Luffa contains B vitamins that prevent skin aging, Vitamin C that whitens the skin, and other ingredients that can protect the skin, remove blemishes, and make it clear and delicate. It is a rare and excellent beauty product, hence the name "Jia Li Shui" (Beauty Water) for luffa juice. Eating more luffa is also helpful for regulating irregular menstruation in women.
What are the effects of eating luffa?
1. Anti-scorbutic: Luffa is rich in Vitamin C, which can be used to prevent scurvy and various Vitamin C deficiency disorders.
2. Brain health and beauty: Luffa is high in B vitamins, which are beneficial for children's brain development and the brain health of middle-aged and elderly people. The juice from the luffa vine has an exceptional ability to maintain skin elasticity, providing beauty benefits and reducing wrinkles.
3. Antiviral and anti-allergic: Luffa extract has a significant preventive effect against the Japanese encephalitis virus. An anti-allergic substance, bryonolic acid, has also been extracted from luffa tissue culture medium, which has a strong anti-allergic effect.
4. It has the effects of clearing heat, resolving phlegm, cooling the blood, and detoxifying; relieving summer heat, restlessness, regulating menstruation, activating collaterals, and expelling wind.
5. It is used to treat conditions such as fever and thirst with vexation during febrile diseases, phlegmatic wheezing and cough, hemorrhoids and bleeding from the intestines, uterine bleeding, leukorrhea, urinary tract bleeding with blood, sores, carbuncles, and insufficient lactation in women.
6. The loofah sponge is sweet in nature and neutral in nature. It travels through the twelve meridians to unblock collaterals, activate the network vessels, clear heat, and resolve phlegm.