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Although bitter melon is bitter, its value is not "bitter". Let me lead you to learn more about bitter melon:

Introduction

Also known as bitter melon, balsam pear, brocade lychee, and balsam grape. The fruit of the bitter melon plant of the Cucurbitaceae family is native to tropical Asia and is widely distributed in tropical, subtropical and temperate regions. It has a long history of cultivation in India, Japan and Southeast Asia, and has a cultivation history of about 600 years in China. Bitter melon has a special bitter taste, but it is still loved by the public. This is not only because of its special taste, but also because it has magical effects that ordinary vegetables cannot match. Although bitter melon is bitter, it will never pass the bitterness to "others". For example, when cooking fish with bitter melon, the fish pieces will never be stained with bitterness, so bitter melon is also known as "gentleman's dish".

Function and indications:

It can eliminate evil heat, relieve fatigue, clear the mind, sharpen the ears and eyes, moisturize the skin, strengthen the body, make people energetic and prevent aging.

Medicinal value of bitter melon

Dietary value

Bitter melon is bitter, non-toxic, cold in nature, and enters the heart, liver, spleen, and lung meridians;

It is mainly used to treat heatstroke, summer heat and thirst, summer boils, excessive prickly heat, red and swollen eyes, carbuncles and erysipelas, burns and scalds, oliguria and other diseases.

Bitter melon contains protein, carbohydrates, magnesium, calcium, multiple amino acids, momordica charantia, momordica charantia protein, selenium, zinc, vitamin C, potassium, carotene and other ingredients.

Bitter melon contains pectin, which can lower the concentration of cholesterol in the blood and prevent fat accumulation.

This ingredient can also combine with other cholesterol-lowering substances such as vitamin C, magnesium, calcium, manganese, selenium, etc. to form new compounds, thereby enhancing the lipid-lowering effect.

Pharmacological and nutritional studies have shown that bitter melon is rich in the "seventh type" of nutrients - dietary fiber. Dietary fiber can speed up the frequency of intestinal peristalsis and accelerate the excretion of intestinal contents. Dietary fiber can reduce the heat production of food, slow down the absorption of food, and easily produce a feeling of fullness, so it also has an inhibitory effect on obesity.

In recent years, studies have also found that bitter melon can lower blood sugar and blood pressure, prevent and fight cancer, lose weight, and relieve constipation.

Modern medical research believes that bitter melon is cold in nature and bitter in taste. It has the effects of clearing away heat, stimulating appetite, detoxifying and improving eyesight. It is suitable for treating symptoms such as irritability, heatstroke, bad breath, fever and thirst, dysentery, red eye pain, and various cancers.

Nutritional Value

1. Promote diet, reduce inflammation and reduce fever:

2. Anti-cancer and anti-cancer:

The protein components and a large amount of vitamin C in bitter melon can enhance the body's immune function and enable immune cells to kill cancer cells; bitter melon juice contains a certain protein component that can enhance macrophage ability and is clinically effective against lymphosarcoma and leukemia; the trypsin inhibitor extracted from bitter melon seeds can inhibit the protease secreted by cancer cells and prevent the growth of malignant tumors;

3. Lower blood sugar:

The fresh juice of bitter melon contains bitter melon glycosides and insulin-like substances, which has a good blood sugar-lowering effect and is an ideal food for diabetic patients.

Taste.

effect

According to traditional Chinese medicine, bitter melon has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, nourishing blood and replenishing qi, tonifying the kidney and spleen, nourishing the liver and improving eyesight, and has a certain effect on treating dysentery, sores, fever, thirst, heatstroke, excessive prickly heat, conjunctivitis, short and red urine, etc. Because bitter melon is cold in nature, people with weak spleen and stomach should not eat too much.

Suitable for people

1. Suitable for patients with diabetes, cancer and prickly heat;

2. Bitter melon is cold in nature and should not be eaten by people with weak spleen and stomach.

Dosage

1. Don't eat too much at one time.

2. Boil bitter melon in water and scrub the skin to clear away heat, relieve itching and eliminate prickly heat.

3. Eating bitter melon and eggs together can protect bones, teeth and blood vessels, make iron better absorbed, have the effect of strengthening the stomach, and can treat stomach pain, eye pain, colds, typhoid fever, diarrhea and vomiting in children.

Tips

The nodules on the bitter melon are a sign of quality. The bigger and fuller the nodules are, the thicker the melon flesh is; the smaller the nodules are, the thinner the melon flesh is. When choosing bitter melons, you should not only pick those with large nodules and upright fruit rows, but also those that are white and beautiful. If the bitter melon turns yellow, it means it is overripe, the flesh is soft and not crispy enough, and it loses the taste that bitter melon should have.

In summary, bitter melon is not only a popular food among the people, but also has great medicinal value, and is rich in resources and inexpensive. Making bitter melon into a unique flavor of health food and drink that can be used as both medicine and food can not only enrich people's dietary structure, but also give full play to the health function of bitter melon, and can adjust the balanced supply time of bitter melon, opening up new ways for the use of bitter melon.