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What are the uses of luffa seeds? It is a traditional Chinese medicine

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Luffa is rich in nutrients and contains a large amount of vitamins, minerals, saponins, plant mucus, xylan gum and other substances. It is a seasonal vegetable that people love to eat.

In fact, loofah has high medicinal value and can be used as medicine throughout the body. Luffa fruit is sweet, cold and non-toxic. It enters the liver and stomach meridian and can cure body heat and polydipsia, phlegm and cough, intestinal wind and hemorrhoids, metrorrhagia and bloody stranguria, sores, lactation obstruction, carbuncle and other diseases.

Luffa seeds are also called "Woniuzi". The bitter ones are cold and poisonous, while the sweet ones are non-toxic. According to the "Food Materia Medica": "The bitter seeds are associated with heavy water, edema of the face and limbs, water discharge, and vomiting; the sweet seeds relieve troubles and relieve coughs, treat heart heat, dilute water channels, regulate the heart and lungs, treat stone stranguria, and vomiting roundworms." Domestic medical units use loofah seeds to treat children with ascariasis. The deworming effect is good and the method of use is simple. Chew 30 loofah seeds on an empty stomach and take it for 2 days. Luffa seeds also have the functions of moistening dryness and laxative, clearing away heat and reducing phlegm. In recent years, studies have found that luffa seeds contain small-molecule ribosome-inactivating protein immunotoxins, which have a strong inhibitory effect on human melanoma cells cultured in vitro and are a promising drug.