Nutritional value of towel gourd;
1, Luffa is mild, contains interferon inducer, can stimulate human body to produce interferon, and has antiviral, anticancer, diuretic and heat-clearing effects. Therefore, it can be used to treat edema.
2, loofah is sweet, cool, and enters the liver and stomach. Has the effects of clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, cooling blood, removing toxic substances, relieving summer heat, relieving restlessness, dredging collaterals and expelling wind. Can be used for treating fever, polydipsia, excessive phlegm, asthma, cough, intestinal wind, hemorrhoid, metrorrhagia, leukorrhagia, bloody stranguria, carbuncle and galactorrhea.
3. Luffa fruit is sweet, cold and non-toxic. Entering the liver and stomach meridian can treat body heat, polydipsia, excessive phlegm, asthma, cough, intestinal wind, hemorrhoids, bleeding, ulcers, breast obstruction, carbuncle and other diseases.
Extended data:
The efficacy of loofah:
1, anti-scurvy: Luffa has a high content of vitamin C, which can be used to fight scurvy and prevent various vitamin C deficiencies.
2, brain beauty: because of the high content of vitamin B in loofah, it is beneficial to the brain development of children and the brain health of middle-aged and elderly people; The juice of towel gourd stem has the special function of keeping skin elastic, and can beautify and wrinkle.
3. Anti-virus and anti-allergy: The extract of Luffa has obvious preventive effect on Japanese encephalitis virus, and an anti-allergic substance-Xiegen alkyd is also extracted from tissue culture solution of Luffa, which has strong anti-allergic effect.
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