Bitter cold and yin injury can cause diarrhea in the body, indigestion in the stomach, or cause the problem of yin deficiency and excessive fire. Generally speaking, it should be noted that dietotherapy is a better symptomatic treatment and cannot be used indiscriminately.
Bitter gourd (scientific name: bitter gourd) is an annual climbing herb with many branches. The stems and branches are pilose, the leaf contour is ovoid, kidney-shaped or nearly round, the top is green, the back is light green, the veins are densely puberulent, the veins are palmate, monoecious, the fruit is spindle-shaped or cylindrical, and the flowering and fruiting period is 5- 10 month.
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.