The dietotherapy effect of leek The root of leek is pungent and warm. Entering the liver, stomach and kidney meridians. Has the effects of warming middle warmer, stimulating appetite, promoting qi circulation, promoting blood circulation, tonifying kidney, strengthening yang, and removing blood stasis. Leek leaves are sweet, pungent and salty, warm in nature, and enter the liver, stomach and kidney meridians. Warming the middle warmer, invigorating qi, removing blood stasis and detoxicating. Leek seeds are pungent, salty and warm, and enter the liver and kidney meridians. Tonifying liver and kidney, warming waist and knees, strengthening yang and solidifying essence. All leeks can tonify kidney and stomach, invigorate lung and qi, dissipate blood stasis and stagnate, calm the five internal organs, promote qi and blood circulation, stop sweating and astringe, and dry hiccups. Indications: impotence, premature ejaculation, nocturnal emission, polyuria, abdominal pain, insufficient stomach heat, diarrhea, turbid urine, amenorrhea, leucorrhea, lumbago and leg pain, and postpartum hemorrhage. The nutrition of loofah loofah contains B vitamins to prevent skin aging and vitamin C to whiten skin, which can protect skin, eliminate plaque and make skin white and tender. It is a rare beauty product, so Luffa juice is called "beauty water". It is also helpful for women to eat more loofah to regulate irregular menstruation. 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-nourishing 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 maintaining skin elasticity, which 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. Luffa also has a good medicinal effect. Luffa contains saponins, citrulline and other ingredients. Cold in nature, sweet in taste, and has the function of clearing heat. It is good to eat loofah in hot summer. "Herbal Medicine in Southern Yunnan" states that "Luffa flower can clear lung heat, reduce phlegm and qi, relieve cough, stop throat and throat diseases, relieve polydipsia and purge fire". Put the towel gourd flower in a porcelain cup, brew it with boiling water, cover it for a few minutes, and then add honey. The towel gourd flower in the water is still light yellow, and you can cure cough by drinking it several times a day. When melons get old, they become tendons, that is, loofah used in traditional Chinese medicine, which can relax tendons and activate collaterals. Luffa seeds can resolve phlegm, and there is leaf liquid in Luffa rattan, which also has the effect of clearing heat. You can eat more loofah if you have more prickly heat in summer.