Originated in Southwest Asia and introduced from abroad, it is called onion in China.

Because only a part of the oblate bulb can be eaten, it is commonly known as onion and onion.

Onions can be eaten by frying, frying, burning, exploding and frying. When cooked, it can also be used for cold salad.

1. Nutritional value

Onions are nutritious. Every 500g contains 9g of protein, 40g of carbohydrate, 200mg of calcium, 250mg of phosphorus, 9mg of iron and 40mg of vitamin C.

Onion is warm and sweet, and has the effects of clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, detoxicating and killing insects. It can be used for adjuvant treatment of insomnia, dysentery, traumatic ulcer, whooping cough, swelling and pain, rheumatic joint pain and other diseases.

Prostaglandins contained in onions can also play a good role in lowering blood pressure.

Therefore, eating onions regularly is beneficial to prevent cardiovascular diseases.

According to analysis, onion is the only vegetable known to contain prostaglandin.

2. Diet prescription

① Treatment of diabetes.

You can often eat vegetables with less starch made from onions, such as vegetarian fried onions and fried pork slices with onions, which plays an auxiliary therapeutic role.

② Treatment of hyperlipidemia.

You can eat a small amount of vegetable oil fried onions every day.

③ Treat dysentery.

Take onion100g, Chinese cabbage 50g, sugar 50g and japonica rice100g, and cook porridge for several days.

④ Treating rheumatoid arthritis.

Take old onion 100g, old ginger 65438 g, chicken feet 5 pairs, add appropriate amount of water, cook, add refined salt, monosodium glutamate, cooking wine, etc. Take it twice in the morning and evening.

⑤ Treat beriberi swelling and pain.

Take onion 100g, radish seed 50g, add rice juice, and decoct, once a day 1 time.

⑥ Treat insomnia.

Take a proper amount of onion, mash it, put it in a small bottle, cover it, slightly open the lid before going to bed and smell it. You can fall asleep in 15 minutes.

⑦ Treat trichomonal vaginitis.

You can eat an appropriate amount of onion raw, and at the same time decoct it with water to clean the vulva and vagina.

(3) Treatment of urinary retention.

50 grams of fresh onion, shredded, mixed with soy sauce vinegar, twice a day, 5 times effective.