The effect of boiling old luffa pulp in water

We all know that luffa is a plant that is planted in spring and harvested in autumn. When we start to grow vegetables, we plant some luffa. By the end of summer, At the beginning of autumn, the loofah will be mature and can be picked and eaten. The loofah can be fried and eaten, or boiled into soup. If you want to boil water with an old loofah gourd, you need to let the loofah grow older before picking it. , what are the effects of boiling old loofah in water?

1. Opening the meridians and activating meridians: The loofah is in the shape of a long cylindrical or long spindle, and the whole system is composed of multiple layers of silk fibers interwoven into a segmented network. The shape of the body is similar to the veins of the human body, so this product has the effect of unblocking the meridians and activating the meridians. For qi and blood stasis caused by various reasons, chest and hypochondrium pain, abdominal pain, low back pain, testicular pain caused by blocked veins, amenorrhea in women, breast milk obstruction, etc., use this product to unblock the meridians, promote qi and blood, and relieve pain and unblock the meridians. , then all pains will heal on their own, Qi and blood will be smooth, menstruation will return, and milk will be released, so it is a good product for stimulating menstruation and activating collaterals.

2. Clear away heat and resolve phlegm: Luffa is sweet in taste, cold in nature, moist in nature, cold in nature, and can clear away heat in the lung meridian. Cough, asthma, phlegm and other symptoms caused by Jiangshisi. This product can clear away heat from the lungs, moisten the lungs and resolve phlegm, treating both the symptoms and the root causes.

3. Cooling blood and stopping bleeding: Luffa has cold and heat-clearing properties and charcoal-preserving properties. It enters the blood and can cool the blood. The charcoal can stop bleeding, so it can cool the blood and stop bleeding. It is used for bleeding in the stool, metrorrhagia and other blood syndromes. It is effective and best used by patients with blood heat. It can cool the blood and stop bleeding.

4. Rheumatism syndrome: Luffa is good at dispelling wind and dredging meridians, but its medicinal effect is mild, so it is often used in compound prescriptions. It is used to treat rheumatic arthralgia, spasm of muscles and veins, and paralysis of limbs. It is often used in combination with rheumatoid arthritis, fangfeng, angelica root, and Millet Spatholobus.

5. Chest and flank swelling and pain: Luffa can enter the liver, activate blood circulation and unblock meridians. It is often used for chest and flank swelling and pain caused by qi and blood stasis. It is often used with Bupleurum, Cyperus rotunda, Trichosanthes melon bark, Yujin, etc. .

6. Lactation obstruction and mastitis: Luffa is light and beneficial, good at unblocking breast collaterals, and can be used to treat postpartum lactation or lactation obstruction. It is often associated with Wangbuliuxing, Passepartout, pangolin, and pig's trotters. Used equally; to treat mastitis swelling and pain, it is compatible with dandelion, fritillary, Trichosanthes trichosanthes, Qingpi, etc.

01 What are the benefits of drinking boiled water with loofah

Expelling wind and dredging collaterals, detoxifying and reducing phlegm.

It is light in body and good at laxatives. It enters the lungs to open up the lung collaterals, enters the stomach to unblock the stomach collaterals, and enters the liver to unblock the veins. It is mild in nature and cool in nature, clears away heat and detoxifies, clears the lungs and resolves phlegm, so it has the effect of dispelling wind and clearing away phlegm. It has the power of detoxifying and resolving phlegm.

02 Who is suitable for drinking loofah boiled water

1. If you have excessive phlegm, you can drink loofah boiled water

Use 5 grams of boiled water each time. Yes, once a day, it has a good effect of resolving phlegm and clearing meridians. Loofah is the filament obtained by picking loofah when it is old, peeling off the outer skin, and removing the seeds. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that it can "unblock meridians, harmonize blood vessels, resolve phlegm and smooth Qi".

2. For arthritis and gout, boil loofah in water and drink it

Many people don’t know that in addition to washing dishes, loofah can also be used to boil water and drink it, which has the effect of dispelling wind. The function of unblocking collaterals.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that loofah is effective in treating chest and hypochondrium pain, rheumatic arthralgia (various pains caused by rheumatism), meridian spasm, and lactation obstruction (new mothers have trouble coming out milk).

3. Breast swelling and pain before menstruation

Tangerine leaves 10, oysters 30, loofah 20, boil the three medicines together in water and drink them for a week, you can maintain 2-3 There is no distension and pain due to annual blockage. If these three medicines are powdered and made into tea, and taken with 3-5 grams of boiled water every day, breast hyperplasia and fibroids can be prevented.

4. Loofah treats cold sensitivity in the lower limbs below the knees

Go to the pharmacy and buy a pound of "loofah", divide it into 10 packets, boil water and drink it every day, usually it will be cured after 10 days . The pathology should be that the blood vessels are blocked and the meridians are blocked, so they are unblocked.