Bitter gourd is cold when it is born and warm when it is ripe. 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.

Momordica charantia will be processed into a health drink when it comes into the market in summer, which can be drunk all year round. There are bitter gourd honey juice drinks, summer drinks, instant health drinks, health drinks made of bitter gourd and pumpkin or garlic, kumquat, balsam pear tea, bitter gourd milk and so on.

As long as the bitter taste is eliminated, more people will get used to drinking it. Bitter gourd pickle is a product pickled with low concentration salt and fresh bitter gourd as raw materials. Preserved bitter gourd, preserved bitter gourd and sugar boiled.

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Efficacy and function of bitter gourd

1, clearing heat and benefiting qi. Momordica charantia has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer-heat, nourishing blood and benefiting qi, invigorating kidney and spleen, nourishing liver and improving eyesight, and has a certain curative effect on dysentery, sores, heatstroke, fever, excessive miliaria, conjunctivitis and other diseases.

2. protect your body. Bitter gourd has the functions of preventing scurvy, protecting cell membrane, preventing atherosclerosis, improving stress ability and protecting heart.

3. Anti-cancer. The effective components in bitter gourd can inhibit the canceration of normal cells and promote the recovery of mutant cells, which has certain anti-cancer effect. . Reduce blood sugar and blood lipid. Has the medicinal and health-care functions of lowering blood sugar and blood fat, resisting tumor, preventing osteoporosis, regulating endocrine, resisting oxidation, resisting bacteria and improving human immunity.

4, beautiful skin. Bitter gourd can moisturize white skin, calm and moisturize skin, especially in hot summer, applying iced bitter gourd slices can immediately relieve skin irritability.

Baidu encyclopedia-bitter gourd

People's Network-The benefits of eating bitter gourd recommend three kinds of bitter gourd drinks.