Definition of half-baked melon:

Semi-ripe melon (scientific name: bitter gourd? Bitter gourd (Cucurbitaceae) is an annual climbing tender herb with many branches; Stems and branches are pilose. Tendrils are slender and undivided. Petiole slender; Leaf blade membranous, green at the top, light green at the back, palmately veined. Monoecious.

Characteristics of semi-ripe melon:

Male pedicels slender, puberulent; Bracts green, slightly ciliate; Calyx lobes ovate-lanceolate, white pilose; Corolla yellow, lobes pilose; Stamens free. Female flowers solitary, pedicels puberulent; The ovary is spindle-shaped and the stigma is enlarged.

The fruit is spindle-shaped or cylindrical, wrinkled at maturity and orange-yellow. The seeds are rectangular with carvings on both sides. The flowering and fruiting period can be-10 month.

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Main value:

1, clearing away heat and toxic materials: Bitter gourd can relieve the heat in the heart and eliminate toxins in the body. The best way to eat bitter gourd is cold salad. Cold salad can well retain the vitamins contained in bitter gourd. If the method of stir-frying is used, these vitamins will be lost in the process of stir-frying, and the oil content after stir-frying is relatively high, and the oil intake after eating is relatively high, which cannot play a role in reducing fire.

2, beauty and rejuvenation: eating bitter gourd often can enhance the vitality of the cortex and make the skin tender and bodybuilding. Pouring fresh bitter gourd juice or decoction is a good supplementary diet therapy for liver fire, epigastric pain and damp-heat dysentery; Fresh bitter gourd mashed and applied externally to treat carbuncle and furuncle; Children are prone to prickly heat in summer. Slice the bitter gourd and try to wipe the prickly heat, which can be cured as soon as possible. Bitter gourd can dissipate heat and relieve summer heat by boiling water or cooking food.

3, lowering blood sugar: mussel bitter melon soup is the top grade of lowering blood sugar. Bitter gourd crude extract contains substances similar to insulin, which has obvious hypoglycemic effect. Chinese medicine believes that bitter gourd is sweet, bitter and cold, which can clear away heat, relieve annoyance and quench thirst; Clam meat is salty and cold, which can clear away heat and nourish yin, quench thirst and induce diuresis. The combination of the two can clear away heat and nourish yin, and is suitable for diabetic patients with insufficient stomach yin and excessive heat.

4, nourishing blood and nourishing liver: bitter gourd tastes bitter, cold when born, and warm when cooked. Raw food can clear away heat, relieve summer heat and purge fire, and clear away heat and trouble; Cooked food can nourish blood and liver, moisten spleen and kidney, clear away heat and relieve fatigue, clear heart and improve eyesight, and benefit qi and strengthen yang.

But eat bitter gourd should also be careful not to damage the spleen and lungs. Although the weather is hot in summer, people should not eat too much bitter food, and it is best to mix it with spicy food (such as pepper, pepper, onion and garlic), so as to avoid bitterness and help to replenish lung qi.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-bitter gourd