Loofah is not only used to wash pots and stoves

There is no stove without smoke, and there is no loofah for washing pots. Loofah is the mesh tissue obtained by removing the skin and seeds of old loofah. It is the most common helper for washing dishes and pots in rural areas. With hot water, it can wash pots and dishes clean even without detergent.

However, in the eyes of traditional Chinese medicine, it is a waste to use loofah as a dishcloth. In fact, it is a very good Chinese medicine that can dispel wind, dredge meridians and promote blood circulation.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that loofah is sweet in taste, cool in nature, and enters the lung, liver, and stomach meridians. It has the effects of dispelling wind, unblocking meridians, and activating blood circulation. According to the Compendium of Materia Medica, it can open up the human meridians and internal organs, remove wind and detoxify, reduce swelling and resolve phlegm, relieve pain and kill parasites, and treat various blood diseases.

In traditional Chinese medicine, loofah is often used to treat rheumatism, muscle spasms, milk blockage in women, phlegm-heat cough, heat-toxic carbuncle, hemorrhoids, edema, urinary difficulty, blood in the stool, metrorrhagia and other symptoms. Modern research also shows that loofah has the effects of diuresis and swelling, pain relief, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant. It can also lower blood lipids and blood sugar and prevent myocardial ischemia.

Using loofah in this way has unique therapeutic effects on some common diseases, saving the effort of going to the pharmacy:

1. Boil loofah in water and apply it to the eczema areas on your body to easily treat eczema.

2. If you have little milk or lactation during breastfeeding, you can use 30 grams of loofah and 60 grams of figs to stew pig's trotters or pork, and eat the meat and soup together. It has the function of dredging the meridians and promoting lactation. It is very suitable for those who have little milk or lactation after childbirth.

3. Luffa is also a good medicine for patients with joint pain. Soak 150 grams of luffa and 500 ml of white wine together for 7 days and drink it to have miraculous effects.

4. If there is bleeding from a wound, you can also fry the loofah into charcoal to stop the bleeding. It can also be used with palm charcoal to treat bloody stools and metrorrhagia.

5. Boil 15 grams of loofah, 24 grams of honeysuckle, 12 grams of clematis, and 15 grams of Millettia reticulata in water and drink it to relieve and treat rheumatic joint pain.

6. Using loofah in this way can also help with dysmenorrhea: 20 grams of loofah, 12 grams of mugwort, 30 grams of motherwort, and 12 grams of brown sugar, decocted in water and taken orally.

7. Drinking loofah soup as tea is a good way to cool off in summer. It can not only clear away heat and detoxify, promote blood circulation and clear heat, but also has a diuretic effect. It also has a good effect on symptoms of phlegm heat and cough.

Loofah has many functions, and it is no exaggeration to say that it is a friend of women. Not only because it helps to easily deal with washing dishes and pots, but also because it can bring many benefits to girls' health.