Doctor Saheb, I am feeling weak, do not prescribe any vitamin or tonic. Doctors or health workers working in hospitals, health posts and clinics must have heard this often. The practice of hastily feeding tonics to children of the family or those who are sick is now increasing everywhere in villages and cities.

Milk would come in sufficient quantity by feeding Zwano Jhol to the pregnant woman. There was also calcium. But now the nose is wrinkled in the name of Zwano. But expensive calcium pills are given with pleasure. 

The customer himself goes to the drug store and says - 'I have a weakness, don't give me any cotton bag.' Especially in rural areas, women use vitamins for any kind of physical ailments, from back pain to heartburn.

Even the women of the city get them from drugstores after saying, 'I am thin, don't give me fattening vitamins'. When conducting health camps in the villages, women often come to the village asking for vitamins even though they have no particular problem. They are also heard to complain that if they are not given vitamins, 'What kind of doctor would he be? Similarly, if the child is given medicine from the market so that he does not eat rice, they think that the nutrition they get from rice and bread is enough. 

Vitamins are essential elements for the human body. Few people know that vitamins are obtained from the food we eat every day and consuming more of them is not beneficial. Few people pay attention to the fact that looks attractive but expensive and unnecessary jhol cannot fulfill it. Pregnant and nursing mothers need more of all nutrients and vitamins. But those essential elements are found in natural foods. However, mothers are satisfied with giving the baby vitamin jhol and tonic. They think that they are nourishing the child, but few people know that the food in the kitchen is the most suitable. 

Hippocrates, the father of modern medical science, said - 'Food is medicine.' People buy pills and vitamins because of the trend of buying medicines and the wrong mindset that only homemade food makes our body weak. Most of us eat tonics from the market to improve our health, ignoring the green vegetables grown in our vegetable gardens and seasonal fruits available in the market. 

Due to many misconceptions and ignorance, even in the villages, the distortion of running behind expensive bags and vitamin needles has spread. The reason for this is the excessive promotion of Horlix, Boost, Bornvita in the media. The government distributes vitamin A capsules for night blindness. But the government does not say 'mewa wa amba khanoo hai'. Wherever enough amla is available, vitamin C pills are sold. 

Before going to the drug store, ask the doctor, 'Do I really need vitamins?' If you understand that you can get all your vitamins from a balanced diet. Similarly, many people buy and eat 'digestive juices' as food. But how many people know that ginger and asafoetida at home can improve digestion? 

Whether those who buy it from thirithiri market for digesting food know, fruit contains all the digestive juices needed to digest food. Nuts are used in different ways in different places. Sometimes the ripe fruit is made into jhol and eaten, sometimes the raw fruit is eaten as a vegetable or pickle. No matter how you eat it, it not only increases the immunity of the body, but also helps to eliminate constipation and indigestion. The amount of vitamin 'C' in fruit is abundant. 

Professor Michael Wolff, an expert on modern digestive juices, conducted a study on Canadian soldiers. Not only did the health of the soldiers he gave them to eat fruit juices containing enough digestive juices improve, but two-thirds of them, who had a lot of colds, did not get colds for a long time.

One-third of the soldiers had a cold, but it was not severe. The professor came to the conclusion from his various researches that if the body has sufficient amount of digestive juice, there is less chance of getting sick due to germs attacking the body. You don't have to go far to get digestive juices. Sufficient elements in fruit are enough to digest food.