If you want to talk about one of the most popular Internet rumors recently, it is definitely inseparable from "loofah soup".
Xiaohongshu blogger @找zi, one person, has multiple roles in a single part, staged a family sitcom drama, performing intergenerational communication conflicts between family members. Among them, the elder's words "What are you so fierce? Do you know that your liver fire is too strong? Drink some loofah soup to reduce your anger!" The fire broke out.
Then, this sentence was evolved into "Everything can be used as a loofah soup" by netizens. When someone forcibly input a certain idea into you or argues with others, you can respond with "You drink some loofah soup!".
Following this hot joke, I want to tell you that loofah has the effect of reducing anger! In addition, autumn is also the season when pumpkins are on the market. I have an appointment to ask you how to eat pumpkins delicious~
Luffa has many effects such as clearing fire
Luffa is also called Tianluo, Tianluo, Bugu, Mangu, Fish and Pearl, and is a fresh and tender fruit of the Cucurbitaceae plant loofah or Guangdong loofah.
Guangdong loofah is mainly cultivated in Guangdong and Guangxi. It is rare in northern regions. It is a plant of different species of the same family and genus as loofah, and its effects are similar to loofah. Generally speaking, we collectively call both types "loofah".
Luffa has the beautiful name of "melon, fruit, medicinal materials" and "plant jellyfish". It can not only relieve sweating and thirst, but also have the following effects:
Eliminate heat and eliminate phlegm and loofah tastes sweet and cool in nature. It mainly enters the liver meridian and stomach meridian, and has the effect of eliminating heat and resolving phlegm.
For people who often experience symptoms such as cough, phlegm or throat discomfort, they often use loofah to make soup and water or porridge, which has a good relief effect.
Clearing heat and detoxifying If symptoms such as fever and bleeding from brushing teeth often occur, the heat and detoxifying effect of loofah can be relieved.
After sweating too much in summer, you will feel restless and irritable. If you drink some loofah soup at this time, it will have a good effect of clearing heat and relieving heat.
Skin beautification From a nutritional perspective, loofah is rich in vitamin C and vitamin B. These nutrients can help skin care and whiten skin, improve body resistance, and even delay aging.
Luffa is a food with a high dietary fiber content, which can promote defecation and relieve abdominal discomfort caused by stool problems.
Note
Luffa is cold in nature and has the effect of slipping the intestines and causing diarrhea. People with spleen and stomach deficiency should eat it with caution. Luffa can be eaten directly or used as medicine
Luffa can be eaten as a vegetable and used as medicine, and can be used as medicine throughout the body, so it is also loved by the people.
Boiling loofah peel in water to bathe can remove prickly heat and clear away heat and toxins, and there are no side effects, so the baby can use it.
Don't throw away the peeled skins of loofah when you eat, put them on the balcony to dry and put them away. Add water before bathing and put it in a pot and cook for 15 minutes. Mix the cooked loofah water into the bath water.
The traditional loofah liquid is the juice that flows out after cutting the growing loofah vines. It is also called "loofah injury fluid". It has the effects of whitening, moisturizing, wrinkle removal, anti-inflammatory and calming.
Wash and peel the loofah, cut it into small pieces, squeeze juice, put a piece of compressed mask paper in, and apply it to the face for 15 minutes after sucking the juice. After sun exposure or dry skin, it will become soft and tender after applying it, which is very comfortable.
Luffa Loofah is usually commonly used in the old loofah used when washing dishes. In fact, it also has the effects of dispelling meridians, venting blood, and eliminating rheumatism.
Note: You cannot eat gourds, loofahs, gourds and other vegetables under special conditions, a kind of bitter toxic substance: cucurbite. The cucurbita in bitter loofah is also difficult to remove after heating. If you take it accidentally, symptoms of poisoning may occur within half an hour to several hours, and in severe cases, there are also life-threatening worries.
Several dietary treatments for loofah
Steamed loofah with garlic
Ingredients: loofah, garlic, appropriate amount of oil, salt and other condiments.
Preparation: Peel the loofah and cut it into small pieces, and draw a cross knife on the section of the section facing upwards; chop the garlic and stir-fry it with oil and season it, and place it on the loofah section; boil the water and steam it for 3 to 5 minutes, remove it and drizzle it with hot oil.
Luffa Pie Tea
Ingredients: loofah peel, rock sugar, green tea.
Method: Wash the loofah, scrape off the green skin, and dry it; take some of it each time and put it in a cup, add boiling water to brew, simmer for 10 minutes before drinking; you can add rock sugar to season according to the taste. This tea is suitable for people who are usually prone to getting angry, irritable, and acne.
Luffa Egg Soup
Ingredients: loofah, eggs, oil and salt.
Method: Peel the loofah and cut it into pieces; beat the egg into a bowl, add appropriate amount of peanut oil and salt, and add a small amount of purified water to make the egg liquid; heat the wok, add oil, pour the egg liquid, fry both sides, fry it yellow, shovel into small pieces, add purified water, and bring to boil over high heat; add loofah for two or three minutes after boiling, add salt and season. This soup is light and sweet, can clear heat and dampness, relieve fire and unblock the meridians.
Fried lean meat with loofah
Ingredients: loofah, lean meat, garlic, condiments.
Method: Peel the loofah and cut it into pieces; slice the lean meat, add appropriate amount of oil and salt and mix well; chop the garlic; heat the wok, add the oil, add the garlic and stir-fry, add the lean meat, stir-fry until it is 70% mature, and then add the oil to the pot, add the loofah, add a small amount of boiling water, stir-fry until it is 50% mature, add the meat slices, stir-fry for two or three minutes, add salt to season, and put it on a pan.
Luffa Tea
材料：丝瓜络、桂枝、龙眼。
How to make: boil water and drink it instead of tea. Gout patients can drink it normally, and the dosage of loofah can be doubled when it is painful. Loofah can promote diuresis and remove dampness, while cinnamon twigs warm yang and transform water. People with arthritis and gout can be used for conditioning and relieve pain significantly. Autumn pumpkin is in season
After the "Luffa Soup" video became popular, blogger @淡 talked about pumpkin in a new video.
Autumn and winter are the season for pumpkin to be on the market. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that pumpkin is warm in nature and sweet in taste. It enters the spleen and stomach meridians, and has the effects of nourishing the spleen and stomach, moistening the lungs and nourishing qi, promoting constipation and diuresis, nourishing the kidneys and hearts.
Pumpkin fruits, pulp, seeds, roots, vines, beards, flowers, stems, leaves and seeds that germinate in the fruit (Chinese medicine name "Panyancao") can be used as medicine.
The following dietary therapy recipes are recommended. Interested neighbors may wish to try:
Golden Pumpkin Soup Ingredients: Pumpkin and pure milk take as much as needed. Method: Peel and steam the pumpkin and press it into pumpkin puree; add an appropriate amount of fresh milk and stir evenly. Efficacy: Strengthens the spleen and stomach and promotes blood circulation.
Ingredients for pumpkin millet porridge: 300 grams of pumpkin, 100 grams of millet. Method: Wash the pumpkin, peel and remove the pulp, then cut into small pieces, and wash the millet; add appropriate amount of water to the pot and boil, add millet and pumpkin pieces, boil over high heat, and cook until the millet is soft and the pumpkin is ripe. Efficacy: Tonify the middle and nourish qi, strengthen the spleen and stomach.
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Ingredients for Pumpkin Yam Cup: 1 small pumpkin, about 30 grams of yam, and an appropriate amount of white sugar. Method: Cook the yam and grind it into a paste. Cut the pumpkin off the top, dig off the pulp, and place it in a bowl; put the yam paste into the pumpkin, steam it in water for 30 minutes, and then add sugar to season according to your personal taste. Efficacy: nourishes the spleen and stomach, produces fluid and nourishes the lungs, nourishes the kidneys and astringes essence.
Reminder: Diabetics, damp heat, diarrhea, and jaundice must control the total amount when consumed.
In addition, pumpkin can also be used instead of some staple food, which can reduce total calorie intake and provide a stronger feeling of fullness. Pumpkin has lower calories than common staple foods, usually 1/5~1/10 of steamed buns, noodles, and rice. However, its dietary fiber content is relatively high. For example, the dietary fiber content of chestnut pumpkin is 1 times higher than that of steamed buns and 8.6 times that of rice.
The following points should be noted: 1. "Replacement" means not to eat pumpkin as a snack after eating staple food, which is equivalent to extra calories; 2. "Part" means that it is not recommended to eat pumpkin only at staple food. After all, the calories of pumpkin are much lower than other staple foods. If you only use pumpkin as staple food for a long time, it is easy to cause calorie deficit and malnutrition.
Integrated source: Guangdong Traditional Chinese Medicine, China Traditional Chinese Medicine News, Popular Science China, Beijing Satellite TV I am a doctor's official Weibo account, Health China
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