Luffa leaves are leaves of Cucurbitaceae plants Luffa and Luffa Guangdong. Commonly used for sores and tinea, snake bite, soup fire injury, sore throat, traumatic bleeding, summer heat and polydipsia. Harvest in summer and autumn, dry or use sparingly.
The shape of Guangdong Luffa is basically the same as that of Luffa, but its stem has obvious edges and corners, and the lower part of its tendrils is also angular. The stamens of male flowers are 3, 1 cell 1 cell, 2 with 2 cells; The ovary is angular, rod-shaped and hairless, and there are 8- 10 longitudinal edges outside the fruit.
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The general population can eat loofah, and pregnant women, parturients, lactating mothers and babies can eat loofah. Women with irregular menstruation, physical fatigue, phlegm and cough, and postpartum milk obstruction are suitable to eat more loofah. However, people with internal cold due to physical weakness and diarrhea should not eat more loofah. Because loofah is cold, eating too much may aggravate physical weakness, lead to diarrhea and cause some gastrointestinal problems.
Luffa also contains a special class of phytochemicals-saponins, which have the functions of regulating lipid metabolism, lowering cholesterol, resisting microbes, resisting tumors, thrombi, regulating immunity and resisting oxidation.
However, saponin is also a kind of toxin, which can stimulate the digestive tract in a certain dose, leading to poisoning symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea. Luffa will produce a large number of saponins under improper planting conditions and storage, which will make the taste of Luffa bitter.
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