Onion "Tosca"

* Onions contain protein substances, fiber, calcium salts, phosphorus, trace elements, sugars, essential oil, which includes sulfide substances that have a tear effect, glycosides, inulin, phytin, enzymes and vitamins.
Onions improve appetite, digestion, and enhance intestinal motility, so its preparations are effective for digestive disorders and chronic constipation.
Treatment of pustular skin diseases with onion preparations also gives positive results.
Fresh onions increase sexual potency and are a preventative against atherosclerosis.
NB! Onions and their preparations are contraindicated for diseases of the liver, kidneys, and acute gastrointestinal diseases.

• Traditional medicine recommends onions for bronchitis, whooping cough, acute respiratory diseases, sore throat: onion juice with honey 1:1, 1 tsp. 3-4 times a day.
Diluted onion juice can be used for inhalation.

Eat more onions!
Weather-sensitive people feel unwell, headache or weakness when the weather changes. It's worth trying to eat more raw onions with bread.
Onions regulate vascular tone very well. And don’t be afraid of the strong onion smell, to quickly get rid of it, chew a slice of lemon, parsley or a little propolis.

* Raw onion salad:
1 medium sized onion
large apple or pickled cucumber,
lemon juice to taste,
3 tbsp. spoons of vegetable oil or 5 tbsp. spoons of sour cream,
1/2 tsp. spoons of mustard.
Cut the peeled onion into 4 slices, then cut crosswise into thin slices. Also cut the cucumber. Grate the apple on a coarse grater. Sprinkle lemon juice on onion with apple or cucumber. Salt, add 1 teaspoon. spoon of sugar. Grind vegetable oil or sour cream with mustard and season the salad with this sauce.

Did you know that... dried onions almost completely replace fresh onions in cooking. For salads, dried onions are pre-soaked in cold water. It is used for cooking and frying without soaking. You can dry bulbs with a high content of dry matter.