Red Onion Tea Benefits: Best Tea for Congestion and Cough

Red Onion tea has amazing antioxidants, helps fight colds, congestion, and coughs. It even contains potential cancer fighting properties while helping lower blood sugar, blood pressure and reducing inflammation!

Red Onion Tea Benefits

This does not even taste bad and it is filled with so many good benefits! The star ingredient in this tea is obviously the red onion

If you make my red onion tea recipe, and use the ingredients I add to enhance the traditional recipe, you will see how easily this immune boosting tea becomes a staple in your home!

Red onion benefits in tea

Traditionally, it includes, apples, red onion, and cinnamon or ginger, red onion, and cinnamon. It depends on what region of the Dominican Republic you are from.

1. Anitoxidants

Anthocyanins
- Only red or purple onions contain this antioxidant which gives them their distinct color. This antioxidant helps fight inflammation, and protects against type 2 diabetes, cancer, and heart disease.
Quercetin
- This powerful antioxidant may help reduce inflammation, lower blood pressure, improve heart health, have cancer fighting properties, help prevent brain disorders such as Alzheimer and dementia.

2. Vitamins

High in Vitamin C,
Packed with B vitamins
Great source of potassium

3. Prebiotics

Onions are filled with prebiotics and fiber which help strengthen and promote gut health and boost immunity
prebiotics also encourage the production of probiotics naturally through improving general gut health

Healthline has a great article with more detailed information on the health benefits of onions.

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Best tea for congestion and cough

Truth be told, growing up, and in my current household, we drink this tea regularly for its immune boosting benefits.

We definitely up the dosage, though, when any one of us is dealing with any kind of cold, flu, or viral cough. 2-3 days of drinking 2-3 cups a day and we feel better so quickly! I mean i’m honestly shocked every time it works at how quickly we are relieved!

Best tea for chest congestion

Red onion tea has proven time and time again in my life to be an effective home remedy for chest congestion, as its sulfuric properties can help loosen phlegm.

Its anti-inflammatory properties may reduce lung inflammation that prevents more mucus production.

red onion tea benefits for congestion and cough

Best tea for cough

Homemade onion syrup is one of the more popular home remedies for dry cough, making the red onion tea one of the best teas for coughs.

Again the powerful anti-inflammatory antioxidants shine bright in soothing and reducing coughs. If you don’t know how to make red onion tea, then this is just the recipe for you! So easy, and comes together quickly once you have all of your ingredients.