NUTRITIONAL BENEFITS OF ONIONS
Onions are a stinky food that we love to add to pizza, salads, salsa, sandwiches and other foods to enhance the flavor of the other ingredients. The stinky reason that onions smell this way is sulfur.
Sulfur is a very important nutrient in our diet because it helps the formation of proteins. When you put onions on your feet before bed, you are making a source of sulfur available to your body to absorb while you rest.
Sulfur is important to building healthy hair and fingernails, for making insulin in the body and for building muscles. Putting onions on your feet before bed allows the onion oil to penetrate your skin, providing sulfur for your body. Of course, you can eat onions to get this benefit as well, just don’t eat the ones that you have used on your feet.
HEALTH PROBLEMS THAT ARE HELPED BY PUTTING ONIONS ON YOUR FEET
Onions have been used to ‘purify the blood’ for centuries as far as folk remedies are concerned. There are several health problems that may be helped when you put onions on your feet before bed.
Liveandfeel.com lists the following health problems that can be helped by applying onion oil to the skin:
* Common cold and flu
* Gland imbalance
* High blood pressure
* Immune system complaints
* Inflammation
* Nausea
* Loss of appetite
* Weakness