1, clearing away heat and toxic materials

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.

2. Beauty and 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.

3. Reduce blood sugar

Mussel bitter melon soup is the top grade for 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.

shortcomings

1, bitter gourd is cold and belongs to cold food. Eating too much will aggravate the cold in the body, especially for people with spleen and stomach deficiency, weak constitution and diarrhea, which is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach and easily cause discomfort symptoms such as nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.

2. Bitter melon can stimulate the gastrointestinal tract. If eaten in large quantities for a long time, especially raw, it will easily lead to gastrointestinal discomfort and indigestion, and may also increase the risk of gastrointestinal diseases.

3. Bitter gourd contains oxalic acid, which combines with calcium to form insoluble calcium oxalate, so excessive consumption of bitter gourd will hinder the absorption of calcium in food. Eating a lot for a long time can lead to calcium deficiency.

Extended data:

Bitter gourd is considered to have potential hypoglycemic effect mainly because the active ingredient in bitter gourd extract-bitter gourd has been proved to have hypoglycemic effect. However, there is a premise for this effect, that is, after being purified from bitter gourd, it is effective to take it in large doses. Eating bitter gourd alone has little effect on lowering blood sugar, and it can only be an adjuvant treatment, and we can't expect alternative drugs to lower blood sugar.

It is not only bitter gourd that lowers blood sugar, but also bitter and cold herbs such as Coptis chinensis, Cortex Phellodendri and Scutellariae Radix. Berberine is often used to treat diarrhea, but for obese diabetic patients, doctors sometimes prescribe Berberine-although Berberine is not prescribed in clinical guidelines for diabetes treatment.

In addition, it is said that bitter gourd is a hypoglycemic food, to some extent, because bitter gourd, pumpkin and other foods have low sugar content and high cellulose content, which does not mean that they can lower blood sugar. It's just that they don't raise blood sugar as fast as other foods. Therefore, at present, there are no foods that can lower blood sugar, only some foods that make blood sugar rise slowly, that is, foods with low glycemic index.

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