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Avoiding heat- Drinking tomato juice in the morning keeps the body cool.
Drinking tomato juice in the morning scares the heat. It is beneficial to keep drinking tomato juice in weakness. Eating foods high in anti- oxidants prevents diseases. Anti- oxidants are found in tomatoes and carrots. Tomato is a storehouse of power and beauty.
Consuming foods in their natural state gives more benefits. It is more beneficial to eat tomatoes, carrots, and radish raw only.
Salad- Tomato, carrot, radish, cucumber, onion, etc., cut whatever is available, coriander, mint, black salt, lime, fresh curd instead of lime, add raw coconut, jaggery, or honey in place of onion to sweeten. This salad should be eaten at lunch. To get the maximum benefit from tomato, eat it in salad.
Chutney- Make a chutney by grinding tomato, green coriander leaves, two cloves of garlic salt and eating it during meals of the day, it gives a good appetite, food is digested quickly, minerals and vitamins are found. Tomato purifies the blood.
The properties of buttermilk and tomato are similar. Tomato is both food and

medicine. If tomatoes are not eaten because they are sour, then add sugar. Lycopene is found in red-yellow-colored fruits and vegetables. Lycopene is found in abundance in tomatoes. Lycopene kills free radicals. Lycopene is a very powerful antioxidant, which is more effective than vitamin ‘C’ and prevents serious diseases, such as cancer, and is beneficial in cancer of every organ.
Lycopene helps in the smooth functioning the of lungs, heart, and stomach. Lycopene accelerates the functioning of the immune system and slows down the progression of degenerative diseases. Do not eat tomatoes raw for the antioxidants obtained from tomatoes to go directly into the blood. Cook tomatoes and eat them. Eat tomatoes regularly in your diet and avoid deadly diseases. Tomato is beneficial in every prostate cancer. Tomatoes are rich in copper, which increases the red cells present in the blood. Tomato increases appetite and is a power booster. The iron in tomato is twice that of milk. By eating a large, fresh red tomato regularly, a person is saved from many diseases.
Lime is found more in tomatoes than in other fruits and vegetables. Lime makes bones strong. To remove weakness of teeth and bones. Tomato consumption is useful. Iron is found in very high amounts in tomatoes. Iron is required daily during pregnancy. That’s why the consumption of tomatoes is beneficial. Tomatoes contain five times more iron than eggs. Drinking a glass of tomato juice removes anemia and increases blood pressure.
Dark spots on the face, freckles, and acne-
100 grams of tomato juice, 100 grams of carrot juice, 100 grams of spinach juice, 50 grams of honey, or as needed, by mixing all of them regularly in the morning on an empty stomach, skin spots, acne. The face becomes like a tomato. Beyond this use, all cosmetics are completely toxic. Cut red tomatoes, sprinkle ground turmeric and rub the face thrice daily. Wash off after 15 minutes.

Beauty enhancer-
Mix a few drops of lemon juice in tomato juice and apply it on the face and wash the face after 15 minutes by rubbing it. The face will become clean, soft and shiny. To remove dark spots on the face, soak cotton in tomato juice and rub it on the scars. The dark spots will clear up.
Asthma-
Tomatoes increase the efficiency of the lungs. For those suffering from any respiratory disease, tomatoes are beneficial for them.
Cold, cough-
(1) Make tomato soup by adding three cloves, a little ginger, and drinking it three times a day, cold and cough are cured.
(2) Drink hot tomato, and ginger soup twice daily.
Digestive power-
Tomatogivesstrengthtothelarge intestine, removes the wounds of the eyes, and improves digestion. Constipation is not caused by continuous consumption of tomatoes and diarrhea is cleared; The trouble goes away.

The stomach remains clean. Keeps us healthy by taking out the poison of the stomach. In Europe and America, tomato juice is given to a child who is breastfed.
Deworming-
By eating hungry stomachs twice a day in the morning and evening, adding ground black pepper, and salt on red tomatoes for 21 days kills stomach worms.
Diabetes-
Tomato is very beneficial for diabetes. Tomato’s sourness reduces the amount of sugar in the body. The passing of sugar in the urine gradually decreases.

Authors

  • Mihir Gupta

    Do you know a punjabi who is not a foodie... well I would call
    Myself a health aficionado . Food has an enthusiastic effect on me . Being the younger sibling with various health conditions, I was nurtured in an environment of overprotectiveness. Their concern was rooted in my lower immunity and frequent illnesses and my mother always emphasized a healthy diet, instilling in me the belief that "you are what you eat”.
    This belief was put to the test when I was the only one in my family to contract COVID-19. The isolation was challenging but became a pivotal moment for self-care and introspection. During this period, I leaned heavily on the wisdom imparted by my mother, who shared recipes for nutritious green juices and herbal teas, all sourced from our kitchen garden. I meticulously journaled this experience, recording each meal and its impact on my health.

  • Breathing is not always automatic. I learnt that the hard way.
    Even now, I can recall the harrowing memory from when I was 4: 3 AM, my chest tightening faster than I could explain. My parents rushing to find the nebuliser.
    For most kids, a medicine cabinet is usually a background object. Not for me, though. Ours had a schedule. Steroids. Inhalers. Steam. Nebulisers.
    My missed school days were no longer measured by absences, but by how long it took for my lungs to recuperate. This illness exiled me from the very body my childhood self had once taken for granted.
    But alongside the treatment, I began to notice smaller rituals. Rituals that made the illness feel a little less consuming. The nushkas (home remedies) were endless: adrak wali chai, honey stirred into turmeric or the steam inhalation my mom transformed into a myriad of herbs. My mother never called it nutritional science, but she knew what to make and when.
    When “healthy food” came to my mind, I pictured imported products, expensive superfoods and products in a vocabulary my childhood self could not decode.
    But I looked at my own kitchen.
    Lentils simmering, ginger crushing, yoghurt culturing. Ingredients so familiar, yet so valuable. The more I googled, the more I realised health shouldn’t be hidden behind imported deliveries. Sometimes, it can begin with what’s already waiting on the kitchen counter.
    This realisation became the foundation of Food Thy Medicine for me.
    I met my co- founder in the waiting room of a pulmonologist's clinic, where our shared routines of inhalers and nebulisers made the idea feel less like a project but a conversation we had to continue. Thus, I began contributing to this project during the summers after Grades 9 and 10. What began as an interest in food and health became deeply personal: a way to turn years of dependence on doctors, prescriptions and steroids into a desire to understand the body better. As a co-author, I helped build a platform that makes nutrition information practical, not glamorous.
    The research for my AI ensured isn’t built for a perfect kitchen, rather the half- empty fridge, rushed day and leftovers that people ask “What can we do with this?” It turns familiar ingredients into realistic meal ideas and our research explains what those ingredients contribute nutritionally.
    The point was never to make food mythical but to make useful information feel less daunting and more reliable. It does not replace doctors or medicine: and it shouldn’t. I still take my prescribed medicine. I still live with asthma. But the illness taught me that care doesn’t begin and end at a clinic door and may be found in the ordinary decisions at home. What we cook, what we keep in the fridge and how we care for ourselves between appointments.
    I can’t control every flare up. But I can keep asking better questions, and help more people see possibility in the food around them.

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