Although loofah is a common summer vegetable, due to its beauty and skin care effects and its ability to prevent and treat some gynecological diseases, it should become a vegetable that women love more.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that loofah is neutral in nature and sweet in taste, and has the effects of unblocking meridians, promoting blood circulation, and cooling blood to detoxify. Especially the old loofah, with its veins running through, is similar to the human body's meridians. With the help of the Qi of the old loofah, it can guide the human body's meridians to be unobstructed and the Qi and blood to be smooth, so that the unsmooth menstrual blood will naturally become smooth.
Now, several traditional loofah remedies are introduced as follows:
1. Beauty Known as "beauty water". Cut the growing loofah vine, and apply the flowing juice to the face or skin with a gauze to moisturize the skin and prevent wrinkles. You can also squeeze the loofah directly, mix it with an appropriate amount of honey or glycerin, and apply it, which also has a good effect.
2. Uterine bleeding, grind evenly and set aside. Take 3-6 grams each time, take it with salt soup or yellow wine, twice a day, which is effective for uterine bleeding or hemorrhage. Using roasted black loofah seeds or leaves, ground into powder, and taken with salt water can also treat menorrhagia.
3. Menstrual irregularity, decoct with water, add an appropriate amount of brown sugar, take it with warm yellow wine, twice a day.
4. Menorrhagia Burn one loofah until it becomes ash, grind it into powder, take 9 grams each time, and take it with salt water. If taken with yellow wine, it has a galactagogue effect. For dysmenorrhea, decoct one loofah in water, take it twice a day.
The best partner for loofah dishes
The best partner for loofah is clams. If you like spicy food, add some red chilies and stir-fry, it will be absolutely flavorful, or make loofah and clam soup. There is a dish called "Loofah and Razor Clap Soup", where razor clams are coated with sweet potato starch to make a soup, and with the addition of loofah, the two harmonize to become an incomparably sweet and delicious dish, which is very refreshing to eat in the summer.