Loofah = dish cloth? It is super blindly Chinese traditional medicine

The 2016-05-22

Yang Puwei keeping in good health

Mention loofah, a lot of people know that the fresh towel gourd was also has a lot of diet nutrition effect. But the old loofah? You may say, old loofah no taste, but the towel gourd is a good helper for washing the dishes, used its readers friends all know that, don't even need detergent to wash bowl chopsticks very clean, but do you know? It was overqualified with it!

Why do you say that?

People familiar with the old loofah in compendium of materia medica have such description: "towel gourd, body, atrial septum affiliate, so it can pass into the context zang-fu organs, and to poison, detumescence phlegm, dispelling insecticidal and treat the blood disease and pain." What does that mean? Is that you don't think old loofah, is precisely this old loofah has bubbled into context viscera "ability! Specific what are the benefits? Let's look at.

Loofah adhering to the fine traditions of the loofah heat, but its heat effect is worse, direct access to our main and collateral channels, this in the "compendium will read" have a clear record: "towel gourd, into the channels and collaterals, pathogenic heat."

There are a lot of ancient Chinese medicine doctor can also think loofah detoxification, this is what reason, or without its antipyretic effect. Because "the fluid in the heat in addition to the wind, will not combine for phlegm, become a swelling of the disease, so the cloud detoxification ears." In popular culture is the towel gourd can prevent wind hot evil fluid to swell in the meridian of toxic substances (TCM phlegm referring to accumulate in the body of the pathological substances, is different from western medicine concept of sputum).

If you because real heat caused by acne acne is overmuch, can try loofah medicine. The medical code to Lin is recorded by loofah can "cool blood oozing, channels and collaterals, acne poison."

If you have a cough phlegm is not easy to produce, especially hot phlegm may wish to try and towel gourd. Because of the "new materia medica" recorded in it can "meridian, and blood, phlegm qi."

If many breastfeeding women breast care undeserved can appear the symptom of breast swelling and pain, loofah sponge is also a good helper! Because the classification herbs, explicitly specify it can "cure breast swelling pain," concrete production and taking method is "rushed wine and fire burnt deposit sex." If you are scalded it can also help, because the book is recorded it "sharing research at the end of the adjustable balm with soup."

Refer to attached introduction:

To treat chest pain: about Fried loofah, radix paeoniae rubra, radix paeoniae alba, rhizoma corydalis each 9 g, green husk 6 grams. A decoction. (the Chinese herbal medicine in anhui)

Obstruction and head pain: loofah 15 grams, tangerine pith 3 grams, 10 grams of salvia miltiorrhiza, scallions white 12 g. The water decoction. (traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) volunteers in sichuan)

Much phlegm cough, chest pain: about old loofah to burn sex, fine grind. Sugar mix, 2 grams each time, 2 ~ 3 times a day, warm boiled water. Traditional Chinese medicine (the food and then party ")

Cure rheumatoid arthritis pain: loofah 15 grams, honeysuckle stem 24 g, 12 g clematis root, caulis spatholobi 15 g. The water decoction. (the Chinese herbal medicine in shandong's handbook)

Arm pain: loofah 10 grams, 6 grams of gentiana macrophylla, notopterygium, 3 g safflower 4.5 grams, water decoction. (institute of traditional Chinese medicine prescription yindong (the common diseases)

Cure hemiplegia after stroke: loofah, radix achyranthis bidentatae each 10 grams, 30 grams of ramulus mori, astragalus root each. The water decoction. (traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) volunteers in sichuan)

Put milk less impassability: 30 grams of loofah, FIG 60 grams. Pig's feet or pork stew. (traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) volunteers in sichuan)

To treat acute mastitis, sore furuncle swollen poison: each 9 g, Dan loofah, honeysuckle, dandelion each 15 grams, Fried hovenia dulcis 12 g. A decoction. (the Chinese herbal medicine in anhui)

Cure eczema: loofah 60 grams. Water decoction, fume wash affected area. (the Chinese herbal medicine in shandong's handbook)

Edema, ascites: loofah 60 grams. The water decoction. (the Chinese herbal medicine in shandong's handbook)

Treated as the wind: and vulva itching loofah 30 grams, cloves 60 grams. Fried 10000 ml water. Sitz bath, 2 ~ 3 times a day, every time 20 ~ 30 min. (the ulcers topical material medica)

[note: the above prescription is for reference only, please use under the guidance of TCM doctor."