its containment of the yeasts "oxidase and diastase" is what gives it the property of diuresis. It also makes it useful in cases of liver cirrhosis, ascites, swelling of the legs, flatulence, some heart diseases, and pleurisy, but these yeasts dissolve and disappear with the effect of Heat, so you must eat onions raw to take advantage of them. If it is to be cooked, it should be over low heat.

Fresh onion extract has been shown to kill germs that colonize the mouth and intestines. It also benefits people with cardiovascular lesions "angina" and atherosclerosis. And since onions do not contain starch, diabetics can eat them without warning, and even take advantage of the ability of the "cloconin" substance in it to determine blood sugar levels. Perhaps the popular belief in the benefits and benefits of onions is their most frequent meal, especially with fava beans. Acting very well, a meal consisting of varieties of meat and fats, and even better than it, because it does not leave the body with toxins from fatty substances.

It has been shown that onions have a high healing power in case of prostate enlargement and the severity of its symptoms. Giving raw onions has also shown that patients with viral infection get rid of going to the toilets every five minutes once.

 But people are accustomed to being averse to eating onions, or to be economical in eating them raw, due to the unpleasant smell that it emits with the breath of one who eats it, and therefore science has reached more than one solution to this problem, preserving the medicinal and nutritional status of onions, it has made a concentrated extract that contains all the elements Active in onions, give half a spoonful in half a cup of sugar-sweetened water once before lunch, and another before bed. If magnesium salts were added to this onion extract, the effect was stronger and more severe, especially in cases of prostate diseases, kidneys, and mild septicemia.

 And another method was devised to get rid of the smell of onions, depending on the special "vegetable green" "chlorophyll" in absorbing odors, because pills containing concentrated chlorophyll extract were made, in which one could take one pill every eight hours, thus eliminating the smell of onions, garlic, or Other unpleasant odors.