Traditional Chinese medicine believes that loofah is sweet and cool, and has the functions of clearing away heat and summer heat, detoxifying and cooling blood, dispelling wind and resolving phlegm, moistening skin and beautifying face, dredging meridians, defecating, and promoting blood circulation and milk ejection. It can also be used for treating fever, polydipsia, excessive phlegm, asthma, cough, intestinal wind, hemorrhoid and leakage, metrorrhagia, leucorrhea, sores and swelling, and galactorrhea. So what is the specific efficacy and function of loofah?

1, anti-scurvy: Luffa has a high content of vitamin C, 8 mg per 100 grams, which can be used to fight scurvy and prevent various vitamin C deficiencies. Medicinal value of>& gt goose eggs

2, brain-strengthening beauty: because of the high content of vitamin B in loofah, it is beneficial to the brain development of children and the brain health of middle-aged and elderly people; The juice of towel gourd stem has the special function of keeping skin elastic, and can beautify and wrinkle. Luffa contains B vitamins to prevent skin aging and vitamin C to whiten skin, which can protect skin, eliminate plaque and make skin white and tender. It is a rare beauty product, so Luffa juice is called "beauty water". It is also helpful for women to eat more loofah to regulate irregular menstruation.

3. Anti-virus and anti-allergy: The extract of Luffa has obvious preventive effect on Japanese encephalitis virus, and an anti-allergic substance-Xiegen alkyd is also extracted from tissue culture solution of Luffa, which has strong anti-allergic effect.

4, treatment of sinusitis: dried loofah baked in an iron pot, ground into fine powder. Take 6 grams each time, and take it with warm water on an empty stomach in the morning for 8 days.

There are still many functions and functions of loofah. Bian Xiao, the following Sanjiu Health Network, recommends several recipes for loofah dietotherapy for reference only.