Momordica charantia contains components for lowering blood pressure and blood sugar, and is rich in vitamin C. The content is about 65438±0.20mg, which is higher than that of strawberry (80mg) and lemon (90mg). In terms of minerals, bitter gourd contains potassium which can effectively lower blood pressure and carotene which can prevent cancer and improve eyesight. Studies also show that bitter gourd can lower blood sugar level because bitter gourd seeds contain protein similar to insulin. As we all know, insulin has the function of converting glucose in blood into heat, which can regulate blood sugar and keep it in a normal state. Similarly, the extract of bitter gourd fruit or seed can also promote sugar decomposition, convert excess sugar into heat, and improve the fat balance in the body. In addition, it can also eliminate obesity or constipation that leads to diabetes. Therefore, people with higher blood sugar value may wish to drink bitter gourd juice every day. Of course, because bitter gourd is a natural vegetable, you don't have to worry about side effects after eating it. Bitter ingredients to relieve summer heat Bitter gourd is bitter because it has a unique bitter ingredient-Cinchona cream, which can inhibit the overexcited body temperature center and play an antipyretic role. Bitter gourd is ripe, pink in color and not bitter in taste. It is a good product for calming liver, benefiting gallbladder and clearing blood heat. Anyone suffering from hepatitis and jaundice should eat it often and can also be used to treat hemorrhoids caused by intestinal heat. Bitter gourd can also treat many diseases such as stomach heat pain, damp-heat dysentery, vomiting and diarrhea. People all over the world can readily accept the bitter taste of bitter gourd because they understand the truth that "good medicine tastes bitter". Japanese studies have found that bitter foods contain higher amino acids, of which more than 20 kinds are bitter. Some bitter food is an important source of vitamin B 17, and vitamin B 17 is very lethal to cancer cells, so cancer patients can eat more bitter gourd. In Southeast Asia, bitter gourd leaves are used to boil juice to treat skin diseases, and seeds are effective for blood gas upwelling or fever. In addition, the bitter taste of bitter gourd can stimulate appetite. Therefore, people regard bitter gourd as a vegetable that can relieve summer heat, stimulate appetite, strengthen stomach and whole intestine, and call it cool melon. Medical books describe quenching thirst and improving eyesight. China has used bitter gourd as a medicinal plant since ancient times. Bitter gourd is mentioned in ancient documents such as Disaster Relief Materia Medica and Compendium of Materia Medica. In terms of diabetes, everyone emphasizes that it can "quench thirst" and "cure vexation and thirst to induce drinking". Li Shizhen, a great pharmacologist in the Ming Dynasty, said: "Bitter melon tastes bitter, cold and nontoxic, and it has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving fatigue, clearing away heart fire and improving eyesight, benefiting qi and strengthening yang". Thirst is thirst, even if you drink more water, you will still be thirsty, that is, you can use bitter gourd. Because the heat accumulated in internal organs will consume water, you will feel thirsty, which is equivalent to one of the symptoms of diabetes. At this time, bitter gourd can be used to improve. In addition, "improving eyesight" means improving eyesight and treating eye diseases. Bitter gourd is very effective for retinopathy, one of the three major complications of diabetes. In the process of diabetes, white blood cells are often affected by hyperglycemia, and their immunity is reduced, so they are vulnerable to infection, not only catching a cold, but also getting skin purulent. At this time, besides eating bitter gourd, bitter gourd leaves and vines are also very effective. However, any vegetable with medicinal effects can't be eaten directly in large quantities, so it has to be made into soup or bitter gourd juice, or processed into various forms, which is easier to ingest. Bitter gourd juice is easy to absorb and has a good effect on the body. Drinking raw fruit juice can be quickly absorbed by the body, so it can absorb many effective components of bitter gourd. Bitter gourd juice method 1 Bitter gourd is put into a blender to stir, and then filtered to get juice. ② It can be matched with soda water and apple juice. ③ Add honey or sugar to taste.