When you’re feeling rotten it can be a real drag trying to get out to the store to buy medicines. So why not turn to your store cupboard and locate the humble onion to feel rejuvenated? Onions have long been known for their health-promoting benefits and it’s true that they’ve many uses and applications to make us feel better. Taken internally and topically, their uses are virtually endless! So take a look at these 9 amazing ways to use onions for better health and enjoy!
If you get stung by a bee, remove the stinger as quickly and as carefully as you can then apply chopped white onion to draw out the venom and to reduce swelling.
Treat sunburn by applying sliced onion to the affected area for a few minutes. Next, remove the onion and brush egg white over the area, applying gauze as the final step. You should be healed in no time!
To treat nasty boils which just won’t go away, grind up half an onion until you are left with a smooth paste. Apply the paste to your boil for an hour or so and wash off with water. Repeat this around 5 times a day and the boil should disappear as if by magic!
The humble onion contains incredible healing qualities and can even help minimize clinical scarring!
Onions even work on cuts! Peel some onion skins and use to seal up small wounds. This will speed up healing and minimize bleeding too!
If you have dust lodged in your eye and it just won’t budge, chop an onion, inhale, tear up and cry that dust right out!
If you have a sore ear simply take out the innermost ‘heart’ of an onion and place it loosely in your ear. This should decrease pain and loosen wax too.
Relieve cold symptoms by boiling an onion in tea or if you’re feeling brave, eat half a raw onion in one sitting. This really works!
You can even use onions and sugar to make a cough syrup. Instructions here.
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