Here's the salad combination: Bitter melon, tomatoes and red onions. Cut bitter melon into cubes or whatever style you want it and squeeze with salt and rinse with cold water and drain. Cut up the tomatoes the way you want it as well as the red onions. Toss them and combine with salt and sugar and pepper to taste. To make it fancier, for people in the Philippines, you can add tambis if it's in season or raw mango or papaya or pineapple tidbits drained or singkamas and also you can add section of "suha "-(Pomelo). Don't throw the juice of the pineapple, put it in a blender, add a banana, a little condensed milk and lots of ice cubes and you have a smoothie.
In United States, you can add to your bitter melon salad either some strawberries, Indian mangoes or seedless grapes and pineapple chunks. Monitor your Blood Pressure and see how it helps drop down.
Remember that bitter melon brings down triglyceride and cholesterol more so with the tomatoes where it has loads of health benefits. Tomatoes help cases of gout, rheumatism, tuberculosis, high blood pressure, prostate problem and sinus trouble. It has been indicated for cases of congestion of the liver as well as for dissolving gallstone. The nicotinic acid of tomatoes helps reduce cholesterol in the blood, while the vitamin K in tomatoes helps to prevent hemorrhage.
Prostaglandin A is the antihypertensive factor in the onions. Onions helps proteins from massing to form harmful clots. Onions also is useful in lowering blood sugar levels in diabetics and clean out the arteries of "bad cholesterol" that could choke off the flow of blood through the heart. It also helps raise the "good cholesterol”.
This salad is also for beauty as tomatoes also has been reported to help in the removal of pimples in the skin.
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