Although onions have not been on our dining tables for long, onions as a food and medicine are very popular because they have a strong volatile substance, which has a very unique effect on treating colds and wind-cold syndromes, etc. Especially, children with a cold and cough are very suitable for using onion water. Let’s take a look at how to steam the onion water for treating coughs. I hope parents can understand some of it.

Since ancient times, whenever people have a cough or sore throat, they make onion juice because this recipe is simple and effective! The specific method is as follows:

Peel and chop the onions, put them in a pot with an equal amount of sugar, and cook over medium heat to a thick juice. Pour out the onion juice, drink one to two spoons each time, three to four times a day, and you will see a significant therapeutic effect after persisting for a month.

Purple skin onions are mostly oblate, with surfaces in purple or purple-red, and the flesh is mostly white with purple. Varieties with yellow or white skins, except for the slight difference in skin color, the flesh is all white. The content of protein, dietary fiber, as well as calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, magnesium, zinc, iron, and other minerals in purple skin onions is higher than that of yellow and white skins, but the latter two have higher contents of beta-carotene and vitamin C than purple skin onions.

Purple skin onions contain plant anthocyanins, which are plant chemicals with antioxidant activity tens of times stronger than vitamin C and vitamin E, and can protect the human body from damage by free radicals.