Bitter gourd is a good medicine. Bitter gourd has roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds used as medicine. It is cold in nature and bitter in taste. Entering the spleen and stomach meridian, clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, improving eyesight and detoxifying. According to the "Resting Diet Spectrum", bitter gourd "has bitter taste, cold and heat, clear eyes and clear heart, nourish blood and soften liver when ripe, strengthen spleen and tonify kidney". "Life" records that bitter gourd can "clear away heat and relieve summer heat, eliminate fatigue, clear heart and improve eyesight, and invigorate qi and strengthen yang". "Compendium of Materia Medica" records bitter gourd's "clearing heart and improving eyesight, benefiting qi and reducing fever".

In addition, bitter gourd also has the effect of lowering blood sugar and preventing and treating cancer. Bitter gourd is a kind of bitter and cold product, which contains momordicoside, momordicoside and so on. According to modern pharmacological experiments, bitter gourd has the function of lowering blood sugar, which is thought to be because bitter gourd contains an insulin-like substance, which is stronger than the existing hypoglycemic drug "metsulfuron-methyl", so bitter gourd is an ideal health food for diabetic patients. Bitter gourd has broad prospects in the prevention and treatment of cancer. In foreign countries, scientists injected lipoproteins in bitter gourd into mice with lymphoma, and the survival time of mice was prolonged, indicating that lipoproteins in bitter gourd can improve cellular immune function. Therefore, scientists predict that bitter gourd may become a new drug to treat cancer.

Bitter gourd is rich in nutrition, and the ascorbic acid content in melons is outstanding, which is 14 times that of cucumber, 5 times that of wax gourd and 7 times that of tomato. According to the data of nutritional analysis, every100g of the edible part of bitter gourd contains 84g of water, 0.9g of protein, 0.2g of fat, 3.2g of carbohydrate, 0.6g of inorganic salt, 1. 1 g of crude fiber, 75.3kJ calorie and 0.08mg of vitamins A and B/kloc-. Momordica charantia fruit contains momordicoside, as well as glutamic acid, alanine, phenylalanine, proline and citrulline. The seeds and leaves of Momordica charantia contain a lot of momordicoside.