Snake beans not cooked, will hurt the stomach, diarrhea, indigestion, affecting health.

Snake beans are also known as snake melon. Snake gourd per 100g of young fruit containing 94~95g of water, protein 0.5~0.9g, fat 0.1g, crude fiber 0.8g, carbohydrate ratio of 3~4g, also contains mineral salts and other nutrients. Snake gourd clears summer heat, diuretic and hypotensive, very favorable to human health.

Snake gourd to young fruit for vegetables, but young leaves and young stems can also be eaten. Snake gourd per kilogram of young fruit containing protein 5 to 9 grams, carbohydrates 30 to 40 grams, as well as other nutrients. The flesh is fluffy and slightly sweet.

Expanded Information

Snake Bean (Snake Melon) medicinal value:

Medicinal name: Snake Melon

Source: for the dicotyledonous plant medicinal cucurbit plant Snake Melon's fruits, roots, seeds.

Effects: Clearing away heat, generating fluids, clearing dampness and heat, and killing worms.

Terapeutic Indications: treating fever with heat evils that injure the body fluid, dry mouth and tongue, irritable thirst, excessive drinking, excessive urination, thirst, jaundice.

Nature and flavor: sweet, bitter, cold. Lung, stomach, liver, large intestine meridians.

Use and dosage: Internal use: decoction of 3 to 9 grams.

Alias: snake beans, bean cucumber

Animal and Plant Resources Distribution: distributed in southern Yunnan, Guangdong, Hainan Island, wild, north and south are cultivated.

Chemical composition of traditional Chinese medicine: fruit containing glycoprotein. Flowers contain glutamic acid, aspartic acid, arginine, asparagine, lysine, alanine and so on. Seed in the oil containing 29.1%, oil containing garnet acid 42.8%.

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