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 | Onion Other Names:
Botanical Name: Allium cepa
Family: N.O. Liliaceae |
Medicinal Usage: |
Antiseptic, diuretic. A roasted Onion is a useful application to tumours or earache.
The juice made into a syrup is good for colds and coughs. Hollands gin, in which Onions have been macerated, is given as a cure for gravel and dropsy. |
Ancient Lore: |
ONION ALLIUM CEPA
They are flatulent, or windy, but provoke the appetite, increase thirst, ease the bowels and provoke the courses.
Where to find it: Cultivated in gardens, but a native plant of the Middle East.
Flowering time: Early summer.
Astrology: Owned by Mars.
Medicinal virtues: Onions increase sperm. They kill worms in children if they drink the water in which the Onions have been steeped all night. Roasted Onions, eaten with honey or sugar and oil, help an inveterate cough and expectorate tough phlegm.
Snuffed up the head, the juice purges the head and helps lethargy, but eaten often is said to procure pains in the head.
The juice is good for scalds and burns, and used with vinegar it takes away blemishes, spots and marks in the skin. Onions are injurious to people of bilious habit, affecting the head, eyes and stomach.
Modern uses: The properties of Onion are similar to Garlic. It is antiseptic, diuretic and expectorant. The juice is made into a syrup with honey and used as a medicine for coughs, asthma and bronchitis. Homoeopaths prescribe pills made from the Onion for hay fever and rhinitis. A tincture of onion made by steeping an Onion in alcohol is diuretic and used to expel sediment from the bladder and to treat dropsy. |
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