Gourd contains carbohydrates, protein, crude fiber, fat, vitamin C, carotene and other vitamins as well as various minerals.

Efficacy:

Gourd is flat and sweet; Entering the lung, spleen and kidney meridians; Has diuretic, repercussive, thirst quenching, vexation relieving, stranguria relieving, and hard mass resolving effects. Indications: edema, ascites, fever, thirst, sores, jaundice, gonorrhea and carbuncle.

Dietary taboos:

Gourd is slippery, and people with diarrhea due to deficiency of spleen and stomach should avoid eating more.

The scientific name of "night flowering" is gourd, which belongs to cucurbitaceae and is named after night flowering. If you eat bitter "night flowering", you are very likely to be poisoned. Because the bitter "cordate telosma" contains biological toxin-picroside. This toxin causes nausea, vomiting, dry throat, dizziness, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other symptoms within 2 hours after eating/kloc-0.

Gourd can grow to about 30-50 cm, with a diameter of about 5-8 cm, straight and slender, with thin pink skin.