Tomatoes are a common food, but they also play a significant role in treating diseases and other conditions. Below are ten therapeutic effects for your reference.
1. Treating skin diseases:
Mash fresh, ripe tomatoes after peeling and removing the seeds, and apply the pulp to the affected area 2-3 times a day to treat fungal and infectious skin diseases.
2. Beauty and anti-aging:
Mash fresh, ripe tomatoes to extract the juice, add a little sugar, and apply it to your face daily. This can make the skin delicate and smooth, with excellent beauty and anti-aging effects.
3. Cancer prevention:
Because tomatoes are not only nutritious but also have strong effects for clearing heat and detoxifying, and inhibiting pathological changes, eating 1-2 fresh, ripe tomatoes raw daily can help prevent cancer and assist in its treatment.
4. Treating high blood pressure:
Every morning, select 1-2 fresh, ripe tomatoes and eat them on an empty stomach after dipping them in sugar. This has a significant effect in lowering blood pressure.
5. Treating anemia:
Eat one tomato and one apple along with 15 grams of sesame seeds at one time, once or twice a day. Long-term adherence can treat anemia.
6. Treating ulcers:
Patients with mild peptic ulcers can drink a mixture of half a cup of tomato juice and half a cup of potato juice, once in the morning and once in the evening, for 10 consecutive days to heal the ulcer.
7. Treating hepatitis:
Add one tablespoon of diced tomatoes, half a tablespoon each of minced celery and minced carrots, and half a tablespoon of lard to boiling congee. Cook until done, add salt and monosodium glutamate to taste, and consume. This is extremely effective for treating hepatitis.
8. Preventing heatstroke:
Slice 1-2 tomatoes, add a little salt or sugar, and simmer into a hot soup to drink to prevent heatstroke.
9. Reducing high fever:
Mix half a cup of tomato juice with half a cup of watermelon juice and drink it once every hour to reduce a high fever.
10. Treating gum bleeding:
Eat washed tomatoes as a fruit continuously for half a month to cure gum bleeding.
However, there are many considerations when eating tomatoes, as tomatoes of different colors have different effects on the body:
Those with a deep red color are rich in lycopene, which is very beneficial for preventing cancer.
Orange tomatoes have less lycopene but a higher content of carotene.
Pink tomatoes contain a small amount of lycopene but very little carotene.
Light yellow tomatoes contain a small amount of carotene but no lycopene.
If you need to meet your vitamin C requirements, any type of tomato will do; the key is to choose fresh, seasonal, and flavorful ones.
If you want to supplement with antioxidant components like lycopene and carotene, you should choose deep red or orange tomatoes, not pink or light yellow ones. Although tomatoes are good, they are not suitable for eating at all times, and some dietary taboos should be understood:
(1) Not suitable to be eaten with cucumbers at the same time.
(2) Not suitable for consumption when taking anticoagulant drugs such as heparin and dicoumarol.
(3) Not suitable for consumption on an empty stomach.
(4) Not suitable for eating unripe tomatoes.
(5) Not suitable for consumption after prolonged cooking/heating.
(6) Contraindicated for consumption when taking neostigmine or galantamine.