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.
Sweet in nature and cool in nature.
Ingredients This product contains protein, fat, carbohydrate, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B 1, vitamin C, saponin, plant mucus, xylose gum, etc.
Efficacy of clearing heat and resolving phlegm, cooling blood and detoxifying. Used for cough, asthma, whooping cough, parotitis and pharyngolaryngitis. Bleeding after defecation, etc.
250 grams of fresh loofah and 200 grams of lean pork are cut into pieces, and appropriate amount of water is added to cook soup. After cooking, salt is used to season and accompany the meal.
60 ml (3-6 years old) of fresh luffa juice with pertussis, plus appropriate amount of honey, taken orally twice a day.
Prevention of Measles Raw Luffa100g decoction is taken twice a day for 3 days.
Pharyngolaryngitis is chopped by cream towel gourd 1 strip and decocted in water. Or tender loofah, with a dose of 1 tablespoon, three times a day.
Mumps old towel gourd 1 strip, chopped and fried until slightly yellow, and ground into fine powder. Each time10g, take it with boiling water, 3 times a day, and take it for 5 days.
Milk less than 30 grams of loofah seed, boiled silver carp food.
2 small loofah for asthma, cut off, boil in casserole, and take thick juice 150 ml, three times a day.
Two old loofahs with lung carbuncle, hernia pain and postpartum abdominal pain were peeled, baked on a tile and ground into powder, and mixed with rice wine, once10g, three times a day.
It is advisable to avoid spleen and stomach deficiency and diarrhea.
The family belongs to the fresh and tender fruit of Cucurbitaceae plant Luffa.
Alias Luffa, Tianluo, Miangua, Bugua, Tianluo Gua.
The sexual taste is cold and sweet; Human lung and liver meridians.
Efficacy is mainly used for clearing heat and resolving phlegm, cooling blood and detoxicating, relieving summer heat and relieving restlessness, dredging channels and activating collaterals. Indications are fever, thirst, phlegm, asthma, cough, intestinal wind, hemorrhoids and leakage, sores and swelling, and women's galactorrhea.
The nutrients per100g contain 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 39-45.
0.06 mg, 0.3-0.5 mg of nicotinic acid. Ascorbic acid 5-8 mg. In addition, it also contains saponins, bitter gourd, a lot of mucus, citrulline and so on.
Dietetic therapy
1.Anti-scurvy Luffa has a high content of vitamin C, which is 8 mg per 100 grams. It can be used to fight scurvy and prevent various vitamin C deficiency.
2. Brain-strengthening beauty Because the content of vitamin B 1 in loofah is also high, it is beneficial to the brain development of children and the brain health of middle-aged and elderly people; The juice of the stem of Luffa has the special function of keeping skin elastic and can beautify and wrinkle.
3. Antiviral and antiallergic Luffa extract (Lo43) has obvious preventive effect on Japanese encephalitis virus, and the protection rate can reach 60% ~ 80% when injected with Lo43 before being infected with the virus. A kind of anti-allergic substance, Xiegen Alkyd, was also extracted from tissue culture solution of Luffa, which has a strong anti-allergic effect.
Health diet
1.Burn 800g of loofah, 50g of water-soaked mushrooms, and appropriate amount of ginger juice. First, wash the water-soaked mushrooms, peel the loofah, wash and slice; Heat the pot, add raw oil, cook with ginger juice, add towel gourd slices, mushrooms, cooking wine, refined salt and monosodium glutamate, boil until mushrooms and towel gourd taste, thicken with wet starch, pour sesame oil and mix well. This dish has the effects of invigorating qi and blood and dredging meridians. It is suitable for women with postpartum galactorrhea and breast pain.
2. Tomato loofah soup loofah 1 root, 2 tomatoes, and appropriate amount of chopped green onion. Firstly, cleaning tomatoes, slicing, peeling, cleaning and slicing loofah; Boil the cooked lard to 60% heat, add 5 ooml of fresh soup to boil, put the loofah slices and tomato slices, and when cooked, add pepper, salt, monosodium glutamate and chopped green onion and mix well. This soup is delicious, fresh and fragrant, and has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic substances and eliminating restlessness. Heat and boredom, thirst and dry throat are effective.
3. Stir-fried loofah, loofah 25O grams. Peel, clean and slice the loofah, put a little oil on the pot, heat it to 60%, stir-fry the loofah, and add a little salt when the loofah is cooked. This dish is light and delicious, and has the functions of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. It is especially suitable for patients with phlegm, asthma, cough, dysentery and jaundice.
4. Raw loofah juice Raw loofah 1000 g, and proper amount of honey. First, wash the raw loofah, shred and squeeze the juice, add honey (generally10:1ratio), and stir well. This juice has the effects of clearing away heat, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, and is suitable for children with pertussis.
Precautions Luffa is cold and slippery, and eating too much is easy to cause diarrhea; Do not eat it raw.
Selected documents
Compendium of Materia Medica: "Cooked food can remove heat and benefit intestines".
"Luchuan Materia Medica": "Promoting fluid production to quench thirst, relieving summer heat and relieving annoyance".
Herb Collection Book: "Treat women's leucorrhea, blood swelling and accumulation, and all bones and muscles ache."
Cultural appreciation
Song Luyou. "Luffa": "Luffa washes the inkstone, and the remaining stains are exhausted without damaging the inkstone."
Anonymous: "After a few days of rain, the grass grows in autumn, and the loofah extends the tile wall."
Anonymous: "The yellow flower faded to green, and the white knot silk surrounded Xiaoshuang. It was so thin that it became a thought, and it just touched people's faces."