Home made Remedies- Tomato

Tomatoes, which are actually a fruit and not a vegetable, are loaded with all kinds of health benefits for the body. They are in fact, a highly versatile health product and due to their equally versatile preparation options, there's really no reason to neglect the tomato as part of a healthy diet.

One of the most well known tomato eating benefit is its' Lycopene content. Lycopene is a vital anti-oxidant that helps in the fight against cancerous cell formation as well as other kinds of health complications and diseases. 

While other fruits and vegetables do contain this necessary health ingredient, no other fruit or vegetable has the high concentration of Lycopene that the tomato takes pride in.

• Cancers such as prostate cancer, cervical cancer, colon cancer, rectal cancer, and cancers of the stomach, mouth, pharynx, and esophagus have all been proven to be staved off by high levels of Lycopene. 
• Health benefits of tomato include eye sight, good gut health, low hypertension, diabetes, skin problems and urinary tract infections. 
• Daily consumption of tomato provides a great boost to health apart from improving the flavour of food. 
• It is a rich source of vitamins and minerals and exerts a protective effect against cardiovascular diseases. The lycopene in tomato prevents serum lipid oxidation, thus exerting protective effect against cardiovascular diseases.
• It also improves eye health and prevents hypertension and urinary tract infections.
• A single tomato can provide about 40% of daily vitamin C requirement. Vitamin C is a natural antioxidant which acts against cancer-causing free radicals. It also contains abundant vitamin A and potassium as well as iron. Potassium plays a vital role in maintaining nerve health and iron is essential for maintaining normal blood health. Vitamin K which is essential in blood clotting and controls bleeding is abundant in tomatoes.
• The two main components of tomatoes, coumaric acid and chlorogenic acid, fight against nitrosamines which are produced in the body and are the main carcinogens found in cigarette smoke.
• Vitamin A, present in tomato aids, aids in improving vision, preventing night-blindness and macular degeneration.
• Tomato keeps the digestive system healthy by preventing both constipation and diarrhoea. It also prevents jaundice and effectively removes toxins from the body.
• Daily consumption of tomatoes reduces the risk of developing hypertension.
• Daily consumption of tomatoes reduces the oxidative stress in type 2 diabetes.
• Tomato aids in maintaining healthy teeth, bones, hair and skin. Topical application of tomato juice is known to cure severe sunburns. Daily consumption of tomato protects the skin against UV-induced erythema. Tomato ranks high in preparation of anti-aging products.
• Regular consumption of tomato can also dissolve gallstones.
• Tomato is a good blood purifier.
• Tomato helps in cases of congestion of the liver (protects the liver from cirrhosis) as well as for dissolving gallstones.
• Tomato is a natural antiseptic therefore it can help protect against infection.
• Tomato juice is used as best energy drink.
• Tomato and Tomto jucie is found to be the best treatment for various kind of female problems.
• Drinking daily tomato juice or eating Tomato by a person increases his/ her weight in one month definately.
• Eating Tomato pieces with the help of sugar can reduce the problem of indigestion.
• Drinking morning and evening the tomato juice can reduces the red spots on body, don't make skin dry, hence purifies the blood.

Precaution:

• Never consume tomato as medicine for patients of Kidney stone and cold fever.
• Those who have allergy of tomato also should not consume tomato.
• Those suffering from diarrohea should not eat tomato.