Do not consume bitter melon juice on an empty stomach. You can consume it in small amounts after meals.
Bitter melon is a cold and cooling product. People who usually have loose stools, long and clear urine, poor appetite and are afraid of cold, pale complexion, pale tongue and deep pulse are mostly deficient in Yang Qi or deficient in spleen and stomach. , this kind of people should not eat bitter melon often. Preschool children should not eat too much bitter melon; pregnant women should eat bitter melon with caution. Bitter melon contains quinine, and excessive consumption can stimulate uterine contractions and cause miscarriage.
There are bitter melon honey drinks, summer cooling drinks, instant health drinks, health drinks made of bitter melon and pumpkin or garlic, kumquat, etc., bitter melon tea, bitter melon milk, etc. As long as the bitter taste is eliminated, more people will become accustomed to drinking it.
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Nutrition
1. Clear heat and detoxify: Bitter melon can relieve heat in the heart and eliminate toxins in the body. The best way to eat bitter melon is cold salad. Cold cooking can well retain the vitamins contained in bitter melon.
2. Skin care and rejuvenation: Regular consumption of bitter melon can enhance the vitality of the cortex and make the skin tender and toned. Using fresh bitter melon to make juice or decoct it into soup is a good supplementary dietary therapy for liver fire, red eyes, epigastric pain, and damp-heat dysentery. Fresh bitter melon, mashed and applied externally, can treat carbuncles and boils.
3. Lower blood sugar: Clam and bitter melon soup is a top-quality product for lowering blood sugar. Bitter melon crude extract contains insulin-like substances and has obvious hypoglycemic effects. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that bitter melon is sweet, bitter and cold in nature and can clear away heat, relieve restlessness and quench thirst; clam meat is sweet, salty and cold, can clear away heat and nourish yin, quench thirst and diuresis. The combination of the two can clear away heat and nourish yin, and is suitable for people with diabetes who have stomach yin deficiency and heat.
Baidu Encyclopedia--Bitter Melon Juice
Baidu Encyclopedia--Bitter Melon Juice