Loofah skin
Chinese medicine believes that prickly heat is due to the wet depression coupling, hot skin, the muscle coupling is not released due to the small children prone to prickly heat is also because of the delicate skin, sweat is not smooth.
With the loofah skin boiled water bath can remove prickly heat, clear heat and toxicity, and no side effects, the baby can also be used.
The loofah skin is actually a kind of Chinese medicine. Its nature is cool, Qing Dynasty herbal book "classification of herbal medicinal properties" in the record of its ability to "paint boils, retreat fire, swelling".
Usually eat loofah peeled off the skin do not throw away, put on the balcony to dry and put away. Bath time grab a handful of water into the pot to cook for 15 minutes (fresh loofah skin can also be cooked for a shorter period of time, the water can be open), the boiled loofah water mixed into the water bath can be. The loofah skin can also make tea.
Loofah skin tea
Ingredients: loofah skin, rock sugar (green tea).
Practice: soak the loofah in water for 10 minutes, clean. Use a scraper to scrape off the surface layer of loofah green skin, dry. Take some into a cup each time, add boiling water to brew, simmer for 10 minutes and drink. You can add rock sugar to flavor according to taste.
If you are not accustomed to the green flavor of loofah, you can boil the loofah first and then brew green tea to drink.
Functions: usually prone to real fire people, drink this tea is very suitable. Real fire will generally have a bitter thirst, mouth and tongue erosion, sore throat, bleeding gums or the phenomenon of fire bumps, the loofah skin tea has a heat, fire, cool blood effect, daily drink water can quickly relieve the symptoms of fire. Irritable, or occasionally a pimple, soak a cup of drink has the effect of reducing the fire acne.
Fresh loofah skin tea some plant green flavor, some people will drink not accustomed to, after drying the flavor will be better.
Loofah liquid
"Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Loofah liquid has through the meridians, line the work of the blood, used to wash the face of the big to dirt and grease." The traditional loofah water is the growth of the loofah vine cut off the flow of liquid juice, also known as "loofah injury flow of liquid". Using gauze dipped in loofah water to apply to the face can moisturize the skin. There is a poem in Dream of the Red Chamber (红楼梦外传): "There is a herb in Jiangnan that is not planted, and its fragrance comes from the hidden water. Twenty-four bridges of loofah dew, the achievement of the twelve hairpins of the Golden Hairpin."
The loofah water set whitening, moisturizing, wrinkle, anti-inflammatory, calming and other five major effects in one, the ancient beauty of it as a "fairy water" with.
Fresh loofah vine can try, no loofah juice, face effect is also significant. Methods: loofah washed and peeled, cut into small pieces, juice, put a compressed mask paper into it, and so full of juice, face 15 minutes, wash off. After the sun or dry skin, the compress will become soft and comfortable.
Loofah meat
Loofah meat can clear heat, moisturize the intestines and relieve intestinal heat evidence. It can treat heat evidence in our body such as blood in the intestines.
If you have blood-heat blood in stool, bleeding hemorrhoids, dryness of the large intestine, bowel movements, you can eat more loofah laxative, stir-fry or make soup are good.
Loofah carp soup, is to use the loofah to clear dampness and heat, very suitable for people with dampness and heat body to eat.
Note: loofah cool, diarrhea is not suitable for people to eat more.
Loofah
Loofah is to brush the bowl with the old loofah, the function of dredging the meridians, through the blood, in addition to wind and dampness, but also to help the maternal breastfeeding.
The loofah crucian carp soup
Ingredients: crucian carp, loofah 10 grams.
Practice: crucian carp is clean, under the frying pan frying; fried crucian carp and watermelon together into the casserole, add the right amount of water, large fire boil into a small fire, 30 minutes later can be.
Functions: dredge qi and blood, help maternal milk.
The family has gout patients can collect some loofah. Many diseases hide in the human body in the subtle place, like hiding in the corner of the dust, and orange and loofah good at drilling into these tiny places to clean. Tangerine is favored to dredge the phlegm in the veins, while the loofah is favored to remove the wind and dampness in the veins.
Loofah tea
Ingredients: 10 grams of loofah, 10 grams of cinnamon sticks, 5 longan.
Practice: boil water to drink tea, gout patients can usually drink, when the pain can double the amount of loofah.
Functions: loofah water, dampness, Gui Zhi warm Yang water. People with arthritis and gout can use it to regulate and relieve pain with remarkable effect.
Synthesis: China Traditional Chinese Medicine Newspaper