Luffa, also known as Tianluo melon, Tianluo melon, cloth melon, etc., is not only edible and medicinal, but also a beauty product. Now follow me to learn about the efficacy and functions of loofah leaves.
The efficacy and function of loofah leaves
Source from "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica"
Pinyin name Sī Guā Y?
English name Leaf of Luffa
Alias: Corycosis leaf
Source
Medicinal source: It is the leaves of Luffa or Luffa, a plant in the Cucurbitaceae family.
Latin plant and animal mineral names: Luffa cylindrica (L.) Roem. L. Acutangula (R.) Roxb.
Harvesting and storage: Harvested in summer and autumn. Dried or used fresh.
Toxicity: Intraperitoneal injection of 1g crude drug/animal has no obvious toxicity.
Bitter in nature and slightly cold in nature
Functions: Clearing away heat and detoxifying; stopping bleeding; dispelling summer heat. Mainly used for carbuncle; boils; sores and tinea; snake bites; soup burns; sore throat; trauma and bleeding; summer heat and polydipsia
Usage and dosage Oral administration: decoction, 6-15g; fresh product 15-60g, or Pound into juice; or grind into powder. External use: appropriate amount, decoct in water and wash; or pound and apply; or grind into powder and mix for application.
Each expert’s discussion
1. "Compendium": For ringworm and sores, mix it frequently to treat carbuncles, swollen penis and egg decay.
2. "Suixiju Diet Spectrum": relieve heat and detoxify. To treat abdominal pain caused by Sha, take it with juice.
3. "Lingnan Medicine Collection": decoct and take it to treat goose throat.
4. "Flora of Guangzhou": Pound it to treat carbuncle and summer skin disease in children. It has the effect of reducing swelling and inflammation. Effects of loofah flowers
[Materials] 10 grams of loofah flowers, 20 grams of honey.
[Preparation method] Brew the loofah flowers in boiling water for 5 minutes, then add honey.
[Usage] 3 times a day, drink while it is hot.
[Efficacy] Clear away heat and purge fire, relieve cough and reduce phlegm.
[Indications] Children with lung-heat, phlegm-heat cough, wheezing and shortness of breath.
[Note] "Southern Yunnan Wood Grass" states that loofah flowers can clear lung heat, eliminate phlegm, relieve cough, sore throat, eliminate polydipsia, and purge fire. When combined with honey, It can enhance its effect of moistening the lungs and relieving cough. Loofah medical records
1. "Compendium of Materia Medica": It can connect people's veins and internal organs, remove wind and detoxify, reduce swelling and phlegm, relieve pain and kill insects, and treat various blood diseases.
2. "Compendium of Materia Medica": Luffa enters the meridians and relieves evil heat. When the heat is removed, the wind will go away, and the body fluids in the collaterals will not combine to form phlegm, which will turn into swelling and poisoning symptoms, so it is said to detoxify the ear.
3. "Yilin Compilation Essentials": Cools blood and oozes blood, dredges meridians, and relieves acne poisons.
4. "Compendium of Materia Medica": dredges meridians, harmonizes blood vessels, resolves phlegm and smoothes Qi.
5. "Classification of Herbal Properties": To treat breast swelling and pain, take the heat-burning properties with wine. Grind it into powder and mix it with sesame oil and apply it on burns.
6. "Modern Practical Chinese Medicine": It relieves breast milk and causes acne sores. Cure carbuncle without restraint. Take it orally as black fever to treat intestinal bleeding, dysentery, uterine bleeding, orchitis and swelling, bleeding hemorrhoids, etc.