Luffa is tender, sweet and delicious. It is a favorite vegetable in summer and autumn, and also an ornamental plant. Du Beishan, a poet in the Song Dynasty, heard the tinkling of spring water in a quiet country, and saw the growth of autumn grass in Chuqing after the rain, especially the green towel gourd with vines along the wall, which made him feel refreshed. Because of this, he wrote a poem to express his feelings: "The solitary hedge households come into the spring, but they are bright without seeing the mountains; In a few days, it will be fine in rain and long in autumn, and loofah will be born along the tile wall. "Luffa originated in Nanyang, and was introduced to China in the Ming Dynasty, becoming a vegetable that people often eat. As Li Shizhen said, "Loofah, which was unknown before the Tang and Song Dynasties, is common in both the north and the south today. "Luffa is a cool food. Compendium of Materia Medica says it "clears away heat and moistens intestines", and Ben Jingyuan also says: "Luffa is tender and cold. "So people who get angry have dry stools and should eat loofah, which has the effect of clearing away heat and relaxing bowels. In hot summer, drinking loofah soup often can not only supplement nutrition, but also clear away heat and relieve summer heat. Patients with fever, who are hot and thirsty, eat loofah, which also helps to reduce fever and quench thirst. As "Lu Chuan Ben Cao" said, loofah can "promote fluid production to quench thirst, relieve summer heat and remove annoyance, and cure fever and thirst, body heat and irritability. "Luffa has the function of clearing away heat and toxic materials." Compendium of Materia Medica introduced that Luffa was burned, ground into fine powder and applied with water to treat parotid gland swelling. " According to Ren Zhai Zhi Zhi Fang, if you don't stop taking medicine for a long time, you will pound the loofah juice and rub it frequently. Shenshi Zun Sheng Shu and Shoushenyu Fang both contain loofah, which is burnt into charcoal, ground into powder and mixed with warm wine to treat women's menstruation and abdominal pain. People also use 30 grams of loofah sponge to decoct in water and warm with yellow wine to treat women's low back pain. Loofah is also commonly used in modern folk to treat gynecological diseases. ① Use dried towel gourd to treat dysmenorrhea. ② Burn charcoal with old loofah, grind it into powder, and take 9g with boiling water every time to treat menorrhagia. ③ Send 9 grams of silk powder with yellow wine to cure milk obstruction. ④ Boiled with towel gourd powder and vinegar, and served with brown sugar water, which can also be used as an adjuvant treatment for mastitis. When the loofah is cooked, the pulp becomes a loofah, which has the effect of clearing away heat, resolving phlegm and dredging collaterals. Can be used for expectoration due to heat and milk yellow. When the loofah grows vigorously, it is cut from the thick loofah vine near the root, and the loofah vine liquid that flows out is Luo Tianshui, which has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying. Boiling with Luo Tianshui and white sugar can treat sore throat and cough with excessive phlegm. Collect scattered Luffa flowers, soak them in fresh boiled water as tea, which can clear away heat and quench thirst: Luffa flowers 15g, Sophora japonica flowers 30g, decoction can cure hemorrhoid bleeding. Cleaning fresh towel gourd leaves, mashing, and rubbing on the affected part until local redness can cure psoriasis (neurodermatitis); Luffa leaves are dried in the sun and made into powder, which is used for traumatic bleeding and also has hemostatic effect. It can be seen that Luffa is not only a fresh vegetable, but also its meat, pulp, vines, flowers and leaves have medicinal value and can treat many diseases. It's really "loofah has many medicinal uses".