ONION

ONION-THE HEALTH BENEFITS

    Onion can make bring you tear but it is fully packed with nutrients that provide a lot of health benefits. Almost everyone avoid to take it as it has pungent flavour and odour which spread over the body and can be sustained for the whole day. This is simply horrible. But it is crazy to hear the sound about its unbelievable health benefits. But when onion is used in curry it makes a delicious taste to all.
     Onion, Allium cepa belongs to the Lily family. It is generally known as bulb onion. 

Onion benefits

• It helps to provide the antiseptic property, anti-microbial property and anti-biotic property to prevent many infections.
• It is a rich source of vitamin C, vitamin B6, dietery fiber,sulphur, potassium. They also contain a sufficient amount of vitamin K and folic acid.
• Onion produces tear because of having the Alliinase enzyme.
• It has the antihistamine property to cure the allergies. It is also used as a remedy to cure headache. Chew a onion daily can remove pain.
• If you are suffering from bleeding in nose just take a breathe of a piece of onion. It can stop bleeding.
• Onion is consisted of a plenty of quercitin. which is helpful to keep the blood cholesterol level low. It also helps to stay away the stomach cancer.
• It is believed to have anti-inflammatory property to reduce the inflammation caused by bee-bite or any other insect-bite. Just take a piece of onion and rub with it on the affected area. After sometime you will the understand the result.
• Daily intake of onion can stay away you from head, neck and colon cancer.
• It also helps to control the sugar level in diabetes patient.
• Onion is popular known to produce tear. But you will be surprised to know that onion juice is beneficial to make clear vision.
• It is excellent remedy to keep away heat inside your body specially in summer. Onion is found to detoxify the body from a few heavy metals.

    So, take a onion with your daily meal by any way either raw or cooked. The study have shown that the raw onion is more beneficial than be cooked. By the way you take it and improve your health-illness and stay fit.