Chinese medicine believes that bitter gourd tastes bitter, but it is not unpalatable. Born cold, cooked and warm, non-toxic. Life has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, quenching thirst, clearing heart and improving eyesight.
Modern medicine believes that bitter gourd has the functions of lowering blood sugar, preventing and treating cancer, and clearing away heat and toxic materials. Bitter gourd contains insulin-like substances, which can lower blood sugar. Diabetic patients eat bitter gourd, which has an auxiliary therapeutic effect.