Luffa has a strong root system. Stems are tendrils, with five edges, green, main tendrils and lateral tendrils growing luxuriantly. Stems have branched tendrils and are prone to adventitious roots. Leaves palmate or heart-shaped, velvety. Monogamous, with yellow corolla. The male flower is a raceme, the female flower is solitary, and the ovary is lower. After the first female flower occurs, most stems save energy and produce female flowers. Fruit. The fruit of common loofah is short cylindrical or rod-shaped, with a length of 20 ~100 cm or more, a transverse diameter of 3 ~10 cm, no edges, rough surface and several dark green longitudinal grooves. The fruit of the ribbed towel gourd is rod-shaped, with a length of 25-60 cm and a transverse diameter of 5-7 cm. The skin is green and wrinkled, with 7 edges, green or dark green. The seeds are oval, and the common loofah seed coat is thin and smooth, with winged edges, black, white or grayish white; The seed coat of the angular towel gourd is thick and wrinkled, and it is black. 1000-grain weight100 ~180g. Luffa is the fresh and tender fruit of Cucurbitaceae herbs Luffa and Luffa Guangdong. Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan and other places are cultivated. Pick in summer and autumn, scrape off the rough skin, wash and use.
The family belongs to the fresh and tender fruit of Cucurbitaceae plant Luffa.
Alias: Luffa, Tianluo, Miangua, Bugua, Tianluo Gua.
Sexual taste tropism: cool and sweet; Human lung and liver meridians.
Ingredients: This product contains protein, fat, carbohydrate, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B 1, vitamin C, saponin, plant mucus, xylose gum, etc.
Indications: clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, cooling blood and detoxicating, relieving summer heat and vexation, dredging channels and activating collaterals. Indications are fever, thirst, phlegm, asthma, cough, intestinal wind, hemorrhoids and leakage, sores and swelling, and women's galactorrhea.
Avoid: spleen and stomach deficiency and diarrhea should not be taken.
Nutritional components: every100g contains protein L.4-L.5g, fat 0.1g, carbohydrate 4.3-4.5g, crude fiber 0.3-0.5g, ash 0.5g, calcium18-28mg and phosphorus 39-28mg. Ascorbic acid 5-8 mg. In addition, it also contains saponins, bitter gourd, a lot of mucus, citrulline and so on.
Luffa can be made into a variety of dishes for people to eat: such as loofah, loofah, roasted loofah with peach kernel, stewed tofu with loofah, loofah soup, roasted loofah with mushrooms and so on.
You can also make many loofah dishes at will.