Luffa is sweet and cool, enters the liver and stomach meridians, and has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer-heat, cooling blood and detoxicating, moistening intestines and relaxing bowels, expelling wind and resolving phlegm, moistening skin and caring skin, dredging meridians and activating collaterals, and promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Can be used for treating fever, polydipsia, expectoration, intestinal wind hemorrhoid, metrorrhagia, leukorrhagia, bloody stranguria, sores and carbuncle, and women. There is not enough milk.
Luffa also has the effects of clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, cooling blood to stop bleeding, beautifying and resisting cancer, and can be used to treat muscle pain, hematochezia and other diseases. Luffa is rich in B vitamins and has the function of strengthening the brain. It also contains saponin, which has a certain cardiotonic effect.
Function of loofah
1, ascorbic acid
The content of vitamin C in towel gourd is high, with 8 mg per 100 g, which can be used to fight scurvy and prevent various vitamin C deficiency.
2. Brain and heart
Luffa is rich in B vitamins and has the function of strengthening the brain. It also contains saponin, which has a certain cardiotonic effect.
3, beautify the skin
Luffa juice has a special function of maintaining skin elasticity and can be used for beauty and wrinkle removal;
4, anti-virus, anti-allergic
Luffa extract has obvious preventive effect on Japanese encephalitis virus. Uric acid, an antiallergic substance, was also extracted from tissue culture solution of Luffa, which has a strong antiallergic effect.
5, promoting blood circulation and dredging collaterals
It has the functions of relieving cough, resolving phlegm, cooling blood and detoxicating. External use can stop bleeding and diminish inflammation, and women eat more to help regulate menstruation.
6, clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving cough and resolving phlegm
Luffa vine tastes bitter and cool, and has the effects of dredging tendons, relieving cough and resolving phlegm. Luffa is sweet and has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, diuresis and detumescence.
Modern research shows that loofah contains a saponin that can inhibit Streptococcus pneumoniae, which is consistent with the traditional Chinese medicine that loofah has the function of clearing away heat and toxic materials. Therefore, when suffering from infectious diseases, eating dishes cooked with loofah can play an auxiliary treatment role. Used for upper respiratory tract infection and common cold, with more obvious antitussive and expectorant effects.
The dietotherapy function of loofah;
Luffa+soybean: regulate constipation, strengthen bones and muscles, and increase milk.
The combination of towel gourd and soybean can increase nutrition, increase the contents of protein, calcium, iron, carrot, vegetarian food, vitamin C and other nutrients, thus enhancing the body's resistance and maintaining the normal function of blood vessels. Muscle. It can relieve constipation, halitosis, muscle pain and promote milk secretion.
Luffa+Shrimp: Relieve cough, fatigue and waist and knee pain.
Luffa, if eaten with shrimp, is good for human health. It can not only clear milk and detoxify, but also replenish lung and kidney. Try to eat these two ingredients at the same time in your daily life.
Luffa+egg: nourishing yin and moistening dryness, nourishing blood milk
When eaten with nutritious eggs, loofah can not only clear away heat and cool blood, moisten skin and beautify face, but also clear away heat and toxic materials, nourish yin and moisten dryness, and has nourishing auxiliary therapeutic effect. Blood and milk are suitable for relieving fever, sore throat, envy, thirst, fever and other symptoms.
Luffa+trotters+mushrooms: nourishing blood, regulating milk, moistening skin and caring skin.
Luffa combined with pig's trotters and mushrooms can nourish blood and give birth to milk, but also moisturize and beautify the face, which is especially suitable for patients with postpartum anemia, insufficient milk and low immunity.
Luffa+Chrysanthemum: Enhance immunity and beautify skin.
The combination of loofah and chrysanthemum can not only dispel wind and eliminate phlegm, clear away heat and toxic materials, cool blood and stop bleeding, but also enhance human resistance. In addition, when they are eaten together, the skin beautifying effect is extremely remarkable.
Luffa+duck meat: clearing away heat and fire, regulating the stomach.
Duck meat can not only supplement the water needed by human body, but also nourish yin, clear away heat and relieve cough. Eating with loofah can clear away heat and reduce fire and nourish the stomach.
Luffa+pork: good for health
Luffa has high medicinal value; Pork is rich in various nutrients needed by human body, and has the effects of moistening stomach, promoting fluid production, tonifying kidney and detoxifying. Might as well eat more
Luffa+fish: cardiotonic, anticancer and antiviral.
Luffa is rich in nutrition, and its interferon inducer can stimulate human body to produce interferon, thus achieving the purpose of antivirus and anticancer. In addition, the saponins contained in it have a cardiotonic effect. The benefits of eating with fish are more beneficial to the human body.
The practice of loofah:
Luffa can be cooked alone or together with other foods, such as stir-frying, stir-frying, mixing, boiling and stewing.
Luffa egg flower soup
Ingredients: 3 eggs, 1 loofah, chicken powder, salt and sesame oil.
Production steps:
(1) Wash the loofah and cut it into thick slices.
(2) Heat the pan, add proper amount of oil and a little salt, stir-fry the loofah for a while, and add water to boil.
(3) After the water boils, take the eggs and beat them into the soup, then roll them again.
Efficacy: Fresh loofah can clear away heat and cool blood, which is beneficial to intestines. It can be used for blood-heat hematochezia, hemorrhoid bleeding or large intestine dryness, and stool is unfavorable.