How many knew "Rasam" is a implicit medicine??

So it's health benefits are

-Prevents Constipation and Promoted better digestion.
-Relieves the symptoms of Cold and Flu.
- Has Anti-inflammatory properties
-Anti pyretic and mild antidote
-Appetizer
- Store of many Vitamins and Minerals
- Power house of vitamin C
- Hot rasam is a Anti depressant
Traditional Rasam were made with not with just tamarind and tomatoes

- Lemon Rasam
- Rasam without chilies
- Horse gram Rasam
-Rasam without tamarind
- Rasam without dal
- Rasam using herbs and flowers ( Neem flowers is quite famous)
- Rasam using vegetables (Drumsticks, Pudina,onion )
- Rasam using fruits (mostly citrus variety, pineapple and apple)

My grandmother use to make rasam with citron fruit and it's leaves for garnishing
- Herbal rasam ( Pipalli/Thipilli /Piper longum)

- Rasam using greens ( Brahmi / Methi)

- Spice only Rasam (Garlic /DryGinger)
-"Rasa" is a Sanskrit word which translates to,' Taste'

- Sense of Taste is a key diagnostic parameters for doctors

- Age old doctors will first examine the patient tongue colour and enquirie for his tasting ability
-Ayurvedic science of medicine in its all aspects, uses rasa (taste) of the substance as the primary diagnostic tool
- So in many ways rasam was sickness predictor

-It is used to assess the healthy state of family members

-The person who consumes little rasam or find rasam tasteless for particular day

It's a indicator to grandmas that he is going to fall sick soon ☺️
Position of rasam in our cuisine too is beneficial greatly and has profound health benefits

Ancient food has below sequence
A sweet food(payasam)-sour and salt (sambar-rasam-curry)-Pungent,Bitter and Astringent(buttermilk-pickle)-followed by Betel leaves and Nut(astringent)
- Rasam is a balanced food suitable to person with any disease history. Sick to a year old baby

- Rationale even new born is fed with rasam rice with turn dal mix

The new babe which has been managing with liquid food has very little digestive ability to digest solid food
Rasam tunes it's digestive fire and aids the growing babe for solid food digestion

Rasam basically is spice and mineral house, so called "super food " of the West
Rasam not just helps your physical body it's helps even your mental soul

Tomatoes undergo a biological process while rasam is cooked so that the

Lycopene and carotenoid gets formed to medicinal mixture
The spices in our rasam ensure your mental reasoning capacity is nourished and enables positive thinking attitude

Lycopene and carotenoid mixture is key antioxidant primary pharmaceutical ingredient of widely available antidepressants
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