Medicinal efficacy of Luffa
Indications:
Clearing away heat and toxic materials; Stop bleeding; Dispel summer heat. Main carbuncle; Furuncle and swelling; Sore and tinea; Snake bite; Soup fire injury; Sore throat; Traumatic bleeding; Summer heat and polydipsia
Usage and dosage:
Oral administration: decoction, 6-15g; Fresh product 15-6g, or mashed juice; Or grind it. External use: appropriate amount, decocted and washed; Or tamping; Or grinding and dressing.
various discussions
1. Compendium: tinea and sores, frequently mixed with them, treat carbuncle, swelling and egg degeneration.
2. Living with Interest Diet Spectrum: Eliminating summer heat and detoxifying. For abdominal pain caused by scurvy, wring juice.
3. "Lingnan Herb Collection Record": decoct and take to cure goose throat.
4. Flora of Guangzhou: Mashing, treating carbuncle and Xia Yue's dermatosis in children, has the effect of reducing swelling and relieving inflammation.
The value of edible loofah is reflected
1. Anti-scurvy:
The content of vitamin C in loofah is high, with 8 mg per 1 grams, which can be used to resist scurvy and prevent various vitamin C deficiency.
2. Brain-nourishing beauty:
Because of the high content of vitamin B in towel gourd, it is beneficial to the brain development of children and the brain health of middle-aged and elderly people; The juice of the stem of Luffa has the special function of keeping skin elastic and can beautify and wrinkle.
Luffa contains B vitamins to prevent skin aging, vitamin C to whiten skin and other ingredients, which can protect skin, eliminate plaque and make skin white and tender. It is a rare beauty product, so Luffa juice is called beauty water. It is also helpful for women to eat more loofah to regulate irregular menstruation.
3. Anti-virus and anti-allergy:
Luffa extract has obvious preventive effect on Japanese encephalitis virus, and a kind of anti-allergic substance, Xiegen alkyd, is also extracted from Luffa tissue culture solution, which has strong anti-allergic effect.
knowing the efficacy and functions of loofah, I suggest that if you have the above demands, you might as well eat more loofah to recuperate your body.