Things Your Doctor Forgot to Tell

Let’s dig more about onions as natural home remedies. I have found astonishing things from the researches on onions.

Here below I will share with you the studies conducted by well-known universities:

1. Wageningen Agricultural University, the Netherlands

• The absorption of quercetin from onions is twice that from tea and more than three times that from apples.
• Daily consumption of onions may result in increased accumulation of quercetin in the blood.

Studies have indicated that quercetin helps:

-        to eliminate free radicals in the body,

-        to inhibit low-density lipoprotein oxidation (an important reaction in the atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease),

-        to protect and regenerate vitamin E (a powerful antioxidant),

-        and to inactivate the harmful effects of chelate metal ions.

2. The Queen’s University at Belfast, Ireland

• The content of quercetin in onions is estimated to be between 22.40 mg and 51.82 mg per medium-sized onion (100 gram).

3. University of Wisconsin-Madison

• The more pungent onions exhibit strong anti-platelet activity. Platelet aggregation is associated with atherosclerosis, cardiovascular disease, heart attack and stroke.

4. University of Bern in Switzerland

• Consumption of 1 g dry onion per day for 4 weeks increased bone mineral content in rats by more than 17% and mineral density by more than 13% compared to animals fed a control diet. This data suggests onion consumption has the potential to decrease the incidences of osteoporosis.

What are the significant components in onions that contribute to your health?

1.      quercetin have beneficial effects against many diseases and disorders, including:

-         cataracts,

-         cardiovascular disease,

-         cancer: breast, colon, ovarian, gastric, lung and bladder.

2.      phytochemicals known as disulfides, trisulfides, cepaene, and vinyl dithiins; thus,  these compounds have a variety of health-functional properties, including:

- anticancer,

- antimicrobial activities.

3.      source of vitamin C, potassium, dietary fiber and folic acid.

4.      calcium, iron and have a high protein quality (ratio of mg amino acid/gram protein).

Are you anxious to find out the good news about onions besides from the aforementioned information?

Onions are low in sodium and contain no fat.

This is great news for you who apply healthy natural diet. Thus, not only to avoid increase your fat in body, also it is a fabulous way for illness prevention and maintains your overall health.

Have you ever wondered why onions are able to lowering blood pressure and decrease cholesterol levels?

It is all because onions are low in calories yet add abundant flavor to a wide variety of foods. With only 45 calories per serving, onions are fat and cholesterol free, very low in sodium, high in vitamin C, and a good source of fiber and other key nutrients.

Furthermore, onions contain a variety of other naturally occurring chemicals known as organosulfur compounds that have been linked to lowering blood pressure and cholesterol levels. Thus, it is proven that onions in the function of natural cure since as a part of natural home remedies.

Start now and do not delay any seconds for your daily intake with onions in your meals!

If you are having toothache, I bet it feels very annoying.

Do you know that a home remedy can cure your toothache?

I can imagine how it feels, you are unable to eat comfortably, hardly can sleep well and sometimes even cannot speak at all.

No worries!

Shallot is one of the natural home remedies to solve your problem here.

Take 1 shallot and cut through it into 2 pieces. Afterward, heat it up on top of a small flame about 5 minutes. After it become warm, put it on the toothache.

Thus, it would be the best thing for you to consult with a dentist immediately if your toothache still continues.

Garlic is the most common and basic herb that most people in this world often use as part of cooking ingredients for their meals. I believe, garlic is always available in every kitchen around the globe. Well, you do have garlic in your kitchen, right? Furthermore, its power as natural home remedies is unquestionable!

Texture & Contour

Garlic is officially well known as Allium sativum L. For centuries, garlic has been used throughout recorded history for both culinary and medicinal purposes. It has a characteristic pungent, spicy flavor that mellows and sweetens considerably with cooking. A bulb of garlic, the most commonly used part of the plant, is divided into numerous fleshy sections called cloves. The cloves are used as seed, for consumption (raw or cooked), and for medicinal purposes. The leaves, stems (scape) and flowers (bulbils) on the head (spathe) are also edible and most often consumed while immature and still tender. The papery, protective layers of ’skin’ over various parts of the plant and the roots attached to the bulb are the only parts not considered palatable.

Storage

Domestically, garlic is stored warm (above 18 °C or 64 °F) and dry, to keep it dormant (so that it does not sprout). It is traditionally hung; softneck varieties are often braided in strands called “plaits” or grappes. Untreated garlic kept in oil at room temperature can support the growth of deadly Clostridium botulinum. Peeled cloves may be stored in wine or vinegar in the refrigerator. Commercially, garlic is stored at 0 °C, also dry.

Farming

Allium sativum grows in the wild in areas where it has become naturalized. Garlic is easy to grow and can be grown year-round in mild climates. In cold climates, cloves can be planted in the ground about six weeks before the soil freezes, and harvested in late spring. Garlic plants are not attacked by pests. Garlic plants can be grown close together, leaving enough room for the bulbs to mature, and are easily grown in containers of sufficient depth. Even though you don’t have a garden or backyard and living in an apartment, there is always a way to cultivate garlic, for example, in a pot. Thus, in case you live quite far from the market and suddenly you are running out on garlic, no need to worry being out of stock.

Stay tune for the second part about this powerful garlic. How does garlic play significant role to our health, the side effects and important recommendations to be concerned.

Reference:

Garlic the wonder food

Garlic - Enhances Immune Function

Garlic Health Benefits

Garlic - Wikipedia

Have you ever heard that onion family as natural home remedies can be useful also to tackle your common dilemmas around household?

Here below the 8 effective ways to ease your life at minimum cost and it is so exciting being back to nature by making use of what you have in your kitchen!

1] Make mosquito repellent

Some people find that increasing their intake of onions or garlic in the summer — or rubbing a slice of onion over their exposed skin — is a good way to keep away mosquitoes and other biting insects (not to mention friends and family).

2] To banish itchy and swollen from mosquito bite

Shallots are very effective to banish annoying itchy and to prevent scabies due to mosquito bite. Take 1 shallot and cut it into 2 pieces, then rub them over our skin where has been bitten by mosquito. Definitely you will enjoy the result because those swollen and itchy because of mosquito bite would go away for good.

3] Remove rust from knives

Forget about using steel wool or harsh chemicals — how’s this for an easy way to get the rust off your kitchen or utility knives? Plunge your rusty knife into a large onion three or four times (if it’s very rusty, it may require a few extra stabs). The only tears you shed will be ones of joy over your rust-free blade.

4] Eliminate new paint smell

Your bedroom’s new shade of paint looks great, but the smell is keeping you up all night. What to do? Place several freshly cut slices of onion in a dish with a bit of water. It will absorb the smell within a few hours.

5] Correct pet “mistakes”

If Rover or Kitty is still not respecting your property — whether it is by chewing, tearing, or soiling — you may be able to get the message across by leaving several onion slices where the damage has been done. Neither cats nor dogs are particularly fond of “eau de onion,” and they’ll avoid returning to the scene of their crimes.

6] Soothe a bee sting

If you have a nasty encounter with a bee at a barbecue, grab one of the onion slices intended for your burger and place it over the area where you got stung. It will ease the soreness. (If you are severely allergic to bee or other insect stings, seek medical attention at once).

7] Use as smelling salts

If you happen to be with someone at a party or in a restaurant who feels faint — and you don’t normally carry smelling salts in your pocket — reach for a freshly cut onion. The strong odor is likely to bring him around.

8] Use as a natural pesticide

Whip up an effective insect and animal repellent for the flowers and vegetables in your garden. In a blender, puree 4 onions, 2 cloves garlic, 2 tablespoons cayenne pepper, and 1 quart water (1 liter). Set the mixture aside. Now dilute 2 tablespoons soap flakes in 2 gallons (7.5 liters) water. Pour in the contents of your blender, shake or stir well, and you have a potent, environment-friendly solution to spray on your plants.

Now you know some secrets about onion family to simplify your day to day difficulties. Since you and I believe in the wisdom of global sharing, please do not hesitate to disclose your secrets with onion family with all of us here by leaving it in the comment section below.

It must be fantastic to reveal our secrets, because helping others is healthy!

Reference: Reader’s Digest & Kartini Magazine

Are you having a swing mood, feeling low or undergo blue feelings?

Have you ever thought that actually your daily meals play critical role to your mood? It’s not just about the problems or going through hard times that make you feeling blue. The psychological thing it’s not the only factor related to your mood. Remember, you are what you eat.

I bet at the time when you are not feeling great, mostly you would pick up some chocolates, doughnuts, juicy black forest cake, or even ice cream. Am I right?

Please with all do respect, ditch all those kind of foods because they will only increase your blood sugar level. Perhaps, it would feel good at first after eating those, but afterwards it will only make you more addicted to them. Thus, it will adding potential risks to your health.

Is there anyway you can replace them?

Sure, look for the natural home remedies, being back to nature it is strongly suggested. Why? Because they will affect a great deal to your healthy life style!

Let’s check this out, based on a recent study by The British Dietetic Association, lack of important vitamins may be the cause of your moody feelings. Eating more foods rich in vitamin B, folic acid, iron and selenium is a health way to improve your mood. What are the foods would be?

Examine your kitchen and fridge now, if you want a feel-good snack, up your vitamin B intake by eating marmite on wholegrain toast or a handful of dried fruit. Fresh fruit like banana is good for your daily intake to maintain your overall health.

Grab an orange, which is rich in folic acid, or choose a breakfast cereal fortified with iron. A handful of brazil nuts, one boiled egg or grilled fish are all excellent sources for selenium.

So, what are you waiting for? Go grab them in your kitchen and fridge. In case you haven’t had them yet, make it as regular shopping list to buy starting next time you are going to supermarket for your weekly groceries.

Reference: Reader’s Digest

Vegetables and onions, what a perfect of combination for your natural home remedies!

No worries, this recipe will not be the last part of how you can optimize onions in your daily meals. There will be much more to come for you to enjoy. So do keep coming back to Our Home Remedies unless if you want to loose the valuable information on how you can maintain a “healing kitchen” as your natural home remedies.

Good luck on your venture to try it out below recipe!

Grilled Vegetables in Balsamic Tomato Sauce with CousCous

Recipe by: Christopher O’Hearn

Photo by: SunFlower

“The sweetness of grilled vegetables is balanced by a tart tomato sauce, which mixes perfectly with simple couscous. Preferably use a heavy grill pan. If you don’t have one you can use a baking tray beneath an oven grill, or even roast the vegetables in a hot oven and then transfer them to a pan for the last part.

But you will get more of the char-grill flavor if you use a pan. If you want to make more or less couscous, just use the same quantity of water as couscous. This dish keeps well, as the flavor of the vegetables seems to grow stronger. It is just as nice served lightly warmed for lunch as hot for a dinner, or uses it as a cold dish in a selection of salads.”

PREP TIME  20 Min

COOK TIME  15 Min

READY IN  35 Min

4 servings

INGREDIENTS (Nutrition)

• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 red bell pepper
• 1 zucchini
• 1 small eggplant
• 1 large sweet onion
• 3/4 cup frozen broad beans
• 1 (14.5 ounce) can diced tomatoes
• 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
• 1 cup couscous
• 1 cup vegetable stock

DIRECTIONS

1. Remove the seeds from the pepper, and chop into strips about 1 to 2 inches long. Cut the eggplant crossways into rounds about 1/3 to 1/2 inch thick, and cut each one into 6 to 8 even chunks. Peel the onion, and chop into 8 portions. Trim the zucchini, and cut into thick slices.
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3. Heat grill pan over a high heat with a generous splash of olive oil. When it is very hot, add all the vegetables to the pan. Press down occasionally to get grill lines across them. Turn occasionally to prevent burning. Cook for about 15 minutes, or until the vegetables are evenly browned and cooked through.
4. Stir broad beans into the vegetables. Add chopped tomatoes, and vinegar. Simmer for a few minutes while the couscous is prepared.
5. Place couscous into a medium bowl. Add boiling vegetable stock, and stir with a fork. Keep lifting the couscous occasionally to prevent it sticking. It only takes 2 to 3 minutes to become soft. Place couscous in a large bowl or serving platter, and serve the vegetables on top.

Source: Allrecipe

Yay, onions! As you have been aware the significant role of onions in your day to day intake, there are many ways to make onions more irresistible for your appetite.

What can you do better to include onions as part of your daily meals?

Yes, I will share with you three recipes using onions as natural home remedies and for the taste, it’s unbearable!

Of course, at certain point you might have to adjust the recipes accordingly to suite your taste without forgetting to maintain the healthy aspects.

This time it would be mixed with a soup as part one and the rest… pssst wait for the surprise!

So stay tune for the next recipes.

Tomato Barley Soup

Recipe by: Nancy Olsen

Photo by: Muffin Mans wife

“I LOVE soup! This is one of my favorites. It has lots of vegetables and is full of flavor. I usually throw in some chopped cabbage. To make this a vegetarian recipe, use vegetable broth for the chicken broth.”

PREP TIME  20 Min

COOK TIME  40 Min

READY IN  1 Hr

6 servings

INGREDIENTS (Nutrition)

• 1 cup chopped onions
• 1 cup chopped celery
• 1 cup chopped carrots
• 2 teaspoons minced garlic
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 2 1/2 cups water
• 2 tomatoes, diced
• 1 (14.5 ounce) can peeled and diced tomatoes with juice
• 1 (10.75 ounce) can chicken broth
• 1/4 cup uncooked barley
• 1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper

DIRECTIONS

1. In a large saucepan over medium heat, combine the onions, celery, carrots, garlic and oil and saute for 5 to 10 minutes, or until all vegetables are almost tender.
2. Then add the water, fresh tomatoes, canned tomatoes, chicken broth, barley and ground black pepper.
3. Stir thoroughly and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 35 to 40 minutes, or until barley is tender.

Source: Allrecipe

Today, I will start inspecting around your kitchen for natural home remedies. What is the most easy and simplest thing can be found in your kitchen? Yes, it is onion.

Do you know that onion not only function to make the food more delicious?

I believe you can grab at once these onions in your kitchen. Doesn’t your kitchen have them yet?

Onions as natural home remedies are the most used ingredients in your daily cooking. Their unique flavors make it as essential ingredients in your cooks. It could be served as mixed with pizza, omelets, salad, burger and even in a soup.

Let’s check it out the components inside onions that have play significant role to your health.

• Researchers from University of Bern, Swiss found growth plate chondrocytes (GPCS) inside onions. This crucial component, GPCS, is effective to prevent osteoporosis. GPCS works by preventing bone mass reduction, including calcium. For that reason, onions are claimed to have significant role to avoid osteoporosis.

• One of few published studies in humans, from India, dates back some 30 years, but it found that people with diabetes who ate 2 ounces (60 g) of onions a day experienced a significant drop in blood sugar levels. Researchers credit these effects to the sulfur compounds in onions as well as their flavonoids. These powerful antioxidant compounds also help fight some of the side effects of high blood sugar, not to mention heart disease.

• One study found that people who ate the most onions, along with other foods rich in flavonoids, had a 20 percent lower risk of heart disease. Thanks to their sulfur compounds which help prevent dangerous blood clots and lower high blood pressure. Since sulfur compounds are strongly anti-inflammatory, onions may also help relieve the pain and swelling of arthritis. Plus, onions even seem to boost HDL, the “good” cholesterol.

• Onions are one of the richest food sources of chromium, a trace mineral that improves the body’s ability to respond to insulin.

Bear in your mind now, onions hold crucial part in your health as follows:

1)     preclude weakened bones

2)     avoid osteoporosis

3)     decreasing blood sugar levels

4)     lowering the risk of heart disease

5)     prevent dangerous blood clots

6)     lowering high blood pressure

7)     boosting you HDL, the “kind” cholesterol

8)     improve your body’s ability to respond to insulin

9)     relieve the pain and swelling of arthritis

Therefore, it is strongly suggested to eat an onion each day. It is a must also to have onions in your kitchen as the simplest natural home remedies.

Chefs usually cut onions into slices by shaping them circles, coating the onions with seasoning, cover it with flour and then fried it. Having this eating habit is a wise thing to prevent those abovementioned potential dangers to your overall health.

Just do it from now on!

Reference:

Trubus Magazine No.456, Nov 2007

Reader’s Digest

Do you know what actually Natural Remedies is? Then, what is the different with Home Remedies and Natural Home Remedies?

Perhaps you have seen abundant information about remedies in the internet. It is quite not difficult to grasp this kind of information on remedies if you have health related background. Nevertheless, how about if you never engaged to health problems and doesn’t even like biology subject back there at school years ago? Most probably you will be overwhelmed by this huge information. And, suppose you hate cooking, or lack the experience being in the kitchen. Why kitchen? Because kitchen is the only source that you can find spices, vegetables, fruits and other natural ingredients which are useful as natural home remedies.

There you go!

Kitchen, also your backyard are the starting point for natural home remedies. They are the hidden treasure for your health and vitality that I’m sure you have been taken for granted all this time. For clarification of definitions, I have confirmed with Dr. Aviandy Sukarto, MSc, SpKP about the meaning of home remedies, natural home remedies and natural remedies.

Home Remedies:

-        everything you can find in your kitchen and your house for remedies which are not only limited to nature elements but also your first aid box and other common items to deal with common ailments;

-        thus would be including a bottle of formulated syrup to banish cough and cold or pills for headache and diarrhea and any other simple medication which have standard approval and under strict licensed from ministry of health which it can be used without prescription from a doctor.

Natural Home Remedies:

- anything you can pick from your kitchen, backyard and surround your home which are still nature in character; for example spices, vegetable, fruit and herbs.

Natural Remedies:

-        you can find it in your kitchen, backyard, garden, ditch, and anything beyond your household which means your surroundings every where you go;

-        consist of herbal remedies and non-herbal remedies (such as dried animals) which only made from natural ingredients.

Now can you see the big picture about Natural Remedies?