efficacy
Lower blood sugar.
Normal rabbits and alloxan-induced diabetic rabbits can significantly reduce blood sugar after drinking bitter gourd juice. In rats with hyperglycemia caused by subcutaneous injection of anterior pituitary extract, bitter gourd pulp water extract can also reduce blood sugar. Oral administration of momordica charantia saponin in rabbits can reduce blood sugar, and its action mode is similar to that of tolbutamide, but its hypoglycemic effect on pancreatectomy cats has not completely disappeared, so its hypoglycemic effect includes pancreatic effect and non-pancreatic effect. It is also considered that the hypoglycemic effect of bitter gourd pulp juice and dried fruit extract on normal and diabetic rabbits is not valid. Oral alcohol extract of Momordica charantia does not lower blood sugar in diabetic patients.
Promote diet, diminish inflammation and reduce fever.
Momordicoside and picroside in bitter gourd can stimulate appetite, strengthen spleen and increase appetite. Quinine, an alkaloid substance contained in it, has the effects of promoting diuresis and blood circulation, diminishing inflammation and reducing fever, clearing away heart fire and improving eyesight;
Fight cancer.
The protein component of Momordica charantia and a large amount of vitamin C can improve the immune function of the body and make immune cells have the function of killing cancer cells; Bitter gourd juice contains some protein components, which can enhance the ability of macrophages and is effective for lymphosarcoma and leukemia in clinic. Trypsin inhibitor extracted from bitter gourd seeds can inhibit the protease secreted by cancer cells and prevent the growth of malignant tumors;
Detoxify and lose weight.
Bitter gourd is known as the "fat killer", which can reduce the intake of fat and polysaccharide, and has a good effect of losing weight and lowering blood fat. The whole grass of bitter gourd can be used as medicine. A bitter gourd contains 0.4% of high-energy lipid, which is a special ingredient for losing weight. It mainly contains momordicin, protein-like active substances (α-momordicin, β-momordicin, MAP30), insulin-like active substances (polypeptide -P) and various amino acids. Taking it for Ms. Aimei can speed up detoxification and attract many women to "have fun in bitterness" and enjoy it.
Nutrition and health care.
The nutritional and health care characteristics of bitter gourd are as follows: First, it contains more vitamin C, vitamin B 1 and alkaloids; Secondly, it contains more galacturonic acid and pectin. Bitter taste in bitter gourd comes from quinine in alkaloid. These nutrients have the effects of promoting appetite, diuresis, promoting blood circulation and refreshing the brain.
food therapy
Bitter gourd tastes bitter, non-toxic, cold in nature, and enters the heart, liver, spleen and lung meridians; Has the effects of clearing away heat, relieving summer-heat, improving eyesight, removing toxic substances, inducing diuresis, cooling blood, relieving fatigue, clearing heart fire, invigorating qi and strengthening yang; Indications: heatstroke, summer heat, polydipsia, summer furuncle, excessive miliaria, red eyes, swelling and pain, carbuncle, erysipelas, burns, oliguria, etc.
Beauty function
Bitter gourd can moisturize white skin, calm and moisturize skin, especially in hot summer, applying iced bitter gourd slices can immediately relieve skin irritability.
Control acne.
Bitter gourd is also known as bitter gourd, golden litchi, bitter grape, toad, red girl, cold melon and gentleman's dish. Bitter gourd originated in eastern India and spread to southern China in the early Ming Dynasty. Bitter gourd belongs to cucurbitaceae and is an annual vine. Its stems, leaves, flowers and fruits all look strange and can be used as ornamental plants.
Taboo crowd
The general population can eat it. Suitable for patients with diabetes and cancer.
Suitable crowd
Pregnant women and people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold should be careful to eat.
Nutritional value of bitter gourd
Bitter gourd fruit is rich in protein, sugar, minerals and multivitamins. In particular, the content of vitamin C is particularly prominent, which is 14 times that of cucumber, 5 times that of wax gourd and 7 times that of tomato. According to the analysis, every 100g of fresh fruit contains 3g of carbohydrate, 0.9g of protein, 0.2g of fat, 29mg of calcium 18mg of phosphorus, 84mg of vitamin, in addition to iron, vitamins A and B and inorganic salts.
1. Bitter gourd is known as the "fat killer", which can reduce the intake of fat and polysaccharide. Clearing away heat and heart fire, detoxifying and improving eyesight, invigorating qi and essence, quenching thirst and relieving summer heat, and treating carbuncle.
2. Momordica charantia contains momordica charantia saponin (also known as saponin), which has medicinal and health-care functions such as lowering blood sugar, lowering blood fat, resisting tumor, preventing osteoporosis, regulating endocrine, resisting oxidation, resisting bacteria and improving human immunity.
3. Bitter gourd contains special glycoside, which tastes bitter and cold, can stimulate the secretion of saliva and gastric juice, promote appetite and help digestion. In addition, it also has the effect of detoxification and is deeply loved by the masses.
4. Bitter gourd has high vitamin C content, which can prevent scurvy, protect cell membrane, prevent atherosclerosis, improve the body's stress ability and protect the heart.
bitter gourd
Bitter gourd is an annual climbing tender grass with many branches. Stems and branches are pilose. Tendrils are slender and undivided. Petiole slender; Leaf blade membranous, green at the top, light green at the back, palmately veined. Monoecious. Male pedicels slender, puberulent; Bracts green, slightly ciliate; Calyx lobes ovate-lanceolate, white pilose; Corolla yellow, lobes pilose; Stamens free. Female flowers solitary, pedicels puberulent; The ovary is spindle-shaped and the stigma is enlarged. The fruit is spindle-shaped or cylindrical, wrinkled at maturity and orange-yellow. The seeds are rectangular with carvings on both sides. The flowering and fruiting period can be-10 month.
Momordica charantia originated in East India and is widely planted in tropical to temperate regions of the world. China is widely cultivated in the north and south.
Bitter gourd tastes sweet and bitter, and is mainly used as a vegetable or as a sugar stain. Mature pulp and aril can also be eaten.
morphological character
Annual climbing tender herb with many branches; Stems and branches are pilose. Tendrils slender, up to 20 cm long, puberulent, indehiscent.
Petiole thin, white pilose at first, then subglabrous, 4-6 cm long; Leaf blade is ovoid, kidney-shaped or nearly round in outline, membranous, 4- 12 cm in length and width, green at the top, pale green at the back, densely covered with obvious puberulent veins, and the rest hairs are sparse, with 5-7 lobes oval and oblong, with coarse teeth or irregular lobules at the edge, obtuse at the apex, sparse and sharp, and curved semicircular and palmately veined at the base.
The fruit is spindle-shaped or cylindrical, with many tumors and wrinkles, and is 10-20cm long. When it is mature, it is orange with three petals at the top. Most seeds are rectangular, with red aril, 3 small teeth at both ends, engraved on both sides, length 1.5-2 cm, width 1- 1.5 cm. The flowering and fruiting period can be-10 month.