As food, people's attitudes towards bitter gourd can be divided into two camps. People who like to eat bitter gourd regard it as delicious food on the table, and think it tastes bitter and fragrant, especially to stimulate appetite. People who don't like bitter gourd just stay away from it because of its bitter taste.
But from a medical point of view, bitter gourd is not so controversial. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that bitter gourd has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, removing annoyance and detoxifying, improving eyesight and benefiting qi, and strengthening yang. Pharmacological analysis in recent years shows that momordicin contained in momordica charantia has the functions of rapidly lowering blood sugar, preventing and improving diabetic complications, regulating blood lipid and improving immunity. Therefore, nutritionists and doctors recommend bitter gourd as a good medicine to treat diabetes, and suggest that middle-aged and elderly friends with diabetes can eat more bitter gourd.
Bitter gourd, the fruit of cucurbitaceae, is cultivated all over the country, also known as golden pear, grape and grape. It is a good food therapy with the same origin of medicine and food. Bitter gourd never penetrates bitter taste into other ingredients, so it is also called DOUBLE _ quotes, a gentleman's dish.
Bitter gourd, bitter and cold in nature, is rich in vitamin C, and has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving fatigue, clearing away heart fire and improving eyesight, benefiting qi and strengthening yang. Foreign scientists have also extracted a kind of quinine from bitter gourd, which contains physiologically active protein, which can improve the function of immune system and is also beneficial to skin regeneration and wound healing. Therefore, eating bitter gourd often can also enhance the vitality of the cortex and make the skin tender and fit. Not long ago, scientists extracted and exported an insulin-like drug (Dofu -P) from Momordica charantia L., which has a remarkable curative effect on diabetes and a remarkable hypoglycemic effect.
Momordica charantia is rich in nutrition, and its protein, fat, carbohydrate and so on are higher in melon vegetables, especially the content of vitamin C is as high as 84 mg per 100 grams, which is about 5 times that of wax gourd, 0/4 times that of cucumber and 2/0/times that of pumpkin, ranking first among melons. Bitter gourd also contains crude fiber, carotene, momordicin, phosphorus, iron, various minerals and amino acids. Bitter gourd also contains more lipoprotein, which can promote the human immune system to resist cancer cells. Regular consumption can enhance human immune function. Bitter taste of bitter gourd is due to its antimalarial quinine, which can inhibit the overexcited body temperature center. So bitter gourd has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying.
Bitter gourd is fragrant and delicious because of its bitter taste. It is regarded as a rare food therapy. Since ancient times, there has been a saying in China that bitterness can clear away heat and strengthen the stomach. Chinese medicine believes that bitter gourd tastes bitter and cold, and can clear away heat and purge fire. Bitter taste of bitter gourd can stimulate the secretion of saliva and gastric juice, greatly increase appetite, and also have the effect of clearing away heat and preventing heatstroke. So eating bitter gourd in summer is the most suitable.
Bitter gourd is a commonly used unilateral therapeutic agent in traditional Chinese medicine. For example, bitter gourd seeds are fried and ground into powder, 6 grams each time, and yellow sprinkling can cure impotence and nocturnal emission; Pouring fresh bitter gourd juice or decoction is a good supplementary diet therapy for liver fire, stomach heat, 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 boiled water or cooked food can dissipate heat and relieve summer heat; Bitter gourd is a good medicine for fever after drying in the sun.