Luffa is a vegetable that people often eat in summer. According to Compendium of Materia Medica, Luffa is cold and sweet, which can remove heat, promote bowel movement, dispel wind, eliminate phlegm, cool blood and detoxify, dredge meridians, activate blood vessels, and secrete milk. It can treat diseases such as sinusitis, cough, edema, bloody urine and stool, milk obstruction, wet feet, alopecia areata and so on. According to the research, Luffa contains protein, sugar, vitamins, minerals, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, iron, saponins, xylan and other substances, and it is a vegetable with high medicinal and nutritional value. Its medicinal methods are: 1, treating sinusitis. Bake the dried loofah in an iron pan and grind it into fine powder. Take 6 grams each time, and wash it with warm boiled water on an empty stomach in the morning for 8 days. 2, cure pharyngitis. Wash tender loofah, mash and squeeze juice, and add appropriate amount of rock sugar. Each time 1 spoon, 3 times a day. 3, cure cold cough. Bake the loofah seed, grind it into fine powder, and refine honey into pills, 9 grams each time, 3 times a day. 4. Treat allergic asthma. Wash the loofah vine, mash it and squeeze the juice. Take 1 spoon each time, three times a day. 5, cure the lack of milk. 60 grams of towel gourd, trotters 1 piece, stewed and eaten as a dish, twice a day. 6. Treat bacillary dysentery. The roots, stems and leaves of Luffa can be used. After washing, mash and squeeze juice, 2 spoonfuls each time, 3 times a day. 7, treatment of hemorrhoids caused by bloody stool. 30 grams of towel gourd flower, 0/5 grams of Sophora japonica flower/kloc-,decocted in water twice a day. 8. Treat renal edema. 30g of loofah sponge and 30g of sunflower head are decocted in water, once a day/kloc-0. 9. Treat neuralgia. Warm the loofah water and drink it, and the dosage depends on the symptoms, about 100 ml per day, or mash the loofah leaves and stems to squeeze juice and smear it on the affected part, which also has curative effect. 10, treat skin furuncle. Fresh loofah 1 piece, single garlic 1 piece, mashed and applied to the affected area, and then bandaged with gauze, changing the dressing 1 time every day. 1 1, treating tinea pedis. Squeezing dried loofah onto garlic juice and putting it in shoes can restrain foot sweat and inhibit the growth of tinea, which has a good effect on tinea pedis. 12, cure alopecia areata. Slice the old loofah, and wipe the hairless part vigorously until the local fever occurs, 2 ~ 3 times a day. 13, beauty. Luffa water contains effective medicinal ingredients such as protein and pectin. After washing your face every night, you can rub it with Luffa water or slice it and stick it on your face. 14, cure miliaria. Mash fresh towel gourd leaves, add a little borneol, wrap them with gauze, and gently apply them to the affected part, 3 ~ 4 times a day. 15, cure urticaria. Fresh towel gourd leaves 1 handful, mash and squeeze juice, add a little borneol, and smear on the affected part. 16, treating sweaty feet. Burn the old loofah into carbon, grind it into fine powder, sprinkle it in shoes, and wear it barefoot for half a month. 17, treating frostbite of hands and feet. Burn the old loofah into charcoal, grind it into fine powder, mix it in chicken oil and apply chilblain twice a day.

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