2 English reference snake gourd [2 1 Century Bilingual Science and Technology Dictionary]
A sponge cucumber [2 1 Century English-Chinese-English Bidirectional Dictionary]
A dishcloth gourd [2 1 Century English-Chinese-English Bidirectional Dictionary]
A loofah [2 1 Century English-Chinese-English Bidirectional Dictionary]
Overview Luffa is the fresh and tender fruit of gourd plant Luffa or Guangdong Luffa, also known as hanging melon, which originated in Nanyang and was introduced to China in the Ming Dynasty and became a vegetable that people often eat. Luffa has the highest medicinal value and can be used as medicine all over the body. Luffa contains various kinds of nutrients in melon food, and special substances such as saponins, bitter quality of Luffa, mucilage, wood glue, citrulline, xylan and interferon have certain special functions.
4 Another name of loofah is loofah, which is also called Tianlufa, Tianluo, Honeydew Melon, Bugua, Tiandiaogua, Pure Sunflower Melon, Daoyangcai, Shuigua, Flocculent Melon, Manggua and Miangua.
5 loofah is rich in nutrients, and each 500g contains 7 grams of protein, 0.05g of fat, 2 1 g of carbohydrate, 2.3g of crude fiber, 0/30mg of calcium, 3.7mg of iron, 0/.49mg of carotene/kloc-0 and 0/thiamine.
6 Analysis of Nutritional Value of Luffa contains B vitamins to prevent skin aging, vitamin C to whiten skin and other ingredients, which can protect skin, eliminate plaque and make skin 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. Saponins contained in towel gourd leaves can relieve cough and disease, and have a certain inhibitory effect on pneumococcus. Loofah seeds kill insects. Guateng extract can treat chronic tracheitis and chronic sinusitis.
1. Anti-scurvy:
The content of vitamin C in towel gourd is high, which can be used to fight scurvy and prevent various vitamin C deficiency.
2. Brain-strengthening beauty:
Because of the high content of vitamin B in towel gourd, it is beneficial to the brain development of children and the brain health of middle-aged and elderly people. The juice of the stem of Luffa has the special function of keeping skin elastic and can beautify and wrinkle;
3. Anti-virus and anti-allergy:
Luffa extract has obvious preventive effect on Japanese encephalitis virus, and a kind of anti-allergic substance, diarrhea alkyd, is also extracted from Luffa tissue culture solution, which has strong anti-allergic effect.
7 purchase of loofah: peel the fresh loofah, squeeze out the juice and mix it with the same amount of honey. Apply a small amount to your face 10 15 minutes, and wash it with warm water. It is often applied to clean the skin and remove wrinkles.
8 Luffa is suitable for the general population.
1. Women with irregular menstruation, physical fatigue, phlegm and cough, and postpartum milk obstruction are suitable to eat more loofah;
2. People with internal cold and diarrhea should not eat more.
9 therapeutic effect of loofah loofah is edible when it is young and tender, and used as medicine when it is old. Has the effects of dispelling pathogenic wind, resolving phlegm, cooling blood and detoxicating. Luffa is sweet and cool, and enters the lung and liver meridians. Clearing heat and resolving phlegm, cooling blood and detoxifying. Treat lung heat, phlegm, asthma, cough, intestinal wind, hemorrhoids and leakage, bloody stranguria and carbuncle and furuncle. [ 1]
Luffa is sweet and cool, and enters the liver and stomach;
Luffa has the effects of eliminating heat and phlegm, cooling blood and detoxicating, relieving summer heat and relieving restlessness, dredging meridians and expelling wind;
Luffa is used to treat fever, polydipsia, phlegm, asthma, cough, intestinal wind, hemorrhoids, metrorrhagia, leukorrhagia, bloody stranguria, sores and swelling, and women's galactorrhea.
Luffa is sweet in taste and flat in nature. It passes through the twelve meridians, and can activate collaterals, clear away heat and resolve phlegm.
10 suggestions for eating loofah 1. loofah is not suitable for raw food, but can be cooked and taken in soup; Or mash juice to coat the affected area.
2. Luffa is rich in juice, so it should be cut and made now, so as to avoid the nutrients flowing away with the juice.
3. When cooking loofah, attention should be paid to keeping it light as far as possible, using less oil, and using monosodium glutamate or pepper to enhance the taste, so as to show the fragrant and refreshing characteristics of loofah.
4. Luffa tastes sweet, so it is not advisable to add heavy sauces such as soy sauce and bean paste when cooking, so as not to grab the taste.
1 1 The recommended consumption of loofah is 30-200g per meal.
12 dictionary of traditional Chinese medicine loofah is the name of traditional Chinese medicine, which comes from southern Yunnan materia medica [2].
12. 1 Loofah's alias: dragonflies, dragonflies and water melons [2].
12.2 comes from the fruit of Luffa cylindrica (L.) Roem. [2].
12.3 sexual taste is sweet and cool [2]. Into the liver and stomach meridians [2].
12.4 The main functions are clearing away heat, resolving phlegm, cooling blood and detoxifying [2].
1. Treat fever, polydipsia, phlegm, asthma and cough, intestinal wind, hemorrhoid and leakage, leukorrhagia and bloody stranguria [2]. Oral administration: decoction, 9 ~15g (fresh 60 ~120g) [2].
2. Treat toothache caused by wind insects, and study the burning of dry products [2].
12.5 chemical constituents this product contains a variety of luffa saponins, among which luffa saponin a has antitussive effect [2].
13 * Dictionary Luffa 13. 1 Source "South Yunnan Materia Medica"
13.2 Pinyin name s and gu ā
13.3 The aliases of loofah are Tianlufa, Tianluo, Mangua (Skill Prescription), Miangua (Continuation Skill Prescription), Bugua (A Compendium of Ancient and Modern Things), Tianluogua (Puji Prescription), Fish Qiu (Miraculous Recipe) and Tiandiao. Tianluoxu (Qunfangpu), Spinning Thread (Compilation of Medical Forest), Caigua (Collection of Plants), Shuigua (Record of Herb Collection in Lingnan), Cuogua (Flora of Medicine in China), Cuogua, Brick Melon (Flora of Guangzhou) and Cuogua.
13.4 comes from fresh fruits of Cucurbitaceae plant Luffa or Luffa Guangdong; Or the old ripe fruit (skull) dried up after frost. The tender loofah is picked in summer and autumn. Old loofah (Skull) must be harvested after autumn.
13.5 original form ① Luffa
Annual climbing herb, the whole plant is densely pilose when young, and nearly hairless when old. The stem can reach 7 ~10 m long, round, often angular, the young stem is green, sparsely pilose, and the tendrils are usually 3-pronged. Leaves alternate; Petiole polygonal, pilose, 4 ~ 9 cm long; The leaves are heart-shaped, 8-25 cm long, 0/5-25 cm wide, palmately 3-7-lobed, with triangular lobes, tapering or acute apex, fine teeth on the edge, dark green on the top and light green on the bottom, with bristles when young, rough and hairless when old, and 3-7 main veins. Flowers unisexual, monoecious. Female flowers are solitary and stalked, and male flowers are racemes; Calyx 5-parted, lobes green, ovate-lanceolate, outside puberulent; Corolla yellow, pale yellow or nearly white, 5-parted, lobes broadly obovate, 3 ~ 5 cm long, 2.4 ~ 4.5 cm wide, and wavy edges; Stamens 3-5, anthers 2-loculed, curved like "S", filaments separated. The base is swollen and pilose; Sublocular, cylindrical, 3-loculed, ovules numerous, stigma 3, hypertrophy, 2-lobed and abduction. The fruit is always drooping, long and cylindrical, and18 ~ 60 cm long; When young, the green belt is pink and white, with dark green longitudinal stripes, and when old, it becomes yellow-green or green-brown; There are tough reticular fibers in the pulp. The seeds are oblong, flat, black and winged at the edge. The flowering period is from May to July. The fruiting period is from June to September.
It is cultivated all over the field.
② Guangdong loofah
The shape is similar to that of the above species, but the differences are as follows: the leaves are palmately lobed; 2 ~ 3 stamens; The fruit of Zanthoxylum bungeanum is short and small with obvious edges and corners.
Cultivated in Guangdong and Guangxi.
The roots (Luffa root), stems (Luffa rattan), juice in stems (water of Japanese radish), leaves (Luffa leaf), flowers (Luffa flower), pedicels (Luffa pedicle), peels (Luffa skin), fibers (Luffa sponge) and seeds (Luffa seed) of the above two plants are also used for medicine, with detailed articles.
13.6 chemical constituents The fruit of Luffa contains saponin, bitter quality of Luffa, a lot of mucus and citrulline. The seedlings contain cucurbitacin. The juice of towel gourd contains saponin, mucus, xylan, fat, protein and vitamins.
The whole plant of Guangdong Luffa has the function of killing insects. Fruit is very toxic to fish. Rotenone is not found, but it contains hydrocyanic acid.
13.7 is sweet and cool.
① Compendium of Materia Medica: "Sweet, flat and non-toxic."
2 "Ben Jing Feng Yuan": "Sweet, cold. Non-toxic. "
③ Compendium of Medical Forest: "Sweet and salty, cold."
13.8 entering the liver and stomach meridians.
(1) "Deserve Materia Medica": "Start with the Taiyin Sutra."
(2) Seeking Truth from Materia Medica: "Entering the meridians, entering the intestine and stomach."
③ Rejuvenation of Materia Medica: "Entering the Liver and Kidney."
13.9 has the functions of clearing away heat, resolving phlegm, cooling blood and detoxicating. Treat fever, body heat, polydipsia, phlegm, asthma, cough, intestinal wind, hemorrhoids, vaginal discharge, bloody stranguria, furuncle, breast obstruction and carbuncle.
(1) Zhu Zhenheng: "If acne is not cured quickly, it will burn if it is dry. Put it into vermilion and mix it with honey and water."
(2) "Herbal Cover": "Treat acne and foot pain, burn ashes, and apply it."
③ "Introduction to Medicine": "Treat all malignant sores of men and women, residual poison of acne rash in children, gangrene and furuncle."
(4) Compendium of Materia Medica: "Cooking removes heat and benefits intestines. Old people burn sexual clothes, remove wind and phlegm, cool blood and detoxify, kill insects, dredge meridians, promote blood circulation and secrete milk; "It can be used to treat bleeding during urination and defecation, hemorrhoid, leakage and collapse, jaundice, hernia, egg swelling, blood gas pain, carbuncle, sore swelling, toothlessness, acne rash and fetal poison."
⑤ Wang Lianshi's Book of Herbs Collection: "Heaven Skull, cure women with leukorrhagia, bloating and accumulation, and all bones and muscles ache."
⑥ "Luchuan Materia Medica": "Promoting fluid production to quench thirst, relieving summer heat and relieving annoyance. Treat fever, thirst, body heat and irritability. "
13. 10 Usage and dosage of Luffa for oral administration: decoction, 3-5 RMB (2-4 RMB for fresh ones); Or burn ashes and grind them into powder. External use: Pouring juice or grinding and dressing.
13. 1 1 note ① "southern Yunnan materia medica": "it's not advisable to eat more, which is harmful to people's lives and makes them reluctant to lift up."
② "Ben Jing Feng Yuan": "Loofah is tender, cold and slippery, eating more and diarrhea."
13. 12 Attachment ① Treatment of intestinal wind: no matter how much cotton and melon are, the ash is stored, the wine is mixed with two money, and it is hollow. ("Continued Skills")
② Treatment of hemorrhoid leakage and proctoptosis: Luffa burned ash, lime for many years and realgar each cost five yuan. At the end, mix and paste the gallbladder, chicken egg white and sesame oil, and collect it. ("Sun Tianren's Effective Prescription")
③ Treatment of hemorrhoid caused by alcohol: Luffa is burning, grinded, and served with alcohol for two yuan. (Compendium of Materia Medica)
4 cure white collapse: palm (burning ash) and loofah. The upper part is divided into equal parts, which are fine powder. The hollow wine is adjusted. ("miracle cure")
⑤ Treating wind and heat: Luffa is burnt, ground and rubbed with water. (Compendium of Materia Medica)
⑥ Treatment of carbuncle is not convergent, and the sore is too deep: towel gourd is frequently rubbed with juice. ("Ren Zhai Zhi Fang")
⑦ Treatment of blisters and wet sores: Luffa juice and powder are frequently applied. (Compendium of Materia Medica)
⑧ Cure the ulcer of the jade stem: pound the juice with loofah and lotus seeds, and rub it with gallnut. (Zhu Zhenheng)
Attending to treat dry blood gas pain, women's blood gas is not good, and they rush to the heart diaphragm and become dry blood gas: a towel gourd, burning, hollow warm wine service. ("Shouyu Shenfang")
⑾ Treatment of meridian obstruction: dry a towel gourd as the end, mix it with pigeon blood into a cake, dry it in the day and grind it into the end. It costs two yuan each time. Under the hollow wine, take Siwutang three times first. ("Famous Maritime Party")
⑿ For treating abdominal pain caused by bloody stool due to wine dysentery, or those with five colors like fish brain: one dried loofah, burnt with skin, and served with hollow wine for two yuan. One side simmers it. ("experience prescription")
[13] Treatment of milk obstruction: the burning property of loofah lianzi, research. Take one or two dollars for wine, and be covered with sweat. ("Simple Unilateral")
[14] Treatment of toothache caused by wind insects: The frost-dried loofah is burnt, and it is rubbed at the end. ("Ren Zhai Zhi Fang")
(15) A proper amount of raw loofah, taken in soup, can prevent measles.
(16) Take a little raw towel gourd juice and honey; Or cut off with loofah vine, drop a small cup of water naturally, stew hot and add rock sugar to treat whooping cough.
(17) Raw several small loofahs (with pedicels), cut them off, put them in a casserole, and take thick juice to treat asthma.
(18) Raw loofah (or leaves), mashed to get juice, applied to the affected area, and treated acne vulgaris, yellow water sore, heat furuncle and urticaria.
(19) A towel gourd was frosted, chopped and soaked in boiling water to treat acute laryngitis and sore throat.
(20) 30 grams of towel gourd kernel, boiled silver carp food, less milk.
(2 1) Luffa seed is baked and ground into powder, and each dose is10g, which is not easy to cure expectoration.
(22) Fresh towel gourd leaves are washed and mashed, and applied to the affected area of neurodermatitis until local redness or even occult blood is seen, once every seven days to treat neurodermatitis.
(23) Old loofah (peeled), baked on a tile to dry and grind into powder, and mixed with yellow wine10g to treat lung abscess, hernia pain and postpartum abdominal pain.
(24) Instant loofah drink: one old loofah is washed, seeded and chopped, and then boiled with appropriate amount of water for one hour, and then the residue is removed. When the liquid juice continues to be boiled with low fire until it becomes thick, the fire is stopped, and white sugar powder100g is added, and the mixture is evenly mixed and bottled. At any time, use10g, and take it with boiling water. Can be used for treating acute and chronic pharyngitis, laryngitis and tonsillitis.
(25) Luffa lean broth: about 250g of fresh Luffa is cut into pieces, and about 200g of lean pork is sliced. Add appropriate amount of water to cook soup, season with salt after cooking, and eat with meals. It has the effects of clearing away heat, benefiting intestines, relieving summer heat and relieving annoyance. It is suitable for summer heat, polydipsia, early internal hemorrhoid and stool bleeding.
(26) acne is not fast. Use an old loofah three inches close to the pedicle, burn the skin, grind it into powder, and take it with sugar water.
(27) The carbuncle does not converge, and the wound is deep. There are loofah mashed juice frequently applied.
(28) Wind-heat rib swelling. Burn it with loofah, grind it into powder, and apply it with water.
(29) Chair sores. Bake with melon skin, grind into powder, mix with distilled spirit and apply.
(30) frostbite of hands and feet. Burn with old loofah, adjust wax and lard.
(3 1) Hemorrhoids, leakage and proctoptosis. Burn the towel gourd, lime for many years and realgar for 50 yuan each, grind it into powder, and apply it with pig bile, egg white and sesame oil until it is removed from the intestine.
(32) Blood flowing under intestinal wind. Burn the dried loofah with frost, grind it into powder, take two money in the hollow, and send the wine.
(33) Blood collapse. Burn the old loofah and palm ash equally, and serve with salt wine or salt soup.
(34) the milk is blocked. Use loofah lotus seeds to burn, grind them into powder, give one or two dollars for wine, and cover them with sweat.
(35) Intestinal gas pains, rushing around the umbilicus. Burn the old loofah with its pedicle and grind it into powder. Every time you take San Qian, the hot wine is adjusted. If the patient is seriously ill, it will disappear after taking it two or three times.
(36) Egg swelling and falling. Burn with old loofah, grind into powder, refine honey and make paste. Take a spoonful of good wine every night.
(37) Low back pain. Stir-fried with loofah seeds, mashed and served with wine. Apply slag to the pain.
(38) Laryngeal obstruction with swelling and pain. Poured with loofah pulp.
(39) Eliminating phlegm and relieving cough. Burn with loofah, grind into powder, and add dates to make balls, such as marbles. Take one pill each time and send it with warm wine.
(40) toothache is prevalent. Use a raw towel gourd, rub it with salt to keep it alive, grind it into the end, wipe your teeth frequently, and the saliva will heal. If the rib is swollen, it can be applied with water at the end. This prescription is ineffective in treating tooth decay.
(4 1) knife wound. Divide ancient lime, new lime, towel gourd root leaves and leek roots into equal parts, pound them to pieces, make them into cakes, dry them in the shade, grind them into powder and apply them. Stop bleeding, stop pain, promote granulation, and have special effects.
(42) The sores are persistent. Wash and rub with the old roots of loofah.
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