Several medical books and journals have described medicinal uses of tomato. These are enumerated as under for ready reference:
- Tomato juice keeps the blood stream alkaline and thus maintain a high resistance to disease. It is very rich in iron and potash salts.
- Half-ripe tomatoes offer an excellent remedy in all sorts of liver troubles. Tomatoes stimulate torpid liver and are very good for dyspepsia, diarrhoea and dysentery.
- Being a rich source of vitamin A, it is a dependable preventive against eye troubles.
- Tomato is a nervine tonic. It is very useful in all sorts of nervous disorders.
- As it is a rich source of vitamin C, it is very valuable in scurvy.
- Half ripe tomatoes are very valuable in summer diarrhoea. But it should be taken with musumbi (lime) juice.
- It is also very effective in dysentery. But it should be taken with garlic and musumbi (lime) juice.
- Half-ripe tomatoes are very useful in hot summer months as it prevents sun-stroke or heat-stroke.
- Tomatoes are usually effective in heartburn, flatulence or indigestion.
- Half-ripe tomatoes are usually given in dyspepsia.
