Onion (cooked)
Sweet when cooked, pungent raw; grounding cooked, stimulating raw.
reduces Vataincreases Pittaneutral for Kapha
Ayurvedic properties
- Rasa (taste): sweet (cooked), pungent (raw)
- Virya (energy): heating
- Guna (qualities): heavy (cooked)
Classical sources
- Charaka Samhita — Sutrasthana 27 — Shaka varga (vegetables)
- Bhavaprakasha — Nighantu — Shaka varga
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