Your eyes might get tearful when you cut onions. But the moment you get to know the benefits of this bulbous vegetable, you get to feel it is worth shedding few drops of tears.
Onion has so many uses. While some prefer consuming it alone, some add this to dishes to enhance its taste and while some others use it to clean barbecue grills.
Onion is basically a vegetable and grown all across the globe. It is enriched with vitamin C and B6, iron, folate, and potassium. Onion is rich source of manganese which provides protection against the cold and flu. Significant amounts of polyphenols and quercetin, an antioxidant flavonoid, is known for their anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory and anti-diabetic properties.
Those above benefits are derived when an onion is consumed. But, the vegetable will give you lots of health benefits even when it is not consumed.
How?
If you cut an onion into few slice for salad in night, eat some and retain some for its therapeutic use. The therapeutic use is to put onion slices in your socks before going to sleep. You will lose nothing if you give a try to this use.
Method:
- Cut the organic onions (only organic, or else it will have opposite result) into flat slices. Keep slices in your socks under your feet and go to sleep.
Benifts:
- When you are sleeping with onion slices in your socks, its phosphoric acid enters the bloodstream and purifies the blood.
- They also kill and protect from bacteria and germs.
- They act as protector from cold and flu.
- They help eliminating toxins and chemicals from the feet and thereby making them smell better.
PNN/Agencies
