Luffa is cool and sweet. After eating, it has the effects of clearing heat and cooling blood, resolving phlegm and detoxifying. Suitable for people who are hot and thirsty during fever and dry and thirsty in hot summer.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that loofah is sweet in taste and cool in nature. It enters the lung and liver meridians, and has the effects of clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, relieving summer heat and relieving annoyance, dredging meridians and promoting diuresis.

Luffa can be eaten by the general population. Women with irregular menstruation, physical weakness, excessive phlegm and cough, and postpartum milk obstruction are suitable to eat more loofah. People with physical weakness, internal cold and diarrhea should not eat more.

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Nutritional value of towel gourd;

1, Luffa contains protein, fat, carbohydrate, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, iron, magnesium, sodium, vitamin B 1, vitamin C, carotene, vitamin A, folic acid, dietary fiber, and nutritional elements such as saponin, plant mucus, xylose gum, bitter substance of Luffa and citrulline.

2. Luffa soup contains high potassium and has a slight antihypertensive effect.

3. The content of vitamin C in loofah is high, which can not only whiten skin and eliminate stains, but also be used to fight scurvy.

4. Vitamin B in loofah can effectively prevent skin aging.

5, loofah contains dietary fiber, which can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and have a laxative effect.

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