Bitter melon contains a substance called cucurbitacin, so it tastes bitter.

Bitter melon has a bitter taste, but is fragrant and delicious. Bitter melon has many functions, the most well-known of which is clearing away heat and detoxifying. In addition, it can also nourish the skin, lower blood sugar, nourish blood and nourish the liver.

1. Clear away heat and detoxify

Bitter melon can relieve heat in the heart and eliminate toxins from the body. The best way to eat bitter melon is cold salad. Cold cooking can well retain the vitamins contained in bitter melon. If stir-frying is used, a large amount of these vitamins will be lost during the stir-frying process, and the oil content after stir-frying is relatively high. People will consume more oil after eating, and it will not have the effect of cooling and reducing fire.

2. Skin care and rejuvenation

Eating bitter melon regularly can enhance the vitality of the cortex and make the skin tender and toned. Using fresh bitter melon to make juice or decoct it into soup is a good supplement for dietary therapy against liver fire, red eyes, epigastric pain, and damp-heat dysentery. Fresh bitter melon, mashed and applied externally, can treat carbuncles and boils. In summer, children are prone to prickly heat. Try cutting the bitter melon into slices. Rubbing the prickly heat on your body can help you recover quickly; boiling bitter melon in water or making it as a delicacy can dissipate heat and relieve heat.

The whole plant of bitter melon can be used as medicine. One bitter melon contains 0.4% of the special ingredient for weight loss that is as valuable as gold---high-energy clear lipoprotein, which mainly contains bitter melon glycosides and protein-like active substances (i.e. α-moor melon, β - Momordica charantin, MAP30) insulin-like active substances (i.e. polypeptide-P) and various amino acids. It has cooling effect on the heart, lungs and stomach, quenches thirst, removes pathogenic heat, cures red fire and toxic gas, purges excess fire in the six meridians, replenishes qi and quenches thirst, relieves fatigue, clears the heart and improves eyesight, can enhance appetite, nourishes blood and liver, and moisturizes the spleen. The effect of nourishing the kidneys.

Promote metabolism and other effects. Benefits the kidneys, diuresis, clears away heat and detoxifies, lowers blood lipids, and is antiviral. According to research, it has an obvious hidden blood sugar effect and has certain curative effects on diabetes. It also has certain antiviral and anti-cancer effects.

Extended information

Three important things to note when drinking bitter melon juice

1. Bitter melon can remove evil heat and relieve fatigue. While drinking bitter melon juice to lose weight, It is best not to drink tea or drink less tea, because drinking bitter melon juice with tea will irritate the gastrointestinal tract. Drink more boiled water.

2. The reliability of bitter melon juice for weight loss also depends on the bitter melon itself. Only fresh and green bitter melons can achieve the best weight loss effect. If you choose the wrong bitter melon juice, it will be ineffective.

3. The weight loss effect of bitter melon juice cannot be seen in one day, nor does it mean that you can overeat after drinking bitter melon juice. During this period, you should still eat regularly and exercise more to get twice the result with half the effort. .

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