Gourd can be eaten in many ways. Wang Zhen said in the Agricultural Book of the Yuan Dynasty: "This is widely used. The big one can be vegetarian soup or meat soup. You can fry honey first, cut it into strips and dry it ... "He also said," It's just something that you can't finish eating. Cooking Xian Yi is the best vegetable. " It can be seen that the ancients used gourd as fruits and vegetables, and they ate in various ways, such as boiling soup, pickling and drying in the sun. The boiled soup is fragrant and delicious. Different from other melons and fruits, gourd and its leaves should be eaten when they are tender, otherwise they will lose their edible value when they are ripe.

Efficacy and function of gourd

Gourd can not only charge, but also be medicine itself. Gourd is sweet, smooth and non-toxic, and its vines, whiskers, leaves, flowers, seeds and shells can be used as medicine to treat many diseases. According to ancient medical books, gourd flowers are sweet, flat and non-toxic, which can be used as detoxification drugs, especially for various fistula sores. Tendrils and whiskers are as medicinal as flowers and can treat leprosy. Gourd tastes bitter, cold and toxic, and can be used to treat odontopathy, swollen or exposed gums, loose teeth, etc. It can also treat facial features, edema of limbs, urinary tract obstruction, nasal congestion and all carbuncle and malignant sores. In particular, the gourd shell has the highest medicinal value, sweet taste, flat nature and no toxicity. Used for clearing away heat and toxic materials, moistening lung and relaxing bowels. The older the gourd shell, the higher the curative effect.

Nutritional value of gourd

Gourd contains protein and a variety of trace elements, which helps to enhance the immune function of the body. At the same time, gourd is rich in vitamin C, which can promote the synthesis of antibodies and improve the antiviral ability of the body. Two kinds of trypsin inhibitors can be separated from gourd, which can inhibit trypsin and thus have the effect of lowering blood sugar. Gourd is rich in carotene, which can prevent the synthesis of carcinogens in human body after eating, thus reducing the formation of cancer cells and the occurrence of cancer in human body, thus playing a role in preventing cancer.