Drinking onion water can slowly improve insomnia, improve sleep quality, and make patients sleep more stably and sweetly. Onions contain prostaglandin A, which can dilate blood vessels, dilute blood viscosity and lower blood pressure. Drinking a bowl of onion water before going to bed at night can play a good cold-proof role. Sulfur in onions can effectively improve common constipation symptoms.
Onion is a very delicious food that everyone is familiar with. It can refresh the mind and relieve fatigue. It contains a certain amount of ascorbic acid and has strong activity. Onions can participate in human metabolism, increase the oxygen content in the human brain, and play an important role in refreshing the brain and eliminating fatigue. Another popular recipe is to soak onions in water. So, what is the function of soaking onion skin in water?
The method of soaking onion skin in water is very simple. Peel off the purple skins of two or three onions, wash them with clear water, put them in a pot and add 500 ml of water to boil. Turn off the heat and cook for about 3 minutes, then turn off the heat and drink directly. Drinking half a cup after a meal every day is very beneficial to your health. Onion skin water has many functions. Moderate drinking is good for health.
Prevention and treatment of insomnia
Because of the pressure of work, there is a great possibility of insomnia. If you want to improve sleep quality and fall asleep as soon as possible, you can try drinking onion water, which can slowly improve insomnia, improve sleep quality and make sleep safer and more fragrant.
Assist in lowering blood pressure
Onion contains prostaglandin A, which can dilate blood vessels, dilute blood viscosity and achieve the effect of lowering blood pressure. Drinking a bowl of onion water before going to bed at night will help stabilize blood pressure, promote sodium excretion in the body and avoid the influence of high blood pressure.
Sterilization and cold protection
Allicin is contained in onion, which can kill bacteria and diminish inflammation, and can fight against new influenza viruses, especially seasonal changes, or the temperature difference between day and night is large, so it is easy to catch a cold. Drinking a bowl of onion water before going to bed at night has a good effect on preventing colds.
Stimulate appetite and help digestion
Onion contains allicin, which has a strong aroma and often makes people cry because of its pungent smell during processing. It is this special smell that can stimulate gastric acid secretion and increase appetite. Animal experiments have also proved that onion can improve gastrointestinal tension, promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, play an appetizing role, and have obvious curative effect on anorexia such as atrophic gastritis, insufficient gastric motility and dyspepsia.
Improve constipation
Sulfur in onion combines with protein in large intestine or bacteria in intestine to form hydrogen sulfide, which can promote intestinal peristalsis and make exercise more active. Oligosaccharides can also inhibit the reproduction of harmful bacteria in the intestine. Drinking onion skin tea can effectively improve common constipation symptoms.
Onion is the only food known to contain prostaglandin A. Onion is also a natural blood thinner. Prostaglandin A can dilate blood vessels and reduce blood viscosity, thus lowering blood pressure, reducing peripheral blood vessels, increasing coronary blood flow and preventing thrombosis. It can resist the action of pressor substances such as catecholamine in human body, promote the excretion of sodium salt, and thus lower blood pressure. Regular consumption has a health care effect on patients with hypertension, hyperlipidemia and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.