Bitter melon has heat dissipation, nourishment for the treatment of dysentery, sores, heat stroke fever, prickly heat, conjunctivitis and other diseases have a certain effect. Bitter melon not only has a clear heart and eyes, cool and quench thirst, diarrhea six meridians of real fire, there is also beneficial to the role of gas, relieve fatigue; in addition, it can also be used to prevent and control heatstroke, dysentery, malignant sores, red-eye pain and other roles.

Eating bitter melon can also enhance the cortex vitality, so that the skin becomes tender and beautiful. In the hot summer women often apply iced bitter melon slices, can immediately lift the dry skin, and bitter melon can also moisturize the fair skin, calm and moisturize the skin. Chinese medicine believes that the spleen and stomach warmth and heat within the upward steam, or the lung meridian heat, or digestive tract dysfunction, or Chong Ren disorders, rising stagnation in the face into acne. Summer is the season of acne, bitter melon is rich in vitamin B1, vitamin C and minerals, long-term consumption, can maintain high energy, the treatment of acne has great benefits.

The fresh juice of bitter melon, containing bitter melon glycosides and insulin-like substances, has a good hypoglycemic effect, can make the intake of fat and polysaccharides to reduce. Scientists extracted oral insulin-like drug from bitter melon. This drug has a significant effect on diabetes, there is also a significant hypoglycemic effect.

Bitter melon protein components and a large number of vitamin C can improve the body's immune function; bitter melon juice contains a certain protein component that can strengthen the ability of macrophages. Clinically effective in lymphosarcoma and leukemia; extracted from the seeds of bitter melon trypsin inhibitor, can inhibit the secretion of cancer cells out of the protease, to stop the growth of malignant tumors. The bitter gourd contains the bitter taste pigment which can inhibit the malignant tumor to secrete protein and prevent the growth and spread of cancer cells. Foreign experiments have found that bitter melon can make the human tongue, throat, the bottom of the mouth, nasopharyngeal cancer cell growth is inhibited.