Luffa has high nutritional value. Luffa contains protein, fat, carbohydrate, crude fiber, calcium, phosphorus, iron, citrulline, riboflavin and other B vitamins and vitamin C, and also contains saponins contained in ginseng.

Luffa is sweet in taste and flat in nature, and has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer-heat, cooling blood and detoxicating, moistening intestines and relaxing bowels, expelling wind and resolving phlegm, moistening skin and caring skin, dredging meridians and activating collaterals, and promoting blood circulation and milk ejection. Its collaterals, seeds, vines, flowers and leaves can all be used as medicine.

It is good for women to eat more loofah, which contains B vitamins to prevent skin aging and vitamin C to whiten skin. It can protect skin, eliminate plaque and make skin white and tender, which is a rare beauty product. So towel gourd juice is called "beauty water".

Long-term consumption or wiping the face with loofah liquid can also make people's skin smooth and delicate. In addition, loofah also has the effects of clearing away heat, cooling blood, detoxifying and relaxing bowels, and regulating irregular menstruation. Women with irregular menstruation, physical fatigue and weak constitution should eat more.