Onion - Benefits in Home Based Remedies
Onion hardly needs an introduction. It forms an essential part of vegetables, though due to its typical odour (Durgandha), a section of people avoid it on religious grounds but a great majority use it as routine item of food. It is a very useful and effective home remedy and its bulb and seeds are used for medicinal purposes.
It is hot in action, stimulant, relieves Kapha and has a carminative action. It is considered as musk by poor people in rural areas. In cases of eholera, when nothing is available, the plain juice of onion is given for drinking and on the whole body this juice is rubbed.
The bulb broken and given for smelling removes unconsciousness. In many an emergency this has been tried with success.
The juice of onion, one or two drops, poured into the ear relieves earache. The juice is also applied for scorpion sting. A poultice is prepared after boiling onion which when applied to an abcess makes it ripe.
Patients suffering from disorders of Vayu can make use of onion in the same way as they do with garlic.
Onion is a constituent of many of the aphrodisiacs. Onion cut into small pieces, fried in pure ghee and taken early morning continuously for 21 to 42 days acts as a powerful aphrodislac.
Rural folks after a long walk take onion and gur with water, which gives them stamina.
In cases of sunstroke, the use of onion stops thirst on the spot and mitigates the effect of sunstroke.
The powder of black gram (udad) is rubbed in the juie of onion for seven days and the dried powder in the form of kanji produces an aphrodisiac effect.
Often onion is eaten raw or with salt and pepper. Onion eaten with gur helps the growth of children.
