Greens of beautiful loofah, medicine

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        Tomb-sweeping day, in the courtyard on a few of towel gourd, summer and fall, ivy leaves, full of blossoming golden yellow flowers, can not only watch, can always eat fresh towel gourd again.

        Towel gourd is also called "day", "melon", "day DiaoGua", towel gourd "day" and so on, because of its old familiar place can be used to wipe dry after washing cooking utensils, so there is "wash pan melons," said. Loofah native to Indonesia, about to into China in the tang dynasty, to Ming dynasty widely grown in the north and south, has been 1100 years of history. Li shizhen in the "compendium of materia medica" said: "towel gourd, tang and song dynasty has no smell before, now of north and south is, that often height".

        Towel gourd varieties more, more famous include long loofah "nanjing", "Shanghai incense towel gourd", "wuhan white jade cream sponge gourd", "zhejiang green handle white belly loofah", "Beijing great towel gourd", etc., has long been known as the greens of beautiful summer and fall, healers.

        Luffa sexual cold, taste gansu, non-toxic. Has the phlegm and clear heat, cooling blood detoxification, smooth muscle, beauty and other medicinal value. Can be used to "cure polydipsia fever, cough phlegm asthma, ren, taken down, blood spray, furuncle, milk impassability, pain, swelling and so on." the compendium of materia medica "said, towel gourd, body, every affiliate. Thus context viscera of our factory, and go to the wind detoxifying, detumescence phlegm, remove pain, insecticidal, and treat the blood disease. Also, according to the compendium of material medica recorded lu:" towel gourd thirst quenching, except vexed, detoxification cure fever thirsty, the body hot upset ".

        In early summer, towel gourd YingShi, its colour and lustre is green, the melon meat tender, taste fragrance, in addition to unfavorable raw food, whether it is Fried, burned, salad, soup, or with eggs, meat, fish, shrimp, bean curd, soybean seed, tomato, etc made from vegetables, can also be used with these HunSuCai mixture soup, its flavor is delicious, the flavor is better. (Zhou Longxing)

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