1, nourishing blood and liver bitter gourd tastes bitter, cold at birth and warm at maturity. 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, heat and detoxification bitter gourd is a cold food, which can vent the boredom in the heart and eliminate toxins in the body. Bitter gourd can cool and dispel fire after eating, and has a good auxiliary treatment effect on aphtha, dry throat, sore throat and furuncle caused by toxic fire upwelling. 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.
3, hypoglycemic mussel bitter melon soup is the top grade of hypoglycemic. 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.
4, beauty and rejuvenation Eating bitter gourd can enhance the vitality of the cortex and make the 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; Bitter gourd contains a lot of cellulose, which can promote intestinal peristalsis and defecation. Treatment of carbuncle and furuncle by mashing fresh bitter gourd and external application. 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.