Bitter melon is a cucurbitaceae annual climbing herbaceous plants, its fruit is edible, high nutritional value, contains a variety of nutrients, rich in vitamin B?1, with the prevention and treatment of beriberi, maintain the normal function of the heart, promote milk secretion and enhance the appetite and so on. Bitter melon contains vitamin C is vegetable melon, lucerne 10 to 20 times, with the prevention of scurvy, protect cell membranes, detoxification, preventing atherosclerosis, anti-cancer, improve the body's ability to stress, prevent colds and flu, protect the heart and other roles. Bitter melon contains insulin-like substances - polypeptide - P, its role in lowering blood sugar than the treatment of diabetes drugs benzenesulfonylurea is also obvious, bitter melon also contains a kind of proteolipid substances, with the stimulation and enhancement of the animal body immune cells to devour the ability of cancer cells, which can be used with the alkaloids in the body together with quinine to play a role in the fight against cancer.

The Chinese medicine believes that the bitter melon has the effect of clearing heat and eliminating summer heat, nourishing blood and gas, tonifying the kidney and spleen, nourishing the liver and eyesight, and is useful in treating dysentery, sores and swelling, fever and thirst, heatstroke fever, prickly heat, conjunctivitis, and short and red urine, etc. The bitter melon is also cold in nature, so it can stimulate and enhance the ability of animals to eat cancerous cells. Because of the bitter melon cold, so the spleen and stomach cold people should not eat more.

Bitter melon is cool, refreshing and not greasy, in the summer after eating feel cool and comfortable, there is a clear heart and appetizing effect. Bitter melon, although bitter, but it will never pass the bitter taste to "others", such as the bitter melon burn fish, stewed fish, fish by no means stained with bitterness, so the bitter melon also has a "gentleman dish" nickname. If the bitter melon made of herbal tea in the summer drinking, can make a person feel the summer clear God, thirst are eliminated.

The therapeutic value of bitter gourd

Bitter gourd smell bitter, non-toxic, cold, into the heart, liver, spleen, lung meridian;

has a clear heat, bright eyes, detoxification, diuretic cool blood, relief of labor and clear the mind, the benefit of the efficacy of the Yang;

The main treatment of heatstroke, summer heat and thirst, summer boils, prickly heat, eye redness and pain, carbuncle and swollen toxins, burns, urine, and other illnesses.

Bitter melon contains protein, carbohydrates, magnesium, calcium, a variety of amino acids, bitter melon glycosides, bitter melon protein, selenium, zinc, vitamin c, potassium, carotene and other ingredients.

Bitter melon contains pectin, which can reduce the concentration of cholesterol in the blood and has the effect of preventing fat aggregation.

This ingredient can also combine with other cholesterol-lowering substances such as vitamin C, magnesium, calcium, manganese and selenium to form new compounds, thus enhancing the efficacy of lipid-lowering.

Pharmacology and nutritional studies have concluded that bitter melon is rich in "seventh class" nutrients - dietary fiber, dietary fiber can accelerate the frequency of intestinal peristalsis, accelerate the excretion of intestinal contents, but also because of the dietary fiber can reduce the food calorific, can delay the rate of absorption of food, can be used to reduce the rate of absorption of food, can be used to reduce the rate of absorption of food, can be used to reduce the rate of absorption of food. Can slow down the absorption of food, easy to produce a sense of satiety, so the obesity also has an inhibitory effect.

In recent years, research has also found that bitter melon has a lower blood sugar, lower blood pressure, anti-cancer, weight loss, laxative function.

Modern medical research believes that the bitter melon cold, bitter taste, with heat and appetizer, detoxification of the eyes, etc., adapted to the treatment of heartburn, heatstroke, bad breath, fever and thirst, dysentery, red eye pain, a variety of cancers and other diseases.

Nutritional value of bitter melon

1, promote diet, anti-inflammatory fever:

Bitter melon in the bitter melon glycosides and bitter taste can enhance appetite, spleen and stomach; contained alkaloids quinine, diuretic blood, anti-inflammatory fever, clearing the mind and eyesight effect;

2, anti-cancer:

Bitter melon protein components and a large number of vitamin C can Improve the body's immune function, so that the immune cells have the role of killing cancer cells; bitter melon juice contains a certain protein component, can strengthen the macrophage ability, clinically effective for lymphosarcoma and leukemia; extracted from the bitter melon seeds of trypsin inhibitors, can inhibit cancer cells secreted proteases, preventing the growth of malignant tumors;

3, reduce blood sugar:

Bitter melon's fresh Juice, containing bitter melon glycosides and insulin-like substances, has a good hypoglycemic effect, is the ideal food for diabetics.

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Name: bitter melon (as the name suggests, is because of that particular bitter taste)

Alias: cool melon ("Guangzhou Botanical Records" recorded)

Nickname: gentleman (no matter with which kind of vegetable with, will not make it bitter)