Noodle gourd contains starch, protein, carotene, vitamin B, vitamin C and calcium, phosphorus and other ingredients. Its nutrition is rich, for rural people often eat squash, and is increasingly valued by urban people. Not only has a high food value. And has a non-negligible therapeutic role.

According to the "Diannan Materia Medica": the noodle melon is warm, sweet and non-toxic, into the spleen, stomach, the two meridians, can moisturize the lungs and benefit the qi, phlegm, thick, expel worms and detoxification, cough and stop wheezing, treatment of canker sores and constipation, and diuretics, cosmetic and other roles.

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Face gourd is native to southern Asia and is cultivated throughout the world. The fruit is used as a vegetable; the seeds contain oil and can be eaten, the seeds (noodles melon seeds) and melon seeds are often used in medicine, can expel worms, strengthen the spleen, under the breast.

Face melon is an annual trailing herb. Stems up to several meters long, rooting at the nodes, stout, furrowed, covered with short stiff hairs, tendrils divided into 3 to 4 forks. Single leaves alternate, leaf blade cordate or broadly ovate, 5 lobed with 5 angles, slightly soft, 15-30 cm long, both sides densely covered with velvet, along the edge and on the leaf surface is often white spots, the edge of the irregular serration.

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