Posted on April 24, 2008 in Common Ailments
Everyone can easily relate Insomnia with sleepless nights or unable to fall asleep. In case you are one of the insomniacs then till now you must have tried different home remedies for insomnia. But have you ever thought Onions can be an effective part of your insomnia treatment. The answer would be “NO”.
There is no scientific research or study conducted to back-up onion as an effective remedy for insomnia. But there is no harm in trying onion as a remedy for treating insomnia as there will be no side effect. But the question arises, how to use onion for curing insomnia? Here are few tips you can use to avail benefits of onion remedy in curing insomnia:
- You might find it strange but many people have experienced the benefit of eating raw onion before bedtime. They say that onion helps in inducing sound sleep. You can eat garden variety or Spanish variety of onions.
- Make sure that you include onions in your salad. In case you don’t like eating raw then you can prepare onion soup for dinner.
- Simply eating boiled onions can also help in relieving insomnia symptoms.
- According to folk remedies insomnia can be treated by keeping an onion under your pillow.
- Other simple way to use onion is to smell an onion slice before going to bed. You can even keep a jar with sliced onions beside your bed. So that in case of sleep disturbance in mid-night you can smell it and sleep.
- You can even drink onion juice.
Why Onion acts as an Effective Home Remedy for Insomnia?
Onion is one of the most cultivated and consumed vegetables around the world. Onion not only adds flavor to different food but it also has lots of health benefits. Onions have lots of therapeutic, anti-fungal, anti-bacterial and other beneficial properties. According to traditional Chinese food therapy onions are considered to be of warm nature. As per Chinese food therapy onions have great potential in relaxing tensed muscles. Hence they are beneficial in treating sleep disorders like insomnia. They relax your tensed muscles and induce sound sleep.
Onion remedy for insomnia could be considered to be one of effective remedy as it is easily available, easy to use, cost efficient and without any side effects.
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