Luffa has high nutritional value. Luffa contains protein, fat, carbohydrate, crude fiber, calcium, phosphorus, iron, citrulline, riboflavin and other B vitamins and vitamin C, and also contains saponins contained in ginseng.

Luffa is sweet in taste and flat in nature, and has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer-heat, cooling blood and detoxicating, moistening intestines and relaxing bowels, expelling wind and resolving phlegm, moistening skin and caring skin, dredging meridians and activating collaterals, and promoting blood circulation and milk ejection. Its collaterals, seeds, vines, flowers and leaves can all be used as medicine.

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The efficacy of loofah:

1, moisturizing and whitening

Protecting skin, eliminating plaque and preventing skin aging are rare beauty products for delicate skin. The juice of loofah vine and stem has a special function of keeping skin elastic. It can beautify and wrinkle, so loofah is called beauty water.

2. Brain health

It is beneficial to the brain development of children and the brain health of middle-aged and elderly people. Luffa extract has obvious preventive effect on Japanese encephalitis virus.

3. Promoting blood circulation and dredging collaterals

It has the functions of relieving cough, resolving phlegm, cooling blood and detoxicating. External use can stop bleeding and diminish inflammation, and women eat more to help regulate menstruation.

4, detoxification and detumescence

Luffa vine tastes bitter and cool, and has the functions of relaxing muscles and activating collaterals, relieving cough and resolving phlegm. Luffa is sweet and flat, and has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, diuresis and detumescence.

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