Silkmelon flesh, also known as loofah net, loofah shell, melon, fluffy melon flesh, Tianluo line, loofah tendon, loofah Luo, thousand layers of floor, for the cucurbitaceae annual herbaceous plant loofah mature fruit in the vascular bundles or loofah withered old fruit. Luffa is China's summer and fall season commonly used vegetables, most of the provinces and districts in the country, for cultivated products, to Jiangsu, Zhejiang produced by the quality of good. Loofah contains xylan, mannan, galactan, etc., decoction has obvious analgesic, sedative and anti-inflammatory effect, clinical research shows that loofah internal and external treatment of acute mastitis, ocular herpes zoster, thyroid adenoma and so on have a certain efficacy.