It is a plant that is in almost all the countries; its use commonest is against affections in the respiratory routes like cough, gripa, bronchitis, difteria, tosferina and inflammation of throat. Also aid to fight the pain teeth, badly the breath and some problems like vomit, bad digestion, intestinal gastritis and parasites. Also, its use includes external sufferings like pain ears, blows, menstrual reumatismo, anemia and pains. In most of the cases, the used part more is the bulb, same that is prepared of different ways. The juice of one or more onions drinks to cure the cough or, of boiled way, for the anginas, and the chewed leaves are used to fortify the teething.
Herbaceous with extended leaves that leave from the bulbous stem that it is developed under earth; it produces a support where the small flowers with form of Original parasol of Asia and Europe are located, now adapted to different habitats in climates warm, semiwarm, semidry and tempering. It is cultivated in houses and she is associate to the tropical forest caducifolia, subperennifolia, perennifolia, scrub xerófilo, forests mesófilo of mountain, encino and pine.
Onion
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So that the onion loses its sharp flavor and is sweeter, before using it it must stay, cut, submerged in vinegar. The housewives say that it is a trick that almost never fails.
The eatable part of the plant of the onion is its fleshy globular bulb (which we see sectioned the left of the drawing), whereas its inflorescencia (center) almost is not known us. From the bulb they are obtained prepared from multiple therapeutic actions.
The onion is one of the cultivated culinarias plants more throughout the world and their numerous forms and varieties occupy thousands of hectares of territories of work. In the photography, tender onions divided for stews and salads.
The bread soup with garlic and onion, a healthful and digestive culinaria preparation.
Original of the Next East, where it was cultivated more ago than 4,000 years, she has been one of the plants that all the cultures have adapted to their kitchen by the great amount of benefits that it provides to the health.
CHARACTERISTICS: It is a plant of less of a meter of height, that is developed from a fleshy bulb, with surrounding and long leaves. It lives two years: during first the bulb forms, and during the second it grows the stem and it forms the flora and the fruit. The flowers are grouped in a spherical inflorescencia that culminates the stem.
LOCATION: One is not in wild state, but it is cultivated everywhere.
ACTIVE PRINCIPLES: The therapeutic actions of the onion on the organism must to a compound that is not in other plants, the call "disulfuro of alilpropilo", a tear volatile oil. In addition, it has vitamins To, B, C, and and PP, sugars, fats, proteins.
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES: The property list of the onion is interminable. We could say that she is diurética, it opens the appetite, it favors the slightly laxative digestion and. Calm the cough, eliminates bronchial secretions and is stimulate Turns out useful to avoid that the arterial pressure raises.
Farmacológica Action
The fructosanas are responsible for their diurética action, reinforced by the potassium salts and the flavonoides that in addition present/display an antiinflammatory action. The essential oil is hipoglucemiante, expectorante, antiseptic, antifúngico, hipocolesterolemiante, anticoagulating (antiagregante plaquetario), hypotension, antihelmíntico, balsamic, rubefaciente and the analgesic premises.
HARVESTING: The bulb is the eatable part. It is taken to start off of the first year, at any time according to the region and the moment at which one stands If the first year is taken during, when bulb not yet totally is developed, uses the whole plant (tender onions).
USES And APPLICATIONS: There are thousand forms different from condimento with the onions. That must consider so that it exerts his effects with the Maxima intensity, it must be taken crude, and the best way is in salad, flavored with salt, oil trims off lower branches of) and vinegar. Nevertheless, the soup onion of our grandparents cannot forget, 250 grams of onions are gilded you cut trocitos (or ralladas) in mantequilla. 50 grams of flour are added to the frying pan about. Once gilded, a bucket of broth is added. When it has acquired a doughy consistency, one lies down to a pot with hot broth (about 2 liters). It is boiled during one hour and it is strained. One becomes to warm up and add to 4 dangerous eggs and 200 grams rallado cheese. To retire of the fire and to serve it
Indications
States in which an increase of the diuresis is required: genitourinarias affections (cystitis, ureteritis, uretritis, pielonefritis, oliguria, urolitiasis), hiperazotemia, hiperuricemia, drop, arterial hypertension, edemas, overweight accompanied by retention of liquids. Tachycardia, hipercolesterolemia, prevention of arteriosclerosis and tromboembolismos. Diabetes, influenza, resfriados, bronchitis, asthma. Intestinal parasitism. Inflammations osteoarticulares.
Contraindications
Due to his fibrinolítica action, the doctor will have to evaluate the convenience of the administration of extracts of onion in cases of active hemorrhages, or when treatments with anticoagulants are followed.
Not to prescribe forms of metering with alcoholic content to smaller children of two years nor to consultantes in process of etílica deshabituación.
Indirect effect
It can cause contact dermatitis.
Precaution/Poisonings
The use of diuréticos in the presence of hypertension or cardiopathies, only must become by prescription and under medical checkup, given the possibility of appearance of a tensional descompensación or, if the potassium elimination is considerable, an involution of the effect of the cardiotónicos.
When one prescribes diabetics, glucemia will be due to control to fit, if it is necessary, the doses of insulin or oral antidiabetics.
To consider the alcoholic content of the fluid extract and the dye.
Galénicas Forms/Dosage
- Bulb: Nourishing use.
- Decocción (5%), three or more bowls to the day.
- fluid Extract (1:1): 30-50 drops, one to three times to the day.
- It tinctures (1:10): 20 to 40 drops, 1-3 times to the day.
- dry Extract (5:1): 0,5 to 1 g/día (1 g is equivalent to 5 g of dry plant).
External use: Popularly, like infantile antitusivo remedy, a onion cut on the small table is placed at night, maintaining the room closed.
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