Bitter melon + sugar is a good cold dish to clear summer heat, moisturize the lungs, and produce fluids in summer.

Bitter melon has the effect of clearing heat and eliminating summer heat, nourishing blood and vital energy, tonifying the kidney and spleen, nourishing the liver and brightening the eyes, and is effective in treating dysentery, sores and swellings, heatstroke fever, excessive prickly heat, conjunctivitis and other diseases.

Bitter melon has the role of preventing scurvy, protecting cell membranes, preventing atherosclerosis, improving the body's stress capacity, and protecting the heart.

The active ingredients in bitter melon can inhibit the cancer of normal cells and promote the recovery of mutated cells, which has a certain anticancer effect.

It has medicinal and health care functions such as lowering blood sugar, lowering blood lipids, anti-tumor, preventing osteoporosis, regulating endocrine, antioxidant, anti-bacterial as well as improving human immunity.

Bitter melon can moisturize the white skin, but also calm and moisturize the skin, especially in the summer which is easy to be hot, apply the ice over the bitter melon slices, which can immediately lift the irritation of the skin.

White granulated sugar is sweet in flavor and flat in nature, and belongs to the spleen and lung meridian. It can moisturize the lungs and promote the production of fluids, relieve coughs, harmonize the middle and benefit the lungs, soothe the liver, nourish the yin, flavor, remove bad breath, heal sores and remove the poison of alcohol, and relieve the effects of salt brine poisoning.

Appropriate consumption of sugar can improve the body's absorption of calcium, provide energy, maintain the normal function of the heart and nervous system, liver detoxification. Modern medical research has found that sugar can also change the speed of wound healing, can promote the growth of tissue cells.