After 15 minutes, you can consume garlic in any form. For example, add to the vegetable salad. With a cold, this is a very useful dish. Vegetables contain bioflavonoids, which protect the person from colds and strengthen immunity. Garlic can be added to any dish prepared on the plate - the useful properties of allicin in temperature processing are reduced slightly.
Garlic contains: vitamin A, B1, B2, C, PP, flavonoids, allicin, chromium, adenosine. And also contains active compounds, such as saponins, steroids, calcium, magnesium, potassium, cobalt, nickel.
Garlic increases the body's immune response. It contains compounds that fight with stomatitis, herpes, the influenza virus. Garlic stimulates the secretion of insulin, destroys free radicals. It is useful in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases.
Garlic prevents hypertension. This is due to the sulfur content. The antibiotic properties of garlic, which effectively act against bacteria of pneumonia, staphylococcus have been proven.
Garlic has the following properties:
- antibacterial,
- anti-virus;
- antitumor;
- improves bacterial flora;
- strengthens the immune system;
- reduces blood sugar;
- lowers blood pressure;
- lowers cholesterol.
Onion in recipes of folk medicine
Now go smoothly to the bow. Onions for their healing properties is similar to garlic and also has in its composition useful to us allicin. It also manifests itself after shredding and a 15-minute sludge. When the number of colds sharply increases, include onions and garlic daily in your diet. The therapeutic dose for an adult is 2 cloves of garlic or 1/2 of a bulb.
Onions are available, common, and "to tears loved" to each of us. It improves digestion, increases the body's resistance to infectious diseases, it is harmful not only to bacteria, but also to various fungi and viruses, strengthens the secretion of gastric juice, stimulates appetite.
Onion is called a natural antibiotic. It is used for colds, atherosclerosis, hypertension, gastrointestinal disorders. Onion juice improves liver function, lowers blood sugar, dissolves kidney sand and so on. And it is not surprising, because he is stuffed with valuable substances: vitamins A, B, C, E, PP, phosphorus, iron, calcium, potassium, iodine, organic acids and so on.
Green onions are useful, it can be grown all year round: in the summer - in the garden, in the winter - on the windowsill. In the rich experience of traditional medicine there are effective and affordable recipes that can successfully treat various diseases.
Atherosclerosis (sclerosis)
Grate the onion on a grater, squeeze 1 glass of juice, mix it with honey (1: 1) and take 1 tablespoon 2 times a day (morning and evening) 30 minutes before eating. Course - 1 or 2 months.
Bronchitis, dry cough
500 grams of chopped onion is mixed with 400 grams of sugar, boiled in 1 liter of water on low heat for 3 hours, let's cool. Add 50 grams of honey, stir, pour into a jar, close the lid and store it in the refrigerator. We take 4-6 tablespoons a day after meals.
To mitigate dry cough and better expectoration
1 or 2 heads of garlic and 10 bulbs chop and boil in 1/2 liter of non-pasteurized milk, until the garlic and onions are soft. Then add 1 tablespoon of raspberry jam or honey. We drink 1 or 2 tablespoons every hour for the whole day.
Flu
On grater, we rub 1 or 2 onions, fill half a liter of boiling milk (do not boil), insist 20 or 30 minutes in a warm place. We drink half the hot brew for the night, the other half of the hot infusion we drink in the morning. With this treatment, the flu passes through 3 or 4 days without complications.
Renal stone disease
50 grams of chopped onion we will fill 1/2 liter of vodka, we insist 7 or 10 days, we will filter. We take 1 or 2 teaspoons with 3 tablespoons of water 2 or 3 times a day. This onion helps to dissolve small stones and sand.
Runny nose, otitis
In inflammatory processes, we lay in the nostrils and ears pieces of cotton wool, moistened with onion juice.
Angina
Help rinse your throat with fresh onion juice, dilute it 1: 1 with honey.
Furuncles, heel spurs, pimples, abscesses
1 -2 cut onions onions, cook until softened to 100 mg of milk, apply a hot onion to the sore, apply a bandage.
Hemorrhoids (internal)
In a thick clay pot, pour 2 liters of milk, put 4 or 5 large bulbs, close and soak in the oven until softening. Close the pot with a wooden lid with a hole and warm the anus over the steam for about 30 minutes. After this, we will necessarily lubricate the passage outside and inside with vaseline and take a laxative. The procedure is repeated after 3 days.
Prostatitis and adenoma
1 cup washed in a colander onion husks fill with 1/2 liter of water, boil for 7 minutes on low heat, insist 40 minutes, drain. Add 3 tablespoons of honey, stir. Drink 1/2 cup 3 times daily before meals for 5 days. Then we take a break for 5 days. So we repeat until the improvement.
During breaks it is desirable to do salt wraps. 200 grams of salt is soluble in 2 liters of water, we moisten the linen sheet, squeeze it slightly and turn it over for 2 hours.
There is an easier way - we eat 1 or 2 onions at night. And that the onion was not so hot, cut it and hold it for 2 or 3 minutes in warm water. Add a little green peas and eat unsweetened pumpkin seeds (1/2 cup).
Headache
Cut the bulb into circles, attach them to the nape, wrap the head with a towel. The pain will soon subside.
Regular and regular eating of onions (especially at night) improves the condition of patients with hypertension, helps with anemia, insomnia, diabetes.
The French even offer onion dinner: mix finely chopped 2-3 onions, mashed a fork with a boiled egg, grated apple with sourness.
Scientists have found that onions can purify brain cells and delay the process of their aging. They also found out that the use of onions and garlic in food leads to a reduction in the incidence of breast cancer. But there are contraindications to the intake of onion preparations: cardiovascular diseases, diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, acute diseases of the kidneys and liver.
Now we know about the useful properties of garlic and onions. But before using these recipes, you should definitely consult with your doctor.