Loofah helps eliminate foot sweat.

All parts of the loofah plant are used as medicinal remedies without any side effects.

According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, loofah has a sweet taste, a cooling nature, and is non-toxic. It is used to regulate menstruation, stop vaginal discharge, calm the liver and relieve wind, clear heat, moisturize the skin, unblock meridians, promote urination and defecation, and improve blood circulation. Mature loofah, when burned to ashes, can be used as medicine to dispel wind, dissolve phlegm, cool the blood, detoxify, kill bacteria, unblock meridians, and promote lactation. According to the "Lu Chuan Materia Medica," loofah helps to quench thirst, relieve fever and irritability, moisturize the skin, treat thirst caused by fever, and alleviate body heat and restlessness.

Modern medicine has discovered that the fruit, leaves, and vines of the loofah plant can all be used to treat illnesses. Loofah can be used to prepare many delicious dishes, refreshing drinks, and medicinal remedies. The loofah fruit contains a lot of water, protein, lipids, carbohydrates, cellulose, calcium, phosphorus, iron, beta-carotene, vitamins B1, B6, B2, and C…

- Loofah vine has an inhibitory effect on staphylococcus bacteria.

- Loofah sponges have anti-inflammatory and diuretic effects.

- Loofah leaves are effective in preventing wrinkles and beautifying the complexion.

- Loofah not only has anti-inflammatory, anti-wrinkle, and beautifying properties, but also helps in treating sore throats, coughs, asthma, mumps, whooping cough, toothaches, backaches, smallpox, blocked milk ducts, menstrual cramps, excessive menstruation, and cystitis.

Women with excessive menstruation should eat stir-fried loofah with shrimp (including the shells). This dish is both therapeutic and beneficial for health and skin beauty.

Loofah and its uses for skin beauty

The fruit, leaves, and vines of the loofah plant all have anti-wrinkle properties. Take a very young loofah fruit, leaf, or vine, crush it, and squeeze out the juice. Apply this loofah juice to your face several times a day. Not only can it keep your skin beautiful, but it can also help treat conditions such as freckles, folliculitis, and redness of the nose caused by excessive alcohol consumption.

A Japanese writer lived to be 90 years old, and at 80, her skin was still smooth and radiant. Every morning, she would use a cotton towel, dab it with loofah juice, and apply it to her face. She did this for decades without interruption.

Here's how to extract loofah juice for facial beauty: Cut a loofah vine about 50cm from the ground with scissors, bending the remaining vine so the cut end faces downwards. Insert it into a clean glass jar. Seal the jar tightly with tape. Once the jar is full of loofah juice, filter it through a fine-mesh cloth. Pour the filtered loofah juice into a bottle and refrigerate for later use. When using, add a drop of fragrant oil and a little alcohol to the loofah juice.

Supports the treatment of hypertension.

300g fresh loofah, 200g local apples, 50g lemon, rock sugar to taste. Peel and wash the loofah and apples, chop them into small pieces, and extract the juice. Mix the juice with lemon juice and rock sugar, and use as a refreshing drink throughout the day. Each course lasts 10 days.

Milk flow promotion, increased milk production

Take one fresh loofah gourd and 10g of salt, boil them with 1 liter of water, and have the postpartum woman drink it until her milk supply increases. Alternatively, you can cook loofah gourd with pork trotters and eat it with rice daily. Continue this for 5 consecutive days.

Cooling off in the summer

Wash 500g of loofah, cut it into small pieces, and extract the juice (using a juicer is best). Mix the juice with white sugar and use it as a refreshing drink throughout the day. Benefits: Clears heat, dissolves phlegm, reduces inflammation, and quenches thirst.

Treating sore throat

Wash the loofah leaves thoroughly, crush them with a little salt, add water, strain, and drink the mixture all at once.

Treating persistent cough and asthma

Boil 15g of loofah leaves in water to make a drink, or process them into a liquid extract at a ratio of 1/1, taking 0.5ml each time.

Treating high fever and headache.

20g of loofah flowers, 100g of mung beans. Cook the mung beans with their hulls until tender, then extract about 400ml of broth. Remove the mung bean solids, add the finely chopped loofah flowers, and boil for 5-10 minutes. Let cool. Strain the liquid and drink in 2-3 portions throughout the day.

Treating hives

Take a handful of fresh loofah leaves, crush them to make a juice, add a little camphor, and apply it to the sores or rashes.

Treating excessive foot sweating

Burn a mature gourd to ashes, sprinkle the ashes inside your shoes, and wear the shoes barefoot without socks for 15 consecutive days.

Note: This product is not suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach, or those who experience abdominal pain and loose stools.

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