15 Benefits of Red Onion

1. Volatile oil contained in the water of red onion is useful to kill most microbes, staphylococci, streptococci as well as microbes that can cause disease and inflammation of the thoracic esophagus.
2. It can also kill microbes diphtheria, amoebic dysentery  and tuberculosis microbe. Red onion is really capable of eliminating these bacteria in a short time.
3. the Steam of red onions can be used to clean wounds and to heal.
4. Can activate the movement of the stomach.
5. Chewing red onions for a few minutes to clean the mouth of microbes including diphtheria microbe.
6. Inhaling the smell of red onions or eating it can cause a volatile oil containing sulfate and can get into human blood, which later can kill microbes that can cause disease.
7. Shallots also has elements similar to the hormone insulin that can help reduce blood sugar levels.
8. Eating red onions which is still raw or cooked mixed with the cheese can minimize the occurrence of blood clots.
9. To cure whooping cough and pneumonia by using a red onion as a compress on the chest. If placed on the kidneys and bladder, can heal difficult urination. If placed on both feet, then it can cure the disorder in the function of blood settings. And if placed on the wound, it will issue a dirty pus and blood. How to make a compress of garlic is to chop onion into small pieces and then heated. After that, placed in the area who want to be treated, then tied with a cloth. Replace the bandage every 12 hours.
10. The pieces of red onion can be used also to treat kalu and eye lets on foot, by way of affixing the pieces of the onion around kalu or eyelets in the afternoon until early morning. Repeat this until the release kalu or fish eye from the foot, then wash with warm water and soap.
11. REd Onion water can be used to bandage on the cut part of the body to relieve pain.
12. Red onion if boiled  with olive oil can be used to treat cracked nipples and hemorrhoids.
13. Steeping the red onions can be used to eliminate worms in children, by way of brewing the pieces of onion and put it in water and stored throughout the night, then during the day time drunk to the child after being mixed with honey. Repeat this process every morning until the worm is really out in full.
14. red union can also remove worms in the stomach and cure hemorrhoids. how to make it as a purgative of a red onion that has been heated around for about 3 minutes in 1 liter of water. In this case, use red onion whose medium or small size that can be inserted into the anus.
15. Inhaling aroma of red onion to treat dizziness and fainting. Because it smells so piercing that can stimulate the circulatory and respiratory functions. Similarly, nerve functions. Thus, red onions can be used as first aid rather than having to use ammonia.

taken from book entitled "Pola Makan Rasulullah" by Prof. Dr. Abdul Basith Muhammad as-Sayyid