Efficacy of loofah
Ingredients: Luffa is rich in glycosides, bitter taste, mucilage, wood glue, citrulline, xylan and interferon.
Nature and taste: cold in nature, bitter and slightly sweet in taste.
Meridian tropism: liver and stomach
Efficacy: Luffa has the effects of clearing away heat, detoxicating, cooling blood to stop bleeding, dredging meridians, promoting blood circulation, caring skin, resisting cancer, etc., and can treat diseases such as phlegm, asthma, cough, galactorrhea, fever, polydipsia, aching bones and muscles, bloody stool, etc.
Function of loofah
1, anti-scurvy: Luffa has a high content of vitamin C, which is 8 mg per 100 grams. It can be used to fight scurvy and prevent various vitamin C deficiency. > > Medicinal value of goose eggs
2, brain: due to the high content of vitamin B in loofah, it is beneficial to the brain development of children and the brain health of middle-aged and elderly people.
3. Anti-virus and anti-allergy: The extract of Luffa has obvious preventive effect on Japanese encephalitis virus, and a kind of anti-allergic substance, Xiegen Alkyd, is also extracted from the tissue culture solution of Luffa, which has strong anti-allergic effect.
4, treatment of sinusitis: dry loofah baked in an iron pan, ground into fine powder. Take 6 grams each time, and take it with warm boiled water on an empty stomach in the morning for 8 days.
5. Cleaning furniture: When the loofah is ripe, a layer of reticular fibers will be generated in the melon meat, which can be used to wash the kitchen utensils and furniture after being extracted.
6, beauty: the juice of the stem of Luffa has a special function of maintaining the elasticity of the panel, which can beautify and wrinkle. Luffa contains B vitamins to prevent panel aging and vitamin C to whiten the panel, which can protect the panel, eliminate plaque and make the panel white and tender. It is a rare beauty product, so Luffa juice is called "Beauty Water". It is also helpful for women to eat more loofah to regulate irregular menstruation.
7, antipyretic: Luffa is cold, cool and sweet, and has the functions of relieving summer heat, benefiting intestines, dispelling wind and resolving phlegm, cooling blood and detoxifying, dredging meridians, promoting qi circulation and removing blood stasis.
8, cough: raw loofah juice and honey a little service; Or cut off with loofah vine, drop a small cup of water naturally, stew hot and add rock sugar to treat whooping cough.
9, treatment of neurodermatitis: fresh loofah leaves are washed and smashed, and rubbed on the affected area of neurodermatitis until the local redness, even occult blood, once every seven days, to treat neurodermatitis.
A complete collection of luffa's practices
1, towel gourd tomato soup
Material: loofah100g, washed, peeled and cut into pieces; Tomatoes100g, cut into petals; 5g of scallops, washed, soaked and shredded; Garlic cloves, sesame oil and salt, chicken essence, soy sauce, vinegar, oyster sauce and other condiments are appropriate.
Practice: Put aside the pot, heat it, first fry garlic cloves for a while, then add dried Beth and loofah, stir-fry until loofah is soft, then add tomatoes, stir-fry and add 200ml of water, add seasoning to taste, and finally pour in sesame oil.
Efficacy: It has the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, relieving vexation and quenching thirst, and can relieve symptoms such as summer heat, boredom, thirst and dry throat.
2, towel gourd porridge
Material: loofah150g, washed, peeled, pulped and diced; Japonica rice100g, washed clean; A little sugar.
Practice: Put the loofah and japonica rice in the pot and add some water. After the fire is boiling, slowly cook it into porridge and add sugar.
Efficacy: It has the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, cooling blood and detoxifying, can prevent summer heat and heatstroke, and can moisturize and beautify the skin if eaten regularly.
3. Stewed fish balls with loofah and straw mushroom
Material: 400 grams of loofah, washed and peeled, cut into corners; Volvariella volvacea150g,
Practice: Wash the pedicel, cut it in half, boil it in boiling water, put it in the pot again, add water, simmer with ginger slices, raw onions and cooking wine for 10 minute, and pick it up. Appropriate amount of salt and pepper. Put it in a pot, add about 1 liter of water, bring it to a boil with strong fire, add 250g of fish balls, loofah and straw mushroom, simmer until cooked, and add salt and pepper.
Efficacy: It has the functions of clearing away summer heat and relieving fever, invigorating spleen and benefiting qi, and can relieve summer heat, thirst, fatigue, anorexia and other symptoms.
4. Fresh bamboo shoot soup with loofah fillets
Ingredients: 250 grams of loofah, peeled and washed, obliquely cut into diamonds; 300g of raw carp meat, fresh bamboo shoots100g,
Practice: wash each, cut into thin slices, roll for a while with boiling water, and pick it up; Ginger slices, scallion, cooking oil, cooking wine, salt and pepper. Heat an oil pan, add water 1 l, add oil, cooking wine, ginger slices, fresh bamboo shoots and loofah, boil over strong fire until cooked, add fish fillets, roll until just cooked, and then add scallion, salt and pepper.
Efficacy: it has the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, invigorating spleen and stomach, promoting fluid production and relieving annoyance, and can relieve summer heat, polydipsia, poor appetite, and unfavorable defecation.