1, promote diet, diminish inflammation and reduce fever: Momordica charantia glycosides and picrosins can stimulate appetite, strengthen spleen and stimulate appetite; Quinine, an alkaloid substance contained in it, has the effects of promoting diuresis and blood circulation, diminishing inflammation and reducing fever, clearing away heart fire and improving eyesight.
2, anti-cancer and anti-cancer: Bitter gourd protein component and a lot of vitamin C can improve the immune function of the body, so that immune cells have the effect of killing cancer cells; Momordica charantia juice contains some protein components, which can strengthen macrophage ability and is effective for lymphosarcoma and leukemia in clinic.
Tips of China Eating Net: The trypsin inhibitor extracted from bitter gourd seeds can inhibit the protease secreted by cancer cells and prevent the growth of malignant tumors.
3. Lowering blood sugar: The fresh juice of Momordica charantia contains momordicin and substances similar to insulin, which has a good hypoglycemic effect and is an ideal food for diabetic patients.
4, health care and beauty: In the hot summer, women often apply iced bitter gourd slices, which can immediately relieve the dryness of the skin, and bitter gourd can also moisturize the fair skin, calm and moisturize the skin.
The nutritional value of bitter gourd is extremely rich, and its effects of clearing away heat and summer heat, diuresis and cooling blood, relieving fatigue and clearing heart, benefiting qi and strengthening yang are very beneficial to our friends in summer.
5, acne: bitter gourd is cold and bitter, enters the heart, lungs and stomach, and has the functions of clearing away summer heat, quenching thirst, lowering blood pressure, reducing blood fat, caring skin and promoting metabolism. Bitter gourd is rich in vitamin B 1, vitamin C and minerals, which can maintain vitality after long-term consumption and is of great benefit to the treatment of acne.
6, weight loss: bitter gourd diet needs to adhere to and need to eat at least two or three pieces a day, while supplementing the necessary nutrition, simply eating bitter gourd can not provide the body with the necessary nutrition, weight loss should be based on the principle of good health.
The disadvantages of eating bitter gourd
1, bitter gourd contains more oxalic acid, which can combine with calcium in food and affect the absorption of calcium by human body. If you eat bitter gourd in large quantities for a long time, it will lead to calcium deficiency.
Therefore, bitter gourd should not be eaten more. In order to overcome this shortcoming of bitter gourd, it is best to cut it and soak it in boiling water before cooking it, so that some oxalic acid can be removed and its adverse reactions can be greatly reduced.
2. Bitter gourd contains an insulin-like substance called "polypeptide-P", which has the function of lowering blood sugar. Therefore, people with hypoglycemia should not eat bitter gourd in large quantities for a long time.