Benefits:

1, promote diet, anti-inflammatory fever: bitter melon in the bitter melon glucoside and bittersweet can enhance appetite, spleen and stomach; contained alkaloids qui

nin, have diuretic blood, anti-inflammatory fever, clear the mind and purpose.

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 components, can strengthen the ability of macrophages, clinically effective for lymphosarcoma and leukemia.

3, lowering blood sugar: the fresh juice of bitter melon, containing bitter melon glycosides and insulin-like substances, has a good hypoglycemic effect, is the ideal food for diabetics.

4, health and beauty: in the hot summer women often apply on the ice over the bitter melon slices, can immediately lift the dry skin problem, and bitter melon can also moisturize the white skin, calm and moisturize the skin.

Bad:

1, bitter melon contains more oxalic acid, oxalic acid can be combined with calcium in food, affecting the body's absorption of calcium. If you eat a lot of bitter melon for a long time, it will lead to calcium deficiency.

2, bitter melon contains a called "polypeptide - P" similar to insulin substances, has the function of lowering sugar, therefore, suffering from hypoglycemia, the crowd should not long-term consumption of large quantities of bitter melon.

Expanded Information:

Clearing the heat and detoxification: Bitter gourd can drain away the heart of the heat and eliminate the 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 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 fire.

Nurturing and rejuvenating skin: often eat 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, damp heat 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 rash, can be cured as soon as possible; bitter melon boiled water or as a gourmet food, can be dissipated to solve the summer heat.

Lowering blood sugar: mussels and bitter gourd soup is a top product for lowering blood sugar. Bitter melon crude extract contains insulin-like substances, there are obvious hypoglycemic effect. According to Chinese medicine, bitter melon is sweet, bitter, cold and cool, can clear heat, remove annoyance, quench thirst; mussels are sweet, salty and cold, can clear 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.

Nourishing blood and nourishing 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 not to damage the spleen and lungs of the gas. Despite the summer heat, but people should not eat too much bitter food, and it is best to match the pungent food (such as chili, pepper, onion, garlic), so as to avoid the bitter taste into the heart, which helps to tonify the lungs.

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