The role of old loofah flesh boiled water to drink:

1. pass the meridian and activate the collaterals

Loofah is long cylindrical or long shuttle shape, the whole system by the multi-layer filamentous fibers intertwined into a segment of the mesh body, similar to the human body's veins, so this product has a pass the meridian and activate the role of the collaterals. For various causes of stagnation of blood and qi, the veins and channels of the chest and hypochondrium pain, abdominal pain, lumbago, testicular pain, amenorrhea, lactation, etc., with this product through the meridians, qi and blood, through the pain, through the meridians, the pain of self-cure, qi and blood smooth, then come back to the menstruation, lactation, so for the good of menstruation and activation of the best products.

2. Clearing heat and phlegm

Silk gourd Luo taste sweet and cold, sweet and cold texture moist, cold can clear heat, into the lung meridian, so it can clear the lung heat, moistening the lung phlegm, used for the lung meridian has heat, purging and lowering failure to cough, asthma, coughing phlegm and other diseases, this product can clear the lung heat, moistening the lung phlegm, both symptoms and root cause and cure.

3. Cooling blood and stopping bleeding

Silk gourd Luo is cold and clearing heat, charcoal storage, into the blood, can cool the blood, and its charcoal can stop bleeding, so it can cool the blood and stop bleeding, for the blood in the stool, bleeding, leakage, and other blood with the effective, and to the blood-heat patients with the best, both cool the blood, but also to stop bleeding.

4. Rheumatic paralysis

Silk gourd is good at dispelling wind and collaterals, but the power of the drug is calm, more into the compound formula application. The treatment of rheumatic paralysis, contracture of muscles and veins, paralysis of the limbs, often with Macrophyllum, Fangfeng, Angelica sinensis, Chicken Blood Vine and so on.

5. Chest and hypochondriac pain

Silk gourd Luo can enter the liver to promote blood circulation, commonly used in the chest and hypochondriac pain of qi and blood stagnation, more with Chaihu, Xiangshu, Psoralea vulgaris, yujin and so on.

6. Breast milk, breast carbuncle

Silk gourd Luo body light fluent, good through the breast, the treatment of postpartum milk or breast milk, often with the Wang Buliuxing, Lutong, andrographis paniculata, pig's hooves and so on with the treatment of carbuncle pain, each with dandelion, zhehebeimu, gua vulgaris, Qingpi, and so on with the pairing.

Expanded Information:

Silkmelon is ripe, dried in the sun to remove the outer layer of the skin, the inner part of the filamentous material The loofah is the flesh of the loofah.

1. Role of loofah flesh

(1) Cleaning of food and drink utensils

Luffa flesh is usually used as a cooking utensil in farms, such as washing dishes and brushing pots and pans. Characterized by non-stick oil, clean.

(2) cleaning face

Luffa flesh after boiling water, can be used to wash the face, oil control, clean thoroughly, face long acne available loofah flesh for cleaning, fresh better. It can also be used for body cleansing.

2. Medicinal value

(1) Overview

Luffa flesh, also known as loofah net, loofah shells, melon, flocculent melon flesh, Tianluo line, loofah tendon, loofah complex, thousands of layers of the floor for the Cucurbitaceae annual herbaceous plant loofah in the ripe fruit of the vascular bundles, or loofah withered old fruit.

Luffa is China's summer and fall season commonly used vegetables, most of the country's provinces and districts have production, for the cultivated products, to Jiangsu, Zhejiang produced by the quality of good. Loofah contains xylan, mannan, galactan, etc., decoction has obvious analgesic, sedative and anti-inflammatory effect, clinical research shows that loofah internal and external treatment of acute mastitis, ocular herpes zoster, thyroid adenoma and so on have a certain efficacy.

(2) Traditional Chinese medicine theory

The theory of traditional Chinese medicine that the taste of sweetness and flatness, into the lung, stomach, liver meridian, for medical use, therapeutic food, with the activation of the meridians and channels, clearing heat and phlegm efficacy, the "Materia Medica Again" records: "through the meridians and channels, and the blood, phlegm, and smooth the qi".

It can be used for: 1) rheumatic paralysis. This product is good at dispelling wind and clearing the channels, but the strength of the drug is calm, and it is mostly used in compound formulas. The treatment of rheumatic paralysis, contracture of the tendons, paralysis of the limbs, often with Macrophyllum, Fangfeng, Angelica sinensis, chicken blood vine and so on. ② chest and hypochondriac pain. This product can enter the liver to activate blood circulation, commonly used in the stagnation of qi and blood in the chest and hypochondrium, more with Chai Hu, Xiang Fu, Gua Pou Pi, yujin and so on. (3) Lactation, breast carbuncle. This product is light and fluent, good through the breast, the treatment of postpartum milk or breast milk, often with Wang Buliuxing, Lutong, andrographis paniculata, pig's hooves, etc.; the treatment of carbuncle pain, each with dandelion, zhebeimu, Psoralea vulgaris, Qingpi, and other compositions. In addition, this product can also be used to treat bruises and chest paralysis.