The healing properties of onions with honey: the best recipes for children's cough

Colds and viruses in the autumn-winter period they affect both adults and children. Therefore, in your home medicine cabinet you should always have effective and as harmless products as possible, which are used at the first symptoms of diseases. The range of modern pharmaceutical products - tablets, syrups, instant teas - is huge. However, traditional medicine recipes remain relevant today: their effectiveness has been verified and they do not include synthetic substances.

Honey and onions are considered a powerful cough remedy, and today we will talk about recipes based on these products for children.

Beneficial properties of onions and honey

Both onions and honey have pronounced antiviral and immunostimulating properties. properties. To verify this, it is enough to study their chemical composition.

Table “Vitamins in honey”

Table “Minerals in honey”

Table of the chemical composition of onions (per 100 g of product)

Honey is an effective anti-inflammatory and bactericidal agent. Onion is a natural antiseptic that quickly destroys pathogenic bacteria and has an expectorant effect, softening mucus accumulated in the bronchi.

An effective and natural syrup or decoction for children’s coughs is prepared from these ingredients in the right combination.. During epidemics of colds and viruses, traditional medicine specialists even recommend eating a slice of onion a day to protect the body from infections.Honey, among other things, gives the medicine a pleasant taste and accelerates the release of onion juice.

Interesting. Honey is considered an effective remedy in the fight against insomnia. A glass of warm milk or tea with honey can quickly and gently calm a person’s nervous system and set the body up for healthy sleep. Honey also eliminates the symptoms of seasonal allergies, acting as a natural vaccine for the body. Thanks to the constant use of the product, the human body develops an immune response to pollen, as a result of which it ceases to be an irritant.

Indications for use

Indications for the use of medicine based on honey and onions are colds in children, accompanied by wet and dry cough.

A dry cough is characterized by suffocating attacks and the inability to cough up mucus. For children, such a cough brings significant discomfort, it causes pain in the lungs and dries out the mucous membrane of the child’s throat, injuring it.

Interesting. Onions can be used as a pain reliever for wasp and bee stings. To do this, rub onion juice into the bite site. Also in many countries, onion vegetables are used in folk medicine to treat abscesses and blisters.

A wet cough is characterized by an expectorant property. The danger of such a cough is that the child’s body cannot always remove the mucus accumulated in the bronchi completely, so a normal cough can develop into bronchitis and even pneumonia.

Onions and honey help with both dry and wet coughs: with dry coughs, the medicine softens and soothes the child’s injured throat, softens and removes mucus from the bronchi. For a wet cough, the mixture helps the body completely get rid of phlegm, has an antiviral, antibacterial and restorative effect.

Onions and honey are also used to treat:

• runny nose;
• metabolic disorders;
• blood pressure problems;
• inflammatory processes;
• vascular diseases.

At what age can children be given onion-based cough medicines?

Traditional medicine experts recommend not treating coughs with onions and honey in children of the first year of life and giving preference to pharmaceutical preparations for infants - they have a gentle composition and microdoses of synthetic nutrients.

Children from one to three years are also quite sensitive to the components of the elixir, so it is recommended to use recipes with onions that involve heat treatment of the vegetable, for example, decoctions.

After three years, the drugs are used without restrictions. However, consultation with a doctor before using folk remedies is mandatory in any case.

Onion and cough honey recipes for children

Let's look at specific recipes that are suitable for treatment child's cough.

Honey with onion juice

Ingredients:

• onion - 2 pcs. (small);
• buckwheat honey

Preparation:

1. Peel several onions.
2. Grind the vegetable on a grater or blender.
3. Squeeze out 5-6 tbsp. l. juice
4. Onion juice is mixed with honey in a 1:1 ratio.

Onions with honey and milk

This recipe is suitable for those children who refuse honey. The product uses milk, which significantly softens the taste of the cough medicine.

Ingredients:

• onion - 0.5 kg;
• buckwheat honey - 100 g;
• milk - 1 l.

Preparation:

1. Peel and cut the turnips.
2. Fill the slices with milk.
3. Cook the mixture over low heat until the onion becomes soft.
4. Add honey.
5. The mixture is thoroughly stirred.

Apple, onion, carrot and honey

This unusual mixture can also relieve a child’s cough.

Ingredients:

• apple - 1 pc.;
• onion - 1 pc.;
• carrots - 1 pc.;
• buckwheat honey - 2 tbsp. l.

Preparation:

1. Grate the apple, onion and carrots on a fine grater; all ingredients should be approximately the same weight.
2. Add honey.
3. Mix thoroughly.

How to treat children's cough with onions

Let's consider the schemes for using each of the drugs that we described above.

Honey with onion juice is given to children 1 tbsp. l. 3-4 times a day. The elixir is not swallowed, but slowly dissolved in the mouth, so it envelops the mucous membrane and flows into the lower respiratory tract. After drinking honey with onions, children are advised not to drink or eat for half an hour.

It is recommended to give the child 1 tbsp of onion and honey every hour.

Children are given 1 tsp of apple, onion, carrot and honey. warm 4-5 times a day.

The duration of such “treatment” should not exceed a week. If after 6-7 days of therapy the child’s cough symptoms have not gone away, consult a doctor immediately!

Side effects and contraindications

The benefits of onions and honey for a child’s body are undeniable, and the recipes themselves have been tested by many generations. However, there are a number of pathologies in which the elixir can harm the child’s body.

Onion treatment and honey is not recommended if the child suffers from:

• diseases of the liver and digestive system;
• diabetes mellitus;
• allergy to components.

Children of the first year of life should not be treated with onion elixir.

Reviews from pediatricians

We studied the opinions of pediatricians about the treatment of children's cough with onions and honey. All doctors agree on the effectiveness of the product, but strongly recommend not to neglect consultations with doctors.

Mikhail, Samara: “Of course, one cannot deny the beneficial effects of onions and honey on a child’s body, including products that help get rid of a cough, but self-medicating a child is dangerous. I advise all parents to first go to the doctor so that he listens and looks at the little patient to see if he has wheezing in the bronchi. The doctor will determine the nature of the cough and tell you whether the medicine made from honey and onions is suitable as a treatment for the child.”

Arina, Nizhnevartovsk: “As a pediatrician, I cannot recommend treating children’s cough exclusively with traditional methods, but it is a fact that onion-honey remedies are of great benefit. Such recipes certainly have a supportive, restorative and even mucolytic effect. In any case, the elixir can be given as an additional drug for treating cough.”

Margarita, Morozovsk: “My mother treated me with onions and honey, now I also treat my children with this remedy, despite the fact that I myself am a certified pediatrician. The fact is that I give the onion-honey preparation immediately after the first signs of cough appear in the child. If you don’t let the disease progress, don’t lead it to bronchitis or pneumonia, and immediately start treatment promptly, you’ll be able to limit yourself to folk recipes. But you must remember that the responsibility for your child’s health lies with you, and do not forget the importance of a qualified examination by a pediatrician.”

Conclusion

Recipes based on honey and onions are effective in combating children's cough. There are many variations of the medicine: it is boiled or prepared from a raw vegetable, additional ingredients are added to it (milk, apple, carrots, garlic and others), and simple two-component elixirs are also prepared.The average duration of therapy with this folk remedy is 5-7 days.