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Luffa is the fresh fruit of the gourd plant Luffa or Cantonese Luffa, also known as hanging gourd. It is native to Southeast Asia and was introduced to my country in the Ming Dynasty and became a commonly eaten vegetable. Luffa has the highest medicinal value and can be used as medicine throughout the body. The various nutrients contained in luffa are higher than melon foods, and the special substances such as saponins, luffa bitterness, mucilage, wood glue, citrulline, xylan and interferon have certain special effects.
nutritional value
Luffa contains anti- skin Aging B vitamins, skin whitening vitamin C and other ingredients can protect the skin, eliminate plaques, and make the skin white and tender. It is a rare beauty product, so loofah juice is called "beauty water". For women, eating more loofah can also help regulate irregular menstruation.
1. Anti-scurvy:
Luffa contains high vitamin C content and can be used to fight scurvy and prevent various vitamin C deficiencies.；
2. Brain health and beauty:
Due to the high content of vitamin B in loofah, it is beneficial to children's brain development and middle school. elderly brain healthy ； The juice of the loofah cane has the special function of maintaining skin elasticity and can beautify and remove wrinkles. ；
3. Anti-viral and anti-allergic:
Luffa extract has a significant preventive effect on the Japanese encephalitis virus. An anti-allergic substance, Epsomal glycolic acid, is also extracted from the luffa tissue culture fluid, which has a strong anti-allergic effect.
Edible effect
Luffa is sweet in taste and cool in nature, and enters the liver and stomach meridians.；
It can eliminate heat and resolve phlegm, cool blood and detoxify, relieve heat and relieve troubles, stimulate menstruation, activate collaterals, and expel wind.；
Used to treat febrile diseases such as body heat, polydipsia, and phlegm and asthma. cough , intestinal wind, hemorrhoids, metrorrhagia, vaginal discharge, bloody stranguria, treatment of sores and carbuncles, women's lactation insufficiency and other diseases.
Luffa is sweet in taste and neutral in nature. It can pass through the twelve meridians, unblock meridians and activate meridians, clear away heat and resolve phlegm.
Applicable people
It can be consumed by the general population.
1. Irregular menstruation Those who suffer from physical fatigue, phlegm, wheezing and cough, Postpartum Women with lactation difficulties should eat more loofah；
2. Physical weakness and internal cold, diarrhea Patients should not eat too much.
