Sand onions are warm, pungent, rich in volatile substances, their smell is pungent, with bactericidal and antibacterial effect, while sand onions contain sulfur compounds, also has a strong bactericidal effect.
It is not appropriate to eat more sand onion people:
1, sand onion flavor pungent, will stimulate the secretion of saliva and gastric acid, at the same time on the intestinal tract there is a certain degree of irritation, so gastrointestinal tract disease patients, especially the ulcer disease is not appropriate to eat sand onion, a large amount of gastric acid and pungent ingredients will stimulate the ulcer point, resulting in physical discomfort.
2, sand onion sex warm, taste pungent, edible can promote metabolism, promote sweating, so some of their own weak sweaty crowd eating sand onion aggravate weak sweaty situation, is not good for health.
3, eye disease patients can not eat more spicy overweight sand onion, will stimulate the eye, aggravate eye disease, and even damage vision, so the eye is not good people should not eat too much onion.
Expanded:
Sand onion, also known as Mongolian leek is a perennial herb of the family Liliaceae, genus Allium, with densely clustered, terete bulbs; tawny tunic, leaves semiterete to terete, shorter than the scape, the scape terete, the involucre unilaterally dehiscent, the umbel hemispherical to globose, the flowers reddish, lilac to purplish-red and large; tepals ovate-matrix-rounded, the ovaries subequal in length, the ovaries subequal in length, the filaments nearly as long as the ovaries. Filaments subequal, ovary obovoid-globose; style slightly longer than ovary, not extending beyond perianth.
It occurs in China in Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Nei Mongol, and Liaoning. It occurs in deserts, sandy places, or arid mountain slopes at 800-2800 m above sea level. It is also found in SW Mongolia.
Artificial cultivation has been realized. The leaves and flowers are edible. The ground part of the name into Mongolia, can appetizing, digestion, kill insects, the main treatment of indigestion, do not think of food, bald sores, green leg disease. All kinds of livestock are happy to eat, for a superior forage plant.
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