Bitter melon is also called "cool melon", its flavor bitter cold, to the heart, so the hot season should eat more bitter melon. Bitter melon not only has a clear mind, cool and quench thirst, diarrhea six meridians of the real fire, there is also beneficial to the gas and fluids, to relieve fatigue; in addition, bitter melon in addition to the heart meridian, but also into the lung meridian and gastric meridian, it also has a diarrhea of the lungs and bowels, spleen and stomach, detoxification carbuncle and other efficacies. But although the advantages of the bitter melon, but not suitable for all people.
People with a cold spleen and stomach should not eat more and eat raw bitter melon. Bitter melon is a cold product, usually loose stools, urine long, poor fear of cold, white face, tongue pale pulse sinking most of the deficiency of yang qi deficiency or body spleen and stomach cold, this kind of people should not eat bitter melon, or easy to gastric discomfort, abdominal distension, abdominal pain, and even vomiting, diarrhea and other symptoms.
In addition, the bitter melon cold, long-term consumption of women is not favorable.