Can loofah skin be eaten?
The skins of many melon vegetables are edible, such as bitter gourd and cabbage melon, which need not be peeled, and the skins of loofah are also edible, but generally we peel off the skins of loofah before cooking. Now that we know that the skins of loofah can be eaten, don't waste them! The skin of towel gourd is also rich in nutrition, which not only contains the same nutrients as the pulp of towel gourd, but also contains riboflavin and saponins in ginseng.
Efficacy
Luffa skin, like Luffa, is rich in nutrients and has high medicinal value. The skin of towel gourd contains saponins, bitter substance of towel gourd, plant mucus, xylan, citrulline and interferon, which have many special functions. Luffa skin has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, inducing diuresis and cooling blood, and can be used to treat abscess and carbuncle, etc. Luffa skin is an indispensable dish for clearing heat and relieving summer heat in summer.
Medicinal value
Drug name: towel gourd skin
Spelling: SIGUAPI
Source: The pericarp of a dicotyledonous medicinal cucurbitaceae plant Luffa or Luffa Guangdong.
Efficacy: diuresis and wetting.
Main treatment: treating golden sore, furuncle and bench sore.
Tropism of nature and taste: sweet and cool. Entering the heart and spleen.
Usage and dosage: external use: baking, grinding and dressing.
Collection and storage of medicinal materials: in summer and autumn, when eating loofah, collect the peeled peel and dry it in the sun.
Latin name: Luffa cylindrica(L.) Roem. Luffa Guangdong L. Acutangula Roxb.
Textual research: from "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica". ?