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Medicinal value of loofah
Loofah is not included in this book, and the compendium of materia medica is unheard of before Tang and Song Dynasties, so it can be used for reference for its medicinal purposes:

Smell: Sweet, flat and nontoxic.

Indications:

1, acne is not fast. Use an old loofah three inches close to the pedicle, burn the skin, grind it into powder, and take it with sugar water.

2, the carbuncle is not gathered, and the sore is deep. There are loofah mashed juice frequently applied.

3, wind-heat rib swelling. Burn it with loofah, grind it into powder, and apply it with water.

4, bench sores. Bake with melon skin, grind into powder, mix with distilled spirit and apply.

5, hand and foot frostbite. Burn with old loofah, adjust wax and lard.

6, hemorrhoids and rectocele. Burn the towel gourd, lime for many years and realgar for 50 yuan each, grind it into powder, and apply it with pig bile, egg white and sesame oil until it is removed from the intestine.

7, blood under the intestinal wind. Burn the dried loofah with frost, grind it into powder, take two money in the hollow, and send the wine.

8. Blood collapse. Burn the old loofah and palm ash equally, and serve with salt wine or salt soup.

9, the milk is unreasonable. Use loofah lotus seeds to burn, grind them into powder, give one or two dollars for wine, and cover them with sweat.

10, intestinal gas pain, rushing around the navel. Burn the old loofah with its pedicle and grind it into powder. Every time you take San Qian, the hot wine is adjusted. If the patient is seriously ill, it will disappear after taking it two or three times.

1 1, egg swelling and falling. Burn with old loofah, grind into powder, refine honey and make paste. Take a spoonful of good wine every night.

12, low back pain. Stir-fried with loofah seeds, mashed and served with wine. Apply slag to the pain.

13, sore throat. Poured with loofah pulp.

14, phlegm and cough. Burn with loofah, grind into powder, and add dates to make balls, such as marbles. Take one pill each time and send it with warm wine.

15, toothache. Use a raw towel gourd, rub it with salt to keep it alive, grind it into the end, wipe your teeth frequently, and the saliva will heal. If the rib is swollen, it can be applied with water at the end. This prescription is ineffective in treating tooth decay.

16, knife sore. Divide ancient lime, new lime, towel gourd root leaves and leek roots into equal parts, pound them to pieces, make them into cakes, dry them in the shade, grind them into powder and apply them. Stop bleeding, stop pain, promote granulation, and have special effects.

17, chronic ulcers. Wash and rub with the old roots of loofah.