Bitter melon and onion these two foods can be put together stir-fried, just a lot of people will not choose this method of production, is to make the flavor of the two ingredients above become not very tasty, especially the bitter melon flavor of a lot of people can not accept, mainly because of which there will be a certain bitter taste, but the bitter melon itself is rich in a lot of nutritive value, such as purging and lowering the efficacy of glucose and so on.

1, heat detoxification

Bitter melon can drain away the heart of the heat, eliminate toxins in the body. The best way to eat bitter melon is still cold. Cold can be very good to retain the vitamins contained in the bitter melon. If you use the method of stir-frying, will make these vitamins in the process of stir-frying a lot of loss, and stir-frying after the oil content is relatively high, people will consume more fat, can not play the role of cool and defeat the role of fire.

2, skin rejuvenation

Eating bitter melon can enhance the cortex vitality, so that the skin becomes tender and healthy. With fresh bitter melon mashed juice or decoction, on the liver fire red eyes, stomach pain, hot and humid dysentery, are auxiliary therapeutic good; take fresh bitter melon mashed compress, can treat carbuncle, boils; summer children prone to prickly heat, will be sliced and rubbed on the body of the prickly heat, can be cured as soon as possible; bitter melon boiled water or as a gourmet food, can be dissipated to solve the summer heat.

3, hypoglycemic

Mussels and bitter melon soup is hypoglycemic. Bitter melon crude extract containing similar insulin substances, have obvious hypoglycemic effect. Chinese medicine believes that the bitter melon is sweet, bitter and cold, can clear the heat, remove the annoyance, quench thirst; mussels are sweet, salty and cold, can clear the heat and nourish yin, quench thirst and diuretic. The two together, clearing heat and nourishing yin, applicable to diabetes favoring stomach yin deficiency with heat.

4, nourish the blood and nourish the liver

Bitter melon flavor bitter, raw is cold, cooked is warm. Raw food to clear the summer heat and fire, relieve the heat in addition to annoyance; cooked food to nourish blood nourish the liver, moisten the spleen and tonic kidney, in addition to the evil heat, to solve the fatigue, clear the mind and eyesight, the benefit of qi and Yang. But eat bitter melon should also pay attention to not damage the spleen and lungs of the gas. Despite the summer heat, people should not eat too much bitter food, and it is best to match with pungent food (such as chili peppers, peppers, green onions, garlic), so as to avoid the bitter taste into the heart, which will help to replenish lung qi.

Medicinal value

Bitter melon also has a high medicinal value, the ancient Chinese medical doctor Li Shizhen said: "Bitter melon, bitter cold and non-toxic, lowering the evil heat, relief of fatigue, clearing the mind and bright eyes, benefit the qi and Yang." It means that bitter melon has the role of strengthening the spleen and stomach, clearing heat, clearing the eyes and stopping dysentery, cooling the blood and detoxification. In recent years, American scientists found that bitter melon contains some kind of physiological activity of the protein, this protein into the animal body can drive the animal immune cells to eliminate cancer cells. Chinese scientists also isolated from the bitter melon insulin 23, with obvious hypoglycemic effect, the ideal food for diabetics.