How to make bitter melon soup

Here I will tell you about the method and efficacy of bitter melon soup:

Bitter Melon Soup Ingredients:

500 grams of bitter gourd, 100 grams of soaked shiitake mushrooms, 100 grams of winter bamboo shoots, 1000 grams of fresh soup, and appropriate amount of salt.

Bitter melon soup method:

1. Remove the stems and pulp of bitter melon and cut into thick slices; cut winter bamboo shoots into thin slices, remove the stems of mushrooms and cut into thin slices

2. Add appropriate amount of water to the pot, bring to a boil, blanch the bitter gourd slices, and drain.

3. Wash the soup pot and place it on high heat. Heat oil until 70% hot, stir-fry bitter melon, pour in fresh soup, bring to a boil, add winter bamboo shoots and mushroom slices, cook until soft, and add salt to taste.

Bitter melon benefits:

1. Bitter melon has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, nourishing blood and invigorating qi, nourishing the kidney and strengthening the spleen, nourishing the liver and improving eyesight. It has certain effects on the treatment of dysentery, sores, heatstroke and fever, excessive prickly heat, conjunctivitis and other diseases.

2. Bitter melon is high in vitamin C, which can prevent scurvy, protect cell membranes, prevent atherosclerosis, improve the body's stress resistance, and protect the heart.

3. The active ingredients in bitter melon can inhibit the carcinogenesis of normal cells and promote the recovery of mutated cells, and have a certain anti-cancer effect.

4. Momordica charantia in bitter melon is known as the "fat killer" and can reduce the intake of fat and polysaccharides. It can clear away heat and remove heart fire, detoxify, improve eyesight, replenish qi and essence, quench thirst and relieve heat, and treat carbuncle.

5. Bitter melon contains bitter melon saponins (also known as saponins), which have medicinal and health functions such as lowering blood sugar, lowering blood lipids, anti-tumor, preventing osteoporosis, regulating endocrine, anti-oxidation, anti-bacteria, and improving human immunity.

The therapeutic value of bitter melon

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

It has the effects of clearing away heat and summer heat, improving eyesight and detoxifying, lowering blood pressure and blood sugar, promoting diuresis and cooling blood, relieving fatigue and clearing the mind, and invigorating qi and strengthening yang.

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.

Note: People with cold nature should use with caution.