1, nourishing blood and nourishing liver bitter gourd tastes bitter, cold when it is born, and warm when it is cooked. Raw food clears summer heat and purges fire, and relieves fever and annoyance; Cooked food nourishes the blood and nourishes the liver, moistens the spleen and tonifies the kidney, and can eliminate pathogenic heat, relieve fatigue, clear the heart and improve eyesight, invigorate qi and strengthen yang. But eating bitter gourd should also be careful not to damage the spleen and lungs. Although the weather is hot in summer, people should not eat too much bitter food, and it is best to mix it with spicy food (such as pepper, pepper, onion and garlic), so as to avoid bitter taste and help to replenish lung qi.
2, clearing away heat and detoxifying bitter gourd is a cold food, which can vent the annoyance in the heart and eliminate toxins in the body. After eating bitter gourd, it can cool and dispel fire, and has a good auxiliary treatment effect on mouth sores, dry throat, sore throat and furuncle caused by the upwelling of toxic fire. The best way to eat bitter gourd is cold salad. Cold salad can well retain the vitamins contained in bitter gourd. If the method of stir-frying is used, these vitamins will be lost in the process of stir-frying, and the content of oil after stir-frying is relatively high, so people will consume more oil after eating, which can not play a role in cooling down the fire.
3, hypoglycemic mussel bitter melon soup is the top grade of hypoglycemic. The crude extract of Momordica charantia contains substances similar to insulin, which has obvious hypoglycemic effect. Chinese medicine believes that bitter gourd is sweet, bitter and cold, which can clear away heat, relieve annoyance and quench thirst; The clam meat is salty and cold, which can clear away heat and nourish yin, quench thirst and induce diuresis. The combination of the two can clear away heat and nourish yin, which is suitable for diabetes patients with stomach yin deficiency and heat.
4, beauty and rejuvenation Eating bitter gourd can enhance the vitality of the cortex and make the skin tender and bodybuilding. Pouring fresh bitter gourd juice or decocting soup is a good supplementary food therapy for liver fire, epigastric pain and damp-heat dysentery; Bitter gourd contains a lot of cellulose, which can promote intestinal peristalsis and stool discharge. Fresh bitter gourd is mashed and applied externally to treat carbuncle and furuncle. Children are prone to prickly heat in summer. Slice bitter gourd and try to wipe the prickly heat on the body, which can be cured as soon as possible. Bitter gourd can dissipate heat and relieve summer heat by boiling water or cooking food.