When I was a child, I often had prickly heat and my neck was always red. The older generation taught me to treat it with bitter gourd leaves. I just ran to my vegetable field and picked some older bitter gourd leaves with the mentality of trying. Wash the prickly heat with clean water first, then poke the bitter gourd leaves with both hands, which looks a little fuzzy, and then rub them back and forth with your hands. It seems to be redder after rubbing, but after a few hours, the prickly heat is covered with small skin. It only takes a few times, a week or so, but I didn't expect to really cure the heat rash.
Bitter gourd, the fruit of cucurbitaceae, is cultivated all over the country, also known as golden pear, grape and grape. It is a good food therapy with the same origin of medicine and food. Bitter gourd never penetrates bitter taste into other ingredients, so it is also called DOUBLE _ quotes, a gentleman's dish. Bitter gourd, bitter and cold in nature, is rich in vitamin C, and has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving fatigue, clearing away heart fire and improving eyesight, benefiting qi and strengthening yang. Foreign scientists have also extracted a kind of quinine from bitter gourd, which contains physiologically active protein, which can improve the function of immune system and is also beneficial to skin regeneration and wound healing. Therefore, eating bitter gourd often can also enhance the vitality of the cortex and make the skin tender and fit. Not long ago, scientists extracted and exported an insulin-like drug (Dofu -P) from Momordica charantia L., which has a remarkable curative effect on diabetes and a remarkable hypoglycemic effect. Momordica charantia is rich in nutrition, and its protein, fat, carbohydrate and so on are higher in melon vegetables, especially the content of vitamin C is as high as 84 mg per 100 grams, which is about 5 times that of wax gourd, 0/4 times that of cucumber and 2/0/times that of pumpkin, ranking first among melons. Bitter gourd also contains crude fiber, carotene, momordicin, phosphorus, iron, various minerals and amino acids. Bitter gourd also contains more lipoprotein, which can promote the human immune system to resist cancer cells. Regular consumption can enhance human immune function. Bitter taste of bitter gourd is due to its antimalarial quinine, which can inhibit the overexcited body temperature center. So bitter gourd has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying. Bitter gourd is fragrant and delicious because of its bitter taste. It is regarded as a rare food therapy. Since ancient times, there has been a saying in China that bitterness can clear away heat and strengthen the stomach. Chinese medicine believes that bitter gourd tastes bitter and cold, and can clear away heat and purge fire. Bitter taste of bitter gourd can stimulate the secretion of saliva and gastric juice, greatly increase appetite, and also have the effect of clearing away heat and preventing heatstroke. So eating bitter gourd in summer is the most suitable. Bitter gourd is a commonly used unilateral therapeutic agent in traditional Chinese medicine. For example, bitter gourd seeds are fried and ground into powder, 6 grams each time, and yellow sprinkling can cure impotence and nocturnal emission; Pouring fresh bitter gourd juice or decoction is a good supplementary diet therapy for liver fire, stomach heat, epigastric pain and damp-heat dysentery. Fresh bitter gourd mashed and applied externally to treat carbuncle and furuncle; Children are prone to prickly heat in summer. Slice the bitter gourd and try to wipe the prickly heat, which can be cured as soon as possible. Bitter gourd boiled water or cooked food can dissipate heat and relieve summer heat; Bitter gourd is a good medicine for fever after drying in the sun.
Fresh leaves contain momordicin.
Bitter gourd is probably sprayed melon seeds, which have two isomers. β-spray melon seeds is a strong aqueous diarrhea agent (α-isomer has no such effect), which is insoluble in water and slightly soluble in alcohol, and tastes bitter. It has been used to eliminate edema in patients with nephritis, but the dosage should not be too large and the number of applications should not be too much.
Indications-the effect of bitter gourd leaves on stomachache, dysentery and furuncle.
Li Chengzuo's medicinal botany: treating stomachache, diarrhea and expelling worms.
Lu chuan's materia medica: treating fetal poison in children.
Sichuan traditional Chinese medicine annals: external application or external washing of red swelling and sore poison.