Loofah flesh is also known as loofah, loofah can be boiled in water to promote lactation, the practice of decoction soup for internal use or as a medicinal diet.
Loofah is the vascular bundle of the dried mature fruit of the plant loofah, which is used in traditional Chinese medicine, cool in nature, sweet in taste, and belongs to the lung, stomach and liver meridians. Loofah has the effect of detoxification and elimination of swelling, and activation of the channels and collaterals.
The main treatment for heat paralysis (often manifested as burning, pain, redness and swelling of joints and muscles, etc.), lactation, lung-heat cough, muscular contracture (continuous tension and stiffness of muscles) (continuous tension, stiffness and contracture of muscles), edema and ascites, carbuncle (redness, swelling and pain of breasts and poor discharge of milk, and ultimately the formation of suppurative diseases), eczema, carbuncle sores and poison, and pain in the chest and ribs.
Loofah can be boiled in water to promote lactation, the practice of decoction soup; loofah can also be made into medicinal meals, such as loofah, fig stewed pork or pig’s hooves to take, the treatment of breast milk less passable.
Loofah is non-toxic, its adverse reactions, contraindications and precautions are not yet clear. If this product is used with other drugs, drug interactions need to be considered. Silkworm lactation should be applied in accordance with the doctor’s instructions, not self-medication, to avoid causing adverse consequences, delay the condition.