Cucurbit has many ways to eat. Yuan dynasty Wang Zhen "book of agriculture" said: "Lagenaria for the use of a wide range of large can be boiled for vegetarian soup, can be cooked with meat for meat soup, can be honey before frying for fruit, can be cut into strips for dry ......" and said: "gourd for the thing is also tired, however, the food is endless, the most good vegetables. Cooking savory, the most good vegetables." Visible to the ancients is the gourd as fruits and vegetables to eat, and eat a variety of ways, both soup, but also dishes, both pickled, but also dry sun. Burning soup fragrant four, its flavor is delicious. Unlike other fruits and gourds, whether gourd or its leaves, should be eaten when young, otherwise it will lose its food value after maturity.

Gourd efficacy and role

Gourd in addition to the ability to contain medicine, itself can also be medicine. Gourd taste sweet, smooth and non-toxic, its vine, beard, leaves, flowers, seeds, shells can be used as medicine, cure a variety of diseases. According to ancient medical records, gourd flower taste sweet, sexuality, non-toxic, can do detoxification medicine, especially effective for all kinds of fistula. Trail, beard medicinal properties and flowers the same, can cure hemp sores. Gourd flesh and seeds, bitter flavor, cold, toxic, can cure dental disease, gums or swollen or dew, loose teeth. And can cure face, eyes, limbs, swelling, urinary incontinence, nasal congestion, and all carbuncles and malignant sores. Especially the highest medicinal value of gourd shells, its taste sweet, neutral, non-toxic, used to eliminate heat and detoxification, moistening the lungs and laxatives. The more aged the gourd shell, the higher the efficacy.

Nutritional value of gourd

Gourd contains protein and a variety of trace elements, which helps to enhance the immune function of the body. At the same time, gourd is rich in vitamin C, can promote the synthesis of antibodies, improve the body's anti-virus ability. From the gourd can be isolated two trypsin inhibitors, trypsin inhibition, thus playing the effect of lowering sugar. Carotene in the gourd in the content of more, after eating can prevent the synthesis of human carcinogenic substances, thereby reducing the formation of cancer cells, reduce the incidence of human cancer, thus playing a role in preventing and combating cancer