How to eat bitter melon

As the temperature gets higher and higher, the water content in the air begins to gradually decrease, so it is very easy to get angry in such an environment. If you get a sore throat, it is actually best to eat some heat-clearing foods, such as bitter melon. So, how to eat bitter melon? The easiest way is to serve it cold. Of course, if you want to reduce internal heat faster, the bitterer the bitter gourd, the better the effect. In addition to serving it cold, you can also stir-fry it.

Clearing away heat and detoxifying: Bitter melon can relieve the heat in your heart and eliminate toxins in your body. The best way to eat bitter melon is to eat it cold. Eating bitter melon cold can preserve the vitamins contained in it very well. If stir-frying is used, these vitamins will be lost in large quantities during the process, and the oil content after stir-frying is relatively high. People will ingest more fat after eating it, and it will not have the effect of cooling down and reducing heat.

Nourishing and rejuvenating the skin: Eating bitter melon regularly can enhance the vitality of the skin and make the skin delicate and healthy. Mashing fresh bitter melon into juice or boiling it into a soup is a good auxiliary food therapy for liver-fire red eyes, stomach pain, and damp-heat dysentery. Mashing fresh bitter melon and applying it externally can treat carbuncles and furuncles. Children are prone to prickly heat in summer, so cut bitter melon into slices and rub it on the prickly heat on your body to help it heal soon. Boiling bitter melon in water or cooking it as a delicacy can dissipate heat and relieve summer heat.

Lowering blood sugar: Clam meat and bitter melon soup is an excellent product for lowering blood sugar. The crude extract of bitter melon contains insulin-like substances and has a significant blood sugar-lowering effect. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that bitter melon is sweet, bitter and cold in nature, and can clear away heat, relieve restlessness and quench thirst; clam meat is sweet, salty and cold, and can clear away heat, nourish yin, quench thirst and promote diuresis. The combination of the two can clear away heat and nourish yin, and is suitable for patients with diabetes who have stomach yin deficiency and heat.

Nourishing blood and liver: Bitter melon tastes bitter, is cold when raw, and warm when cooked. Eating it raw can clear away heat and reduce fire, relieve fever and relieve restlessness; eating it cooked can nourish blood and liver, moisten the spleen and tonify the kidneys, eliminate evil heat, relieve fatigue, clear the heart and improve eyesight, and replenish qi and strengthen yang. However, when eating bitter melon, you should also be careful not to damage the spleen and lung qi. Although the weather is hot in the summer, people should not eat too much bitter food, and it is best to pair it with spicy food (such as chili, pepper, onion, and garlic). This can prevent the bitterness from entering the heart and help replenish the lung qi.