Analysis:
Luffa is a vegetable that people often eat in summer. According to Compendium of Materia Medica, Luffa is cold and sweet, which can clear away heat and relax bowels, dispel wind and eliminate phlegm, cool blood and detoxify, dredge meridians, activate blood vessels and secrete milk. Can be used for treating diseases such as sinusitis, cough, edema, hematuria, stool, milk obstruction, wet feet, alopecia areata, etc.
According to the research, Luffa contains protein, sugar, vitamins, minerals, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, iron, saponin, xylan and other substances, which is a vegetable with high medicinal and nutritional value. Its medicinal method is as follows:
1, treating sinusitis. Roast the dried loofah in an iron pan and grind it into fine powder. Take 6 grams each time, and take it with warm boiled water on an empty stomach in the morning for 8 days.
2. Treat pharyngitis. Wash the tender loofah, mash it and juice it, and add a proper amount of rock sugar. 65438+ 0 spoon each time, 3 times a day.
3, cure colds and coughs. Bake the loofah seeds, grind them into fine powder, and make honey into pills, 9 grams each time, 3 times a day.
4. Treat allergic asthma. Wash loofah vine, mash and juice. Take 1 spoon each time, three times a day.
5, cure the lack of milk. 60 grams of towel gourd, trotters 1 cooked as a dish, twice a day.
6. Treat bacillary dysentery. The roots, stems and leaves of loofah can be used. After washing, mash and juice, 2 spoonfuls each time, 3 times a day.
7. Treat hematochezia caused by hemorrhoids. Luffa flower 30g, Sophora japonica flower 15g, decocted in water twice a day.
8. Treat renal edema. 30g of loofah sponge and 30g of sunflower plate, decocted in water, daily 1 time.
9. Treat neuralgia. It is also effective to drink loofah water after it is warmed, and the dosage depends on the symptoms, about 100 ml per day, or to mash the leaves and stems of loofah and then apply them to the affected area.
10, treating skin boils. 1 fresh loofah and 1 garlic are mashed and applied to the affected area, and then bandaged with gauze, and the dressing is changed every day 1 time.
1 1, treating beriberi. Squeezing dried towel gourd into garlic juice and putting it in shoes can inhibit foot sweat and the growth of tinea, which has a good effect on beriberi.
12, cure alopecia areata. Slice the old towel gourd, and wipe the hairless part vigorously until it gets hot locally, 2 ~ 3 times a day.
13, beauty. Luffa water contains effective medicinal components such as protein and pectin. After washing your face every night, you can wipe it with loofah water or slice it on your face.
14, treating miliaria. Mash fresh towel gourd leaves, add a little borneol, wrap with gauze, and gently apply it to the affected area, 3 ~ 4 times a day.
15, treating urticaria. 1 Mash fresh towel gourd leaves, squeeze juice, add a little borneol, and apply to the affected area.
16, treating sweaty feet. Burn the old loofah into charcoal, grind it into fine powder, sprinkle it in shoes, and wear it barefoot for half a month.
17, treating chilblain of hands and feet. Burn the old towel gourd into charcoal, grind it into fine powder, mix it with chicken oil, and apply chilblain twice a day.