Luffa is the fresh and tender fruit of Cucurbitaceae herbs Luffa and Luffa Guangdong. Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan and other places are cultivated. Pick in summer and autumn, scrape off the rough skin, wash and use.
it's sweet and cool.
ingredients this product contains protein, fat, carbohydrate, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B1, vitamin c, saponin, plant mucus, xylose gum, etc.
it has the functions of clearing heat, resolving phlegm, cooling blood and detoxicating. Used for cough, asthma, whooping cough, parotitis and pharyngolaryngitis. Bleeding after defecation, etc.
25g of fresh loofah and 2g of lean pork are cut into pieces, and appropriate amount of water is added to cook the soup. After cooking, it is seasoned with salt.
6 ml (3-6 years old) of fresh luffa juice with pertussis, plus appropriate amount of honey, taken orally twice a day.
take 1g of raw luffa for measles prevention in decoction twice a day for 3 days.
Pharyngolaryngitis is chopped by 1 piece of frost towel gourd and decocted in water. Or tender loofah mashed juice, 1 tablespoon each time, 3 times a day.
1 old towel gourd with mumps, chopped and fried until slightly yellow, and ground into fine powder. 1 grams each time, taken with boiling water, 3 times a day, for 5 days.
milk less than 3 grams of loofah seed, boiled silver carp food.
2 pieces of towel gourd were born for asthma, cut off, boiled in a casserole, and 15 ml of thick juice was taken three times a day.
two old loofahs with lung abscess, hernia pain and postpartum abdominal pain were peeled, baked on a tile and ground into powder, and mixed with rice wine, 1g each time, 3 times a day.
deficiency of the spleen and stomach and diarrhea should be avoided.
The family belongs to the fresh and tender fruit of Cucurbitaceae plant Luffa.
alias Luffa, Tianluo, Miangua, Bugua and Tianluo Gua.
the sexual taste is cold and sweet; Human lung and liver meridians.
it has the functions of clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, cooling blood and detoxicating, relieving summer-heat and relieving restlessness, dredging channels and activating collaterals. Indications are fever, thirst, phlegm, asthma, cough, intestinal wind, hemorrhoids and leakage, sores and swelling, and women's galactorrhea.
every 1g of nutrients contains protein L.4-L.5g, fat .1g, carbohydrate 4.3-4.5g, crude fiber .3-.5g, ash .5g, calcium 18-28mg, phosphorus 39-45mg, riboflavin .3-
.6mg and niacin. Ascorbic acid 5-8 mg. In addition, it also contains saponins, bitter gourd, a lot of mucus, citrulline and so on.
dietotherapy
1. The content of vitamin C in anti-scurvy towel gourd is high, which contains 8 mg per 1 grams, and can be used for anti-scurvy and preventing various vitamin C deficiency.
2. Brain-strengthening and beauty-caring. Because the content of vitamin B1 in loofah is also high, it is beneficial to the brain development of children and the brain health of middle-aged and elderly people. The juice of the stem of Luffa has the special function of keeping skin elastic and can beautify and wrinkle.
3. Antiviral and antiallergic Luffa extract (Lo43) has obvious preventive effect on Japanese encephalitis virus, and the protection rate can reach 6% ~ 8% by injecting Lo43 before infection. A kind of anti-allergic substance, Xiegen Alkyd, was also extracted from tissue culture solution of Luffa, which has a strong anti-allergic effect.
Health-care recipes
1. Burn 8g of loofah, 5g of water-soaked mushrooms and appropriate amount of ginger juice. First, wash the water-soaked mushrooms, peel the loofah, wash and slice; Heat the pot, add raw oil, cook with ginger juice, add towel gourd slices, mushrooms, cooking wine, refined salt and monosodium glutamate, boil until mushrooms and towel gourd taste, thicken with wet starch, pour sesame oil and mix well. This dish has the effects of invigorating qi and blood and dredging meridians. It is suitable for women with postpartum galactorrhea and breast pain.
2. Tomato and loofah soup: 1 loofah, 2 tomatoes and appropriate amount of chopped green onion. First, clean tomatoes and cut them into thin slices, then peel, clean and slice loofah; Boil the cooked lard to 6% heat, add 5 ooml of fresh soup to boil, put the loofah slices and tomato slices, and when cooked, add pepper, salt, monosodium glutamate and chopped green onion and mix well. This soup is delicious, fresh and fragrant, and has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic substances and eliminating restlessness. Heat and boredom, thirst and dry throat are effective.
3. stir-fry 25O grams of loofah. Peel, clean and slice the loofah, put a little oil on the pot, heat it to 6%, stir-fry the loofah, and add a little salt when the loofah is cooked. This dish is light and delicious, and has the functions of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. It is especially suitable for patients with phlegm, asthma, cough, dysentery and jaundice.
4. Raw loofah juice: 1g raw loofah, and proper amount of honey. First, wash the raw loofah, shred and squeeze the juice, add honey (generally 1: 1 ratio) and stir well. This juice has the effects of clearing away heat, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, and is suitable for children with pertussis.
Precautions: Luffa is cold and slippery, and eating too much is easy to cause diarrhea; Do not eat it raw.
Selected documents
Compendium of Materia Medica: "Cooked food can remove heat and benefit intestines".
Lu chuan's materia medica: "promoting fluid production to quench thirst, relieving summer heat and relieving vexation".
Herb Collection Book: "Treat women's leucorrhea, blood swelling and accumulation, and all bones and muscles ache."
cultural appreciation
Lu You in Song Dynasty. "Luffa": "Luffa washes the inkstone, and the remaining stains are exhausted without damaging the inkstone."
Anonymous: "After a few days of rain, the grass grows in autumn, and the loofah prolongs the tile wall."
Anonymous: "Yellow flowers fade to green and grow in length, white knots surround Xiaoshuang, and they are so thin and thin that they have just touched people's faces."