Night blooming, also known as gourd, is available in summer. When eating "night blooming", you should first lick it with the tip of your tongue to identify whether it has bitter taste. Eating "night blooming" with bitter taste can easily be poisoned. Gourd is calm in nature and sweet in taste; it enters the lungs, spleen and kidney meridians; it has the effects of inducing water to relieve swelling, quenching thirst and relieving annoyance, clearing strangulation and resolving stagnation; it mainly treats edema and ascites, annoying heat and thirst, sores, jaundice, gonorrhea, carbuncle and other diseases. The method of frying shrimps and blooming at night is quite simple and is also a home-cooked summer dish.
