Basic introduction:
1. Ginger is the fresh rhizome of Zingiber officinale, a perennial herb of Zingiberaceae, with a height of 40 ~ 100 cm. Alias are ginger root, Bailayun, Lycium barbarum, wild lily, Yan Liang Xiaozi, fresh ginger and honey-baked ginger. The rhizome of ginger (dried ginger), cortex Phellodendri (ginger bark) and leaves (Jiang Ye) can all be used as medicine. Ginger has the functions of dispersing, stopping vomiting and relieving cough in traditional Chinese medicine.
2. Momordica charantia (scientific name: Momordica charantia) belongs to the genus Momordica in Cucurbitaceae, which is an annual climbing herb with many branches; The stems and branches are pilose, the leaf contour is ovoid, kidney-shaped or nearly round, the top is green, the back is light green, the veins are densely puberulent, the veins are palmate, monoecious, the fruit is spindle-shaped or cylindrical, and the flowering and fruiting period is 5- 10 month.
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The main value of bitter gourd:
1, nutrition
Clearing heat and detoxicating: Bitter gourd can relieve the heat in the heart and eliminate toxins in the body. The best way to eat bitter gourd is cold salad. Cold salad can well retain the vitamins contained in bitter gourd. If stir-frying is used, these vitamins will be lost in the process of stir-frying, and the content of oil after stir-frying is relatively high, so people will consume more oil after eating, which cannot play a role in reducing fire.
Beauty and skin rejuvenation: Eating bitter gourd often can enhance the vitality of cortex and make skin tender and fit. Pouring fresh bitter gourd juice or decoction is a good supplementary diet therapy for liver fire, epigastric pain and damp-heat dysentery; Fresh bitter gourd mashed and applied externally to treat carbuncle and furuncle; Children are prone to prickly heat in summer. Slice the bitter gourd and try to wipe the prickly heat, which can be cured as soon as possible. Bitter gourd can dissipate heat and relieve summer heat by boiling water or cooking food.
Lowering blood sugar: mussel bitter melon soup is the top grade of lowering blood sugar. Bitter gourd crude extract contains substances similar to insulin, which has obvious hypoglycemic effect. Chinese medicine believes that bitter gourd is sweet, bitter and cold, which can clear away heat, relieve annoyance and quench thirst; Clam meat is salty and cold, which can clear away heat and nourish yin, quench thirst and induce diuresis. The combination of the two can clear away heat and nourish yin, and is suitable for diabetic patients with insufficient stomach yin and excessive heat.
Nourishing blood and liver: bitter gourd tastes bitter, cold when it is born and warm when it is cooked. Raw food can clear away heat, relieve summer heat and purge fire, and clear away heat and trouble; Cooked food can nourish blood and liver, moisten spleen and kidney, clear away heat and relieve fatigue, clear heart and improve eyesight, and benefit qi and strengthen yang. But eat bitter gourd should also be careful not to damage the spleen and lungs. Although the weather is hot in summer, people should not eat too much bitter food, and it is best to mix it with spicy food (such as pepper, pepper, onion and garlic), so as to avoid bitterness and help to replenish lung qi. ?
2. Medicinal use
Bitter gourd roots, vines, leaves and fruits: bitter and cold. Clearing away heat and toxic materials and improving eyesight. Used for heatstroke, fever, toothache, diarrhea, dysentery and bloody stool.
Drug-mediated Shrugging: Fruits treat polydipsia, red-eye pain, carbuncle, erysipelas and malignant ulcers. Flowers treat stomach gas pain and eye pain; Ye Zhidan fire poison, toxic sore poison, bayberry sore poison, scabies poison.
Keno medicine Annenggeqi: leaves and vines treat hepatitis, fever, polydipsia, summer heat and dysentery; Snakes and insects bite "Keno medicine" for external treatment.
She medicine Bitter Melon: Bitter Melon is mashed and squeezed to cure heat dysentery.
Treat cholera vomiting, diarrhea, phlegm dysentery and acute enteritis.
Dai Medicine Malan (Western Dai): Fruit leaves treat chronic diseases, frequent thirst, sore throat and furuncle, Yunnan Medical Records, Banna Dai Medical Records, Dai Medical Records.
Step 3: Eat
Bitter melon tastes bitter and sweet. Mature pulp and aril are mainly used as vegetables. Momordica charantia will be processed into a health drink when it comes into the market in summer, which can be drunk all year round. There are bitter gourd honey juice drinks, summer drinks, instant health drinks, health drinks made of bitter gourd and pumpkin or garlic, kumquat, balsam pear tea, bitter gourd milk and so on. As long as the bitter taste is eliminated, more people will get used to drinking it. Bitter gourd pickle is a product pickled with low concentration salt and fresh bitter gourd as raw materials. Preserved bitter gourd, preserved bitter gourd and sugar boiled.
reference data
People's Health Network-White-collar summer health? Supplementing four kinds of nutrition, relieving summer heat and nourishing