Luffa annual herb climbing Cucurbitaceae. Branches with edges, smooth or coarse hair on the edge, with tendrils.
Loofah contains all kinds of nutritious foods high in melons, bitter gourd quality, myxoid stroma, wood glue, citrulline, xylan and interferon other special material has a certain special effect. It originated in tropical Asia. Loofah of Gan Liang, saponin-containing fruit, gastrointestinal hot were the most fit for human consumption, whereas gastrointestinal cold stagnation of people, the staple food must be more with ginger and cook until Shulan very edible. Health pox sores, constipation, dry mouth, nose Gu, bad breath, swollen gums, sputum, urine golden tingling, cooking gourd soup have effect. Inadequate breastfeeding woman can also be used to cook loofah ginger, soy, pig food, can promote the secretion of milk. The old line will cut off the vine, insert the bottle, you can take the gourd of water droplets (dew gourd), is heat or makeup natural clergyman, drink drink can antipyretic, detoxification, cough and phlegm, stomach; smear can be beautiful skin moisturizing, efficacy significant. Elderly blood weak, context flow, myalgia, or use the old loofah loofah soup consumption, with efficacy. Tender fruit seeds contain high lipids, even the best piece of eating seeds. Medicinal: loofah cool sex, blood, pass through, antidotes. But also for the pain, hemostatic, for intestinal bleeding, dysentery, women bleeding, testicular inflammation, swelling, bleeding hemorrhoids, etc., as black burn orally. Melon antitussive, expectorant, diuretic, Zhidou sores. Leaf stem cure sore. Loofah water cough, stomach, detoxification. Loofah to prevent skin aging containing B vitamins, vitamin C and other skin whitening ingredients that can protect the skin, eliminate plaque, skin white, delicate, is a rare beauty to share, it gourd juice "beauty water" said. Loofah higher vitamin C content, it contains 8 mg hectogram can be used for the prevention of scurvy and vitamin C deficiency