Current location - Health Preservation Learning Network - Health preserving recipes - What is the medicinal value of loofah?
What is the medicinal value of loofah?
1, anti-scurvy: Luffa has a high content of vitamin C, which can be used to fight scurvy and prevent various vitamin C deficiencies.

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.

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. Luffa seed is also called black cow seed. Bitter people are toxic to cold, and sweet people are nontoxic. According to "Edible Materia Medica" records, bitter seeds, supervisor flooding, swollen face and limbs, making people vomit. Sweet people can relieve cough, treat heart heat, benefit waterways, regulate heart and lungs, and treat ascaris lumbricoides.

5, loofah can get loofah, also known as loofah tendon, flat and sweet, non-toxic, into the liver, stomach and lungs. Its efficacy is regulating qi and dredging collaterals, and it can be used to treat chest and rib pain, muscle and bone pain and swelling and pain of breast carbuncle caused by qi stagnation and blood stasis. It can cool blood and stop bleeding, and can treat building collapse, leakage and bloody stool. Pass milk, but cure milk.

6. When the melon grows vigorously, take the stout plant and cut it from the near root, insert it into the bottle, and continuously squeeze the juice from the loofah vine. Luo Tianshui, a traditional Chinese medicine, is thick and slightly green, and can be used to treat lung pain, lung flaccidity, cough and headache, alcoholism and so on.

Extended data:

Nutritional value of towel gourd;

1, Luffa is mild, contains interferon inducer, can stimulate human body to produce interferon, and has antiviral, anticancer, diuretic and heat-clearing effects. Therefore, it can be used to treat edema.

2, loofah is sweet, cool, and enters the liver and stomach. Has the effects of clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, cooling blood, removing toxic substances, relieving summer heat, relieving restlessness, dredging collaterals and expelling wind. Can be used for treating fever, polydipsia, excessive phlegm, asthma, cough, intestinal wind, hemorrhoid, metrorrhagia, leukorrhagia, bloody stranguria, carbuncle and galactorrhea.

3. Luffa fruit is sweet, cold and non-toxic. Entering the liver and stomach meridian can treat body heat, polydipsia, excessive phlegm, asthma, cough, intestinal wind, hemorrhoids, bleeding, ulcers, breast obstruction, carbuncle and other diseases.

Baidu encyclopedia-loofah