Luffa, also known as Luo Tian tendon and Luffa, is cool and sweet, and has the effects of dredging meridians, clearing heat and resolving phlegm. Used for joint pain, testicular swelling and pain, lung heat cough, chest pain, breast obstruction and other symptoms.

Luffa sponge is clinically used to treat joint pain and contracture numbness, and is often used together with Mulberry Branch, Lonicera japonica Thunb, Coicis Semen and Lumbricus. For patients with qi stagnation and pain, it can be combined with Fructus Aurantii, Orange Collateral, Radix Platycodi and Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae Viride. For chest pain, it can be used with Radix Paeoniae Rubra, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Rhizoma Corydalis and Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae Viride. Chest obstruction and heartache can be combined with Orange Collateral, Salvia Miltiorrhiza and Bulbus Allii Macrostemon. To treat mastitis, the loofah sponge can be burned and ground, boiled with vinegar and taken with brown sugar water.

Modern pharmacological studies have confirmed that oleanolic acid contained in loofah has therapeutic effect on acute liver injury, and oleanolic acid folic acid has diuretic effect and inhibits the growth of tumor strains.

Tianluoshui

Luo Tianshui, also known as loofah water, comes from Compendium of Materia Medica. This kind of "water" has the effects of eliminating phlegm and reducing fire, detoxicating and clearing heat, and can be used to treat lung abscess, lung flaccidity, moth and so on. Boiling sugar and taking it orally can cure cough, headache, abdominal pain and beriberi.

Modern pharmacological research found that Luo Tian water contains sugars, plant mucus, vitamins and minerals, and a large number of natural moisturizing factors, which can maintain the normal moisture content of the stratum corneum, inhibit the production of melanocytes, and keep the skin tender and delicate.

Luo Tianshui can also regulate facial sebum secretion, which has refreshing, astringent, calming and balancing effects on facial skin. Commonly used as facial mask, sunscreen loofah milk, Luo Tian lemon whitening milk, wrinkle-removing Luo Tian liquid, etc. , so it is called "beauty water".