For sure, each of us has repeatedly heard about the benefits of honey and onions. During a cold, sometimes these products are among the first to come to the rescue. Most often, of course, honey and onions are used individually. But in the treatment of cough, including bronchitis, a mixture of onions with honey helps a lot.
Recipes based on onions and honey
Onions with honey from a cough are very easy to cook. Depending on your desire, you can use one of the following recipes.
Recipe # 1:
- Grate the onion on a fine grater and squeeze the juice using a sieve (or gauze).
- Mix it with the same amount of honey.
Recipe # 2:
- To prepare this recipe for cough, you need to grind half a kilogram of onions, add 20 grams of sugar and four or five tablespoons of honey.
- Pour the mixture with one liter of boiling water and let stand for about an hour.
- Then strain.
Recipe # 3:
- Three large or four medium-sized onions finely chopped and mixed with 350 grams of sugar. Add 50 grams of honey and mix.
- Pour hot water and simmer for at least an hour.
- Strain and store in the refrigerator.
In emergency cases, to treat a cough, you can simply mix grated onions with honey in equal proportions.
You can take all these medicines three to five times a day.
In addition, you can prepare a fairly pleasant mashed potatoes from honey and apple onions. For him, the products are rubbed on a fine grater and mixed in a ratio of two tablespoons of apple, two tablespoons of honey and a tablespoon of onions.
Advantages and disadvantages of the drug
The undoubted advantage of this recipe is the complete naturalness of the mixture and its high efficiency in the treatment of cough. Honey is a storehouse of vitamins and nutrients, which stimulate the immune system and exert a restorative effect on the body. Also, honey has powerful antibacterial and antiviral properties, helping the body to fight the disease.
Onions contain phytoncides, which give it a powerful antibacterial effect. A large number of vitamins and mineral salts contribute to the normalization and restoration of water-salt metabolism in the body during illness.
Despite the naturalness of the mixture of onions with honey and sugar from cough, this remedy also has some contraindications. If there is a food allergy to honey, take this medicine categorically is contraindicated. But do not despair. You just need to exclude it from the recipe and add a little more sugar.
In diseases associated with the gastrointestinal tract, especially in the phase of exacerbation, it is also worthwhile to refrain from taking this medication.
It is not necessary to give a combination of these, undoubtedly, useful products and children up to a year and a half or two.