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Onion (Allium cepa) Medical Uses Streaming Cold/Runny Nose/Spring Cold treatment: Cut and slice an onion in half and add to a glass of freshly boiled water and remove after a few seconds and sip throughout the day after it has cooled. Drink cold or warm. First Sniff up salty water through the nose prior to drinking. Use the cut halves placing on a flat dish allowing it to fill the room with Onion vapours. Ideally, next to your bed while you sleep and inhale the vapours. Headaches reducing: Applying a poultice made from mashed onions and some mashed cabbage leaves placed inside a cabbage leaf to the back of head allowing the chemicals to be absorbed through the skin and the slight fermentation process giving a warming effect will increase the blood flow around the neck to the brain.

Most wine grapes are made from the European species Vitis Vinifera, which is considered to be superior to the American vine species. Grape juice consists of naturally occurring sugars called fructose and glucose. Purple grape juice contains powerful disease-fighting antioxidants, called flavonoids, and contains more antioxidants than other popular fruit and vegetable juices. Recently it was discovered that red grape juice contains compounds that inhibit blood clots. Because of this property grape juice has been recommended for people at risk for heart disease.

It generally grows the best between the latitudes 30° to 50° north and south of the equator There are several coloured grapes ranging from black, purple, red, and light green, with under ripe grapes appearing dark green. The fruit are always hanging off the vine. There are thousands of varieties of vines, The reason for the numerous varieties is that grape vines have a tendency to mutate and cross breed with ease. Most wine grapes are made from the European species Vitis Vinifera, which is considered to be superior to the American vine species.