People with diabetes should pay attention to their diet.
Bitter gourd contains a bioactive component that can promote the decomposition of human sugar, similar to insulin, which can decompose excess sugar into energy. Compared with chemical drugs, this hypoglycemic effect of bitter gourd does not damage liver and kidney and has no side effects, so many diabetic patients like to use bitter gourd as the main ingredient of diet therapy.
But through cooking, the hypoglycemic effect of bitter gourd is greatly reduced. Therefore, diabetic patients should mainly eat raw food when using bitter gourd for treatment or health care. The general practice is to dry the bitter gourd slices and drink tea with warm water every day, which can significantly control blood sugar.
People with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold should not eat bitter gourd excessively.
Chinese medicine believes that the spleen and stomach are warm and afraid of cold, and summer is the weakest time for the human spleen and stomach. Although the bitter taste of bitter gourd can stimulate appetite and help digestion, the medicinal properties of bitter gourd are often cold, and people with deficiency of spleen and stomach will eat too much, which will seriously damage the function of spleen and stomach, not only fail to play a health care role, but also bring trouble to health, so people with poor spleen and stomach must be careful when eating bitter gourd.