The efficacy of boiling dried loofah in water

Luffa is a plant we often see. It belongs to the category of vegetables. In daily life, we use it to make dishes, but it can also be dried. Dried loofah is rich in chlorophyll and lutein. Boiling dried loofah in water can beautify the skin, promote blood circulation, clear phlegm and relieve cough, and replenish qi and blood. It is an excellent health product. When boiling with water, the water temperature cannot be too high, because it will easily reduce the vitamin content. Here is a detailed introduction for you.

1. Promote blood circulation and activate collaterals: Loofah is in the shape of an elongated cylinder or spindle. The whole system is composed of multiple layers of silky fibers interwoven into a network, which resembles the blood vessels in the human body. Therefore, this product has the effect of promoting blood circulation and activating collaterals. For symptoms such as chest and flank pain, abdominal pain, back pain, testicular pain caused by blood stasis caused by various reasons, amenorrhea in women, and milk blockage, this product can be used to dredge the meridians and benefit the qi and blood. If the meridians are unblocked, there will be no pain. If the meridians are unblocked, all pains will heal themselves. If the qi and blood flow smoothly, menstruation will return and milk will flow. Therefore, it is an excellent product for dredging the meridians and activating the collaterals.

2. Clearing heat and resolving phlegm: Luffa loofah tastes sweet and cold in nature, and is moist in texture. Cold can clear away heat and enter the lung meridian, so it can clear lung heat, moisten the lungs and resolve phlegm. It is used for cough, asthma, sputum and other symptoms caused by heat in the lung meridian and dysfunction of the descending function. This product can clear lung heat, moisten the lungs and resolve phlegm, treating both the symptoms and the root cause.

3. Cooling blood and stopping bleeding: Luffa sponge is cold in nature and clears away heat, while charcoal can preserve its properties and enter the blood to cool blood. Its charcoal can stop bleeding, so it can cool blood and stop bleeding. It is effective for bloody syndromes such as bloody stool and metrorrhagia, and it is best used for patients with heat in the blood, as it can both cool blood and stop bleeding.

4. Rheumatic arthralgia: Luffa loofah is good at dispelling wind and dredging meridians, but its medicinal power is mild, so it is often used in compound prescriptions. It is used to treat rheumatic pain, tendon spasm, and limb paralysis, and is often used in combination with Qinjiao, Saposhnikovia divaricata, Angelica sinensis, and Millettia reticulata.

5. Chest and flank pain: Luffa can enter the liver to promote blood circulation and dredge meridians. It is often used for chest and flank pain caused by blood stasis. It is often combined with bupleurum, cyperus rotundus, trichosanthes peel, and curcuma.

6. Milk obstruction and mastitis: Luffa loofah is light and laxative, good at unblocking milk channels. It is used together with fenugreek, radix polygoni multiflori, pangolin, pig’s trotter, etc. to treat postpartum milk deficiency or milk obstruction. It is often used together with dandelion, fritillaria thunbergii, trichosanthes, and green tangerine peel to treat mastitis.