Contains protein, fat, carbohydrate, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B 1 and vitamin C, as well as saponin, plant mucus, xylose gum, bitter substance of Luffa, citrulline, etc. Every100g contains protein1.4 ~1.5g, fat 0. 1 g, carbohydrate 4.3 ~ 4.5g, crude fiber 0.3 ~ 0.5g, ash 0.5g and calcium18. Ascorbic acid 5 ~ 8 mg.
The fruit of luffa contains triterpenoid saponins: luffacoside A, F, J, K, L, M, (3-O-β-D- hlucopyranosyl hederagenin), 3-o-β-d-glucopyranosyl oleanolic acid (3-o-β-d-glucopyranyl oleanolic acid). In addition, bryonolicacid, an antiallergic substance, was also extracted from the silk tissue culture solution.
Vitamin B 1 contained in towel gourd can prevent skin aging, and vitamin C can whiten skin and other components, protect skin, eliminate plaque and make skin white and tender. Therefore, towel gourd juice is known as "beauty water".
Edible mode
When eating loofah, the skin should be peeled, and it can be cold, fried, cooked, made into soup or juiced for dietotherapy. Wash and slice the towel gourd, blanch it with boiling water, and mix it with sesame oil, soy sauce and vinegar to make it into cold towel gourd. Stir-fried loofah is light and delicious, clearing away heat and promoting diuresis; Burning mushrooms and loofah to replenish qi and blood and dredge meridians; Tomato and loofah soup can clear away heat and toxic substances, and eliminate restlessness, and is especially suitable for eating when you are hot and bored, thirsty and dry throat. Take a proper amount of raw loofah, wash it, juice it, and add honey according to the ratio of 10: 1 to make the raw loofah juice, which has the effects of clearing away heat, relieving cough and resolving phlegm. Peel the loofah, wash it, cut it into pieces, put it in a pot with silver carp, then add ginger and refined salt, first boil it with strong fire, then simmer it slowly until the fish is cooked, and you can make the soup of silver carp loofah. This soup has the effects of warming qi and blood, and promoting milk. Suitable for people with less milk caused by postpartum deficiency of qi and blood; Take 30 grams of towel gourd flower and 0/5 grams of Sophora japonica flower/kloc-. Decoct that above materials together with wat, and removing residues to obtain juice. Daily 1 dose, taken twice, can treat hematochezia. Ancient records
Compendium of Materia Medica: "Loofah, which was unknown before Tang and Song Dynasties, is found in both the north and the south today, thinking it is a regular vegetable. Sow in February, plant seedlings to spread trees and bamboos, or make scaffolding. Its leaves are as big as hollyhock, with many sharp tips and fine burrs, which can be dyed green when juice is taken. Its stems are angular, yellow flowers bloom in June and July, and five flowers appear, slightly like cucurbits, with yellow petals. Its melon is about an inch long, one or two feet long, or even three or four feet long. It is dark green and wrinkled, and its head is like a turtle's head. Peel when tender, cook and expose, and order tea to fill vegetables. Old age is as big as a pestle, and the tendons are woven like new buttons. After frost, it is dry and the kettle is washed, so the villagers call it washing pots and melons. There is a partition inside, and the child is in the partition. It looks like a wilting child, black and flat. Its flower buds and tender leaf tendrils can be eaten. "
Sexual taste: sweet, cold and non-toxic.
Meridian tropism: entering the liver and stomach meridians. ① "Deserved Materia Medica": Start with Taiyin Sutra. ② "Seeking Truth from Materia Medica": Entering meridians and intestines and stomach. (3) Rejuvenation of Materia Medica: Entering the Liver and Kidney.
Efficacy Indications: It can remove heat and benefit intestines, and can be used to treat acne and breast milk.
"Luchuan Materia Medica": "Promoting fluid production to quench thirst, relieving summer heat and relieving annoyance".
Herb Collection Book: "Treat women's leucorrhea, blood swelling and accumulation, and all bones and muscles ache."
Song Luyou's "Luffa": "Luffa washes the inkstone, and the remaining stains are exhausted without damaging the inkstone."
"Learning Garden Miscellaneous Sparse": Loofah, the northern species is better, and the slender and tender one is beautiful. Cold nature, non-toxic, has the ability to weaken yang when eating more, which is unusual for northerners to spit when they eat. However, its pedicle can be used to treat children's pox; Juice dripping bottle can eliminate phlegm fire, and its coolness can be known.
Seeking Truth from Materia Medica: Luffa is a cold thing, sweet and slippery. Ordinary people with wind, phlegm, damp heat, toxic blood stasis, stagnation in meridians, carbuncle, ulcer, intestinal bleeding, edema and other symptoms, take it effectively, and use it to dredge channels and collaterals everywhere. However, over-taking can also cause diarrhea, so there is a saying in the book that this is a deficiency in the food, and it is ok to treat it as dirty. Zhu Zhenheng: The treatment of acne is not fast, and those who are dry will burn. Put cinnabar into the powder and mix it with honey and water.
Materia Medica: Treat acne and sore feet, burn ashes, and apply.
"Introduction to Medicine": Treat all malignant sores of men and women, residual poison of acne rash in children, combined with milk gangrene and furuncle.
Functional indication
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that loofah is cool and sweet, and has the functions of clearing away heat, detoxicating, cooling blood to stop bleeding, dredging channels and collaterals, promoting blood circulation, beautifying and resisting cancer, and can treat diseases such as phlegm, asthma, cough, galactorrhea, fever, polydipsia, aching bones and muscles, bloody stool and so on. Clearing heat and resolving phlegm; Cooling blood and detoxifying. Main fever, body heat and polydipsia; Phlegm, asthma and cough; Hemorrhage due to intestinal wind and hemorrhoids; Blood drenching; Collapse and leakage; Ulcer and ulcer; Unknown swelling; Edema. Luffa is green, tender, crisp and sweet, and it is a good dish for clearing heat and purging fire, cooling blood and detoxifying in summer. Luffa is not only rich in nutrition, but also has certain medicinal value, and it is full of treasures. According to Guangyan Gao, director of Wuhan Guangyan Chinese Medicine Acupuncture Clinic, Luffa is rich in nutrients and contains interferon inducer, which can stimulate human body to produce interferon and achieve the purpose of anti-virus and cancer prevention. Generally speaking, eating tender loofah has better taste, nutrition and therapeutic effect. Luffa is cold and sweet, which has the functions of relieving summer heat, promoting bowel movement, dispelling wind and resolving phlegm, cooling blood and detoxifying, dredging channels and activating collaterals, promoting circulation of qi and removing blood stasis, etc. It can also treat blood in urine and stool and help parturient to suckle, but eating too much can also cause diarrhea. People with chronic illness, spleen and stomach weakness and indigestion should eat less. Luffa is also a rare natural beauty agent for removing freckles, whitening and wrinkles. Long-term consumption or wiping the face with loofah liquid can also make people's skin smooth and delicate, and has special effects of anti-wrinkle and anti-inflammation, and preventing and eliminating acne and melanosis.
Luffa seed is cold, bitter and slightly sweet, and has the functions of clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, detoxifying, moistening dryness and expelling insects.
Luffa sponge is flat and sweet, and is good at dredging collaterals. It can be used for postpartum hypogalactia and chest and hypochondriac pain caused by qi and blood stagnation.
Luffa is cold in flower and slightly bitter in taste. It has the function of clearing away heat and toxic materials, and can be used for cough, sore throat and furuncle caused by lung heat.
Luffa vine relaxes tendons and collaterals, and can eliminate phlegm.
The juice of the stem of Luffa has a special function of beauty and wrinkle removal.
Luffa root can be used for anti-inflammation, sterilization, putrefaction and granulation.
Most people can eat loofah. People with irregular menstruation and physical fatigue should eat more loofah.
Attached prescription
① Treatment of intestinal wind: no matter how much cotton melon is, it burns ash, and the wine is adjusted to two yuan, which is hollow. ("Continued Skills")
② Treatment of hemorrhoid leakage and proctoptosis: Luffa burned ash, lime for many years and realgar each cost five yuan. At the end, mix and paste the gallbladder, chicken egg white and sesame oil, and collect it. ("Sun Tianren's Effective Prescription")
③ Treatment of anal wine hemorrhoids: Luffa is burnt, grinded, and served with wine for two dollars. (Compendium)
4 cure white collapse: palm (burning ash) and loofah. The upper part is divided into equal parts, which are fine powder. The hollow wine is adjusted. ("miracle cure")
⑤ Treating wind and heat: Luffa is burnt, ground and rubbed with water. (Compendium)
⑥ Treatment of carbuncle is not convergent, and the sore is too deep: towel gourd is frequently rubbed with juice. ("Ren Zhai Zhi Fang")
⑦ Treatment of blisters and wet sores: Luffa juice and powder are frequently applied. (Compendium)
⑧ Cure the ulcer of the jade stem: pound the juice with loofah and lotus seeds, and rub it with gallnut. (Zhu Zhenheng)
Attending to treat dry blood gas pain, women's blood gas is not good, and they rush to the heart diaphragm and become dry blood gas: a towel gourd, burning, hollow warm wine service. ("Shouyu Shenfang")
⑾ Treatment of meridian obstruction: dry a towel gourd as the end, mix it with pigeon blood into a cake, dry it in the day and grind it into the end. It costs two yuan each time. Under the hollow wine, take Siwutang three times first. ("Famous Maritime Party")
⑿ For treating abdominal pain caused by bloody stool due to wine dysentery, or those with five colors like fish brain: one dried loofah, burnt with skin, and served with hollow wine for two yuan. One side simmers it. ("experience prescription")
[13] Treatment of milk obstruction: the burning property of loofah lianzi, research. Take one or two dollars for wine, and be covered with sweat. ("Simple Unilateral")
[14] Treatment of toothache caused by wind insects: The frost-dried loofah is burnt, and it is rubbed at the end. ("Ren Zhai Zhi Fang")
(15) A proper amount of raw loofah, taken in soup, can prevent measles.
(16) Take a little raw towel gourd juice and honey; Or cut off with loofah vine, drop a small cup of water naturally, stew hot and add rock sugar to treat whooping cough.
(17) Raw several small loofahs (with pedicels), cut them off, put them in a casserole, and take thick juice to treat asthma. (18) Raw loofah (or leaves), mashed to get juice, applied to the affected area, and treated acne vulgaris, yellow water sore, heat furuncle and urticaria.
(19) A towel gourd was frosted, chopped and soaked in boiling water to treat acute laryngitis and sore throat.
(20) 30 grams of towel gourd kernel, boiled silver carp food, less milk.
(2 1) Luffa seed is baked and ground into powder, and each dose is10g, which is not easy to cure expectoration.
(22) Fresh towel gourd leaves are washed and mashed, and applied to the affected area of neurodermatitis until local redness or even occult blood is seen, once every seven days to treat neurodermatitis.
(23) Old loofah (peeled), baked on a tile to dry and grind into powder, and mixed with yellow wine10g to treat lung abscess, hernia pain and postpartum abdominal pain.
(24) Instant loofah drink: one old loofah is washed, seeded and chopped, and then boiled with appropriate amount of water for one hour, and then the residue is removed. When the liquid juice continues to be boiled with low fire until it becomes thick, the fire is stopped, and white sugar powder100g is added, and the mixture is evenly mixed and bottled. At any time, use10g, and take it with boiling water. Can be used for treating acute and chronic pharyngitis, laryngitis and tonsillitis.
(25) Luffa lean broth: about 250g of fresh Luffa is cut into pieces, and about 200g of lean pork is sliced. Add appropriate amount of water to cook soup, season with salt after cooking, and eat with meals. It has the effects of clearing away heat, benefiting intestines, relieving summer heat and relieving annoyance. It is suitable for summer heat, polydipsia, early internal hemorrhoid and stool bleeding.
(26) acne is not fast. Use an old loofah three inches close to the pedicle, burn the skin, grind it into powder, and take it with sugar water.
(27) The carbuncle does not converge, and the wound is deep. There are loofah mashed juice frequently applied.
(28) Wind-heat rib swelling. Burn it with loofah, grind it into powder, and apply it with water.
(29) Chair sores. Bake with melon skin, grind into powder, mix with distilled spirit and apply.
(30) frostbite of hands and feet. Burn with old loofah, adjust wax and lard.
(3 1) Hemorrhoids, leakage and proctoptosis. Burn the towel gourd, lime for many years and realgar for 50 yuan each, grind it into powder, and apply it with pig bile, egg white and sesame oil until it is removed from the intestine.
(32) Blood flowing under intestinal wind. Burn the dried loofah with frost, grind it into powder, take two money in the hollow, and send the wine.
(33) Blood collapse. Burn the old loofah and palm ash equally, and serve with salt wine or salt soup.
(34) the milk is blocked. Use loofah lotus seeds to burn, grind them into powder, give one or two dollars for wine, and cover them with sweat.
(35) Intestinal gas pains, rushing around the umbilicus. Burn the old loofah with its pedicle and grind it into powder. Every time you take San Qian, the hot wine is adjusted. If the patient is seriously ill, it will disappear after taking it two or three times.
(36) Egg swelling and falling. Burn with old loofah, grind into powder, refine honey and make paste. Take a spoonful of good wine every night.
(37) Low back pain. Stir-fried with loofah seeds, mashed and served with wine. Apply slag to the pain.
(38) Laryngeal obstruction with swelling and pain. Poured with loofah pulp.
(39) Eliminating phlegm and relieving cough. Burn with loofah, grind into powder, and add dates to make balls, such as marbles. Take one pill each time and send it with warm wine.
(40) toothache is prevalent. Use a raw towel gourd, rub it with salt to keep it alive, grind it into the end, wipe your teeth frequently, and the saliva will heal. If the rib is swollen, it can be applied with water at the end. This prescription is ineffective in treating tooth decay.
(4 1) knife wound. Divide ancient lime, new lime, towel gourd root leaves and leek roots into equal parts, pound them to pieces, make them into cakes, dry them in the shade, grind them into powder and apply them. Stop bleeding, stop pain, promote granulation, and have special effects.
(42) The sores are persistent. Wash and rub with the old roots of loofah.
The medicinal value of each part: the sexual and taste effects of the medicinal parts of traditional Chinese medicine, the fresh and tender fruit of Luffa plant; Or the old ripe fruit (skull) dried up after frost is sweet; Calm, clear away heat and resolve phlegm; The seeds of Luffa seed plant with cooling blood and detoxifying taste bitter; Cold and heat clearing; Lishui; Relaxation; The root of the deworming towel gourd root plant is sweet; Slightly bitter; Cold nature, promoting blood circulation and dredging collaterals; Clearing away heat and toxic materials; the leaves of Luffa leaf plants are bitter; Slightly cold, clearing away heat and detoxifying; Stop bleeding; The peel of the summer-heat-removing towel gourd skin plant is sweet; The vascular bundles of mature fruits of Luffa sponge plants are bitter; Cool nature, dredging channels and activating collaterals; Detoxification and detumescence: The flowers of Luffa flower plants are sweet; Slightly bitter; Cold, heat-clearing and detoxification; Resolving phlegm and relieving cough, the pedicel of towel gourd plants tastes bitter; Slightly cold, clearing away heat and detoxifying; Resolving phlegm and calming the bitter taste of the stems of Luffa rattan plants; Slightly cold, relaxing muscles and activating blood; Cough and phlegm; The yield of detoxified and insecticidal loofah is obviously higher than that of open-field cultivation when it is cultivated in winter, early spring or over summer in energy-saving solar greenhouse. Because of the high market price, its economic benefit is obviously higher than other melons, and it is deeply loved by vegetable farmers.
Pharmacological effect 1, antiviral effect Fresh and tender Luffa extract (LO43) has obvious preventive effect on subcutaneous infection of Japanese encephalitis virus in newly weaned mice when injected intraperitoneally, and the protection rate can reach 60%-80% when injected with LO43 before infection. When injected with LO43 after being infected with the virus, the protection rate is only 20%-27%, and LO43 has no direct inactivation effect on encephalitis virus. The preliminary experiment suggested that LO43 was an inducer of kallidinogenase, and its effective component might be stranded RNA. It needs to be further confirmed that the extract of Luffa towel gourd bud (the leaves and roots are cut off after the seeds germinate) also has a similar effect on Japanese encephalitis virus. The effective component of LO42 can be precipitated by hexanol, mainly containing polysaccharides and nucleic acids. Intravenous injection of LO42 in rabbits has obvious effect of inducing conglutinin, and its effective component is nucleic acid, but the multi-grain part is ineffective.
2. Anti-allergic effect: The diarrheic acid (BA) in tissue culture cells of Luffa not only has almost the same anti-allergic effect as glycyrrhetinic acid (GA) (type I allergic reaction in rats), but also shows several times stronger anti-allergic effect than GA in mice. In addition, BA showed a stronger inhibitory effect 10 times or more than 10 times than GA on mouse toe swelling caused by histamine, serotonin or bradykinin. BA, unlike GA, has no metabolic acyl activity (BASK) of steroid hormones. Geraniolic acid is a significant antiallergic agent, which is high in artificial culture solution of Luffa and easy to be converted into more potent derivatives.
3. A glycoprotein was isolated from the seeds of Osmunda esculenta, which can cause mid-term abortion in pregnant rats. Protein synthesis can be inhibited in cell-free systems.
4. Toxic LO43 100μg/ml has no toxicity to rabbit kidney cells cultured in the department. Mice were injected with LO43 200μm/ mouse every time and 8 times within 76h, all of them survived. Rabbits were injected with LO43 6mg/kg intravenously, but their body temperature did not increase. Mice were intraperitoneally injected120μ g every 4h, ***6 times; Ah, inject 1 time every 8h, ***3 times, and then every 12h 1 time, ***5 times. All the mice survived. Mice taking BASK4g/kg orally did not cause death, and mice injected with diarrheic acid 1g/kg intraperitoneally did not die within 2 weeks.
Suitable crowd
Suitable for patients with polydipsia, phlegm, asthma, cough, intestinal wind, hemorrhoids and leakage during fever, and furuncle in summer; It is suitable for women who take it down and have postpartum milk problems. It is beautiful to eat tender people, and it is superior to use old people for medicine. That is to say, if you want to eat loofah, you should choose something tender; And if you want to use loofah as medicine, the old loofah is the best.
dosage
Oral administration: decoction, 3-6 yuan (fresh 2-4 Liang); Or burn ashes and grind them into powder. External use: Pouring juice or grinding and dressing.
matters need attention
Luffa should not be eaten raw. Luffa is rich in juice, so it should be cut and cooked now, so as to avoid the nutrients flowing away with the juice. When cooking loofah, attention should be paid to keeping it as light as possible, using less oil, and using monosodium glutamate or pepper to enhance the flavor, so as to show the fragrant and refreshing characteristics of loofah.
① "Herbal Medicine in Southern Yunnan": It is not advisable to eat more, which will damage the life door and make people lose hope.
2 "Ben Jing Feng Yuan": Loofah is tender and cold, eating more and diarrhea.