Alias: Brocade Litchi, Bitter Melon, Cool Melon and Bitter Grape.

2020-03- 12 10: 15:49

Dr. Fang, chief physician

Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University

brief introduction

Bitter bitter melon is cold, so southerners like it. It can be drunk with fresh bitter gourd juice, or decocted in soup, with stronger heat-clearing effect, and can also be used as an auxiliary food for people with accumulated heat, containing bitter gourd glycoside. The contents of β -sitosterol glucoside, iron and vitamin C are quite high, and momordicoside has hypoglycemic effect.

Value information

Efficacy and function

Invigorating spleen and kidney, nourishing blood and benefiting qi, preventing and treating cancer, relieving summer heat and clearing heat.

nutritive value

1. Momordica charantia has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, nourishing blood and benefiting qi, invigorating kidney and spleen, nourishing liver and improving eyesight.

2. Bitter gourd has a high content of vitamin C, which can prevent scurvy, protect cell membrane, prevent atherosclerosis, improve the body's stress ability and protect the heart.

3. The protein component of Momordica charantia and a large amount of vitamin C can improve the immune function of the body, and make immune cells have the function of killing cancer cells.

4. Bitter gourd is known as "fat killer", which can reduce the intake of fat and polysaccharide.

5. Momordica charantia contains momordica charantia saponin, which has medicinal and health-care functions such as lowering blood sugar, lowering blood fat, resisting tumor, preventing osteoporosis, regulating endocrine, resisting oxidation, resisting bacteria and improving human immunity.

6. Bitter gourd can moisturize white skin, calm and moisturize skin, especially in hot summer, applying iced bitter gourd slices can immediately relieve skin irritability.

7. Bitter gourd juice contains certain protein components, which can enhance the ability of macrophages and is effective for lymphosarcoma and leukemia in clinic; Trypsin inhibitor extracted from bitter gourd seeds can inhibit the protease secreted by cancer cells and prevent the growth of malignant tumors.

8. Momordica charantia fresh juice contains momordicin and substances similar to insulin, which has a good hypoglycemic effect and is an ideal food for diabetic patients.

side effect

Bitter gourd cooked food is warm, raw food is cold, and people with spleen deficiency and stomach cold should not eat it raw. In addition, pregnant women should eat carefully, so some people should not eat more.

Similar composition

Suitability and taboo

appropriate

Most people can eat bitter gourd, which is suitable for diabetes and cancer patients.

be jealous of

Pregnant women and people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold should not eat more bitter gourd.

About eating

Can pregnant women eat?

Eat carefully. Bitter bitter gourd tastes bitter and cold, which can clear heat, clear stomach and reduce fire. It is better for children with hiccups and constipation. Children over 3 years old can eat in moderation.

Angry?

Eating bitter gourd can reduce fire. Bitter gourd, also known as cold melon, tastes bitter and can clear away heat and fire. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that bitterness can clear away heat.

How to eat

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Characteristics of ingredients

Selection skill

1, first of all, choose the dense lines, so that the bitter taste of bitter gourd is strong, and the more bitter melons there are; And the wider the lines, the lighter the bitterness.

2. Secondly, the small pimples on bitter gourd are also the characteristics to judge the quality of melon.