What is the medicinal function of loofah?
1, Luffa is the fresh and tender fruit of Cucurbitaceae plants Luffa and Luffa Guangdong. Also known as Luffa, Tianluo, Tianluo Gua, Mangua, Bugua, Miangua and Tiandiaogua. 2. Luffa is sweet in taste, cool in nature and nontoxic. It has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting bowel movement, cooling blood and detoxifying, activating collaterals and dredging menstruation, and can be used to treat sore throat, cough, asthma, mumps, breast obstruction, low back pain, acne rash, toothache, and chest and rib pain. 3. Luffa has a high medicinal value and can be used as medicine in all aspects. Luffa contains various kinds of nutrients in melon food, and special substances such as saponins, bitter quality of Luffa, mucilage, wood glue, citrulline, xylan and interferon have certain special functions. 4. Luffa contains vitamin B 1 for preventing skin aging and vitamin C for whitening skin, 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". Pay attention to eating more loofah in your diet at ordinary times, which is helpful for regulating irregular menstruation. Treatment of sore throat: take tender loofah and pound juice, and rinse frequently. Treatment of milk stagnation: an old towel gourd, dried in the shade, burned on firewood until brown, ground into fine powder, take 9 grams of yellow wine each time, and then cover it with sweat (just sweat slightly), once a day, before going to bed, for three consecutive days. Treatment of irregular menstruation: towel gourd is baked, decocted in water, added with a little red pond, and taken with yellow wine. Treatment of lack of milk: 30 grams of loofah seeds, cooked with crucian carp. Treatment of acute laryngitis: a towel gourd with frost, chopped, soaked in boiling water, to treat acute laryngitis and sore throat. Treatment of chronic laryngitis: raw loofah juice, or cut off loofah vine, take the water 1 small cup that drips naturally, stew it and add crystal sugar to drink it frequently. Treatment of skin rash and itching: raw loofah or loofah leaves are mashed to get juice and applied to the affected area to treat urticaria, heat furuncle, pemphigus, impetigo and skin itching. Luffa leaves clear away heat and detoxify; Luffa skin is used to treat gold sores and bench sores; Luffa flower treats cough, sore throat and sinusitis caused by lung heat; Luffa seeds treat limb edema, stone stranguria and intestinal wind; Luffa Loofah is used to treat chest pain, abdominal pain and lumbago. Luffa vine treats numbness and edema of waist, knees and limbs; Luffa root treats migraine, mastitis and sore throat.