Healthy Food Onion Processes Anti-Parasitic Property

By Kyle J. Norton

A parasite lived on or in a host is an organism that gets its food at the expense of the host. Parasites are also completely dependent on the host for survivals, including lice, ringworms, pinworms, and scabies. 

Believe it or not, over 70 percent of parasites are not visible to the human eye, such as the malarial parasite, However, some parasites such as worms can reach many meters in length.

Most common parasites can be classified into 3 main types

* Protozoa also known as single-celled eukaryotes in the formal term, is an organism that only can multiply, or divide, within the host but also often forms group into plant-like algae and fungus-like water molds and slime molds.

* Helminths are types of worm parasites including roundworm, pinworm, trichina spiralis, tapeworm, and fluke.

* Ectoparasites are parasites that can live outside the host such as lice and fleas.

Parasite infection can cause varying symptoms, depending on the severity and types of parasite. Most common symptoms are skin bumps or rashes, weight loss, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and vomiting, aches and pains, fatigue and tiredness and general feeling unwell.

Conventionally, treatments are total depending on the types of parasitic infection, For example, medicine such as praziquantel (Biltricide) can cause the tapeworms to detach from the gut, become dissolved, and then pass out of the body.

Treatments are effective in most cases if the parasite is identified.

The onion is a plant in the genus Allium, belonging to the family Alliaceae, a close relation of garlic. It is often called the "king of vegetables" because of its pungent taste and found in a large number of recipes and preparations spanning almost the totality of the world's cultures. 

Depending on the variety, an onion can be sharp, spicy, tangy, pungent, mild or sweet.

On finding a potential compound for the treatment of infectious diseases, researchers examined the anti-parasitic activity of dichloromethane extracts of Allium sativum (garlic) and Allium cepa (onion) bulbs on Trypanosoma brucei brucei and Leishmania tarentolae.

According to the chemical analysis, the abundance of several sulfur secondary metabolites in garlic and one (zwiebelane) in the onion extract killed both types of parasites efficiently.

Futhermore, both extracts also inhibited the Trypanosoma brucei trypanothione reductase irreversibly.

The combinations of garlic and onion with common trypanocidal and leishmanicidal drugs exerted a synergistic effect in 50% of all cases.

Moreover, by additional differentiation of the chemical compound in both extracts, researchers found that the efficacy of garlic and onion against the tested parasites may be related to the amount and the profile of sulfur-containing compounds through inhibiting certain materials in the parasitic cells.

Based on the results, researchers wrote in the final report, " It is most likely that vital substances inside the parasitic cell, like trypanothione reductase, are inhibited through disulfide bond formation between SH groups of vital redox compounds and sulfur-containing secondary metabolites".

Taken altogether, onion may be considered a remedy for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases caused by parasites, pending to the confirmation of the larger sample size and multicenter human study.

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Author Biography
Kyle J. Norton (Scholar, Master of Nutrition, All right reserved)
Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published online, including worldwide health, ezine articles, article base, health blogs, self-growth, best before it's news, the karate GB daily, etc.,.
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Sources
(1) Anti-Parasitic Activities of Allium sativum and Allium cepa against Trypanosoma b. brucei and Leishmania tarentolae by Krstin S1, Sobeh M2, Braun MS3, Wink M. (PubMed)
(2) Tulbaghia violacea and Allium ursinum Extracts Exhibit Anti-Parasitic and Antimicrobial Activities by Krstin S1, Sobeh M2, Braun MS3, Wink M. (PubMed)