Generally speaking, loofah does not have the effect of removing dampness.
According to the nutritional science of Chinese medicine, loofah is sweet in flavor, cool in nature, and belongs to the meridians of lung, stomach, liver and large intestine; it has the efficacy of clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, cooling the blood and detoxifying the toxin.
Loofah can be used to improve lung heat cough, carbuncle (is a kind of heat sores, occurring on the surface of the body, limbs, internal organs of the acute suppurative disease), intestinal wind blood, hemorrhoidal bleeding, as well as leakage (women in the non-menstrual period of the vagina, sudden heavy bleeding or persistent dribbling) and other conditions.
Therefore, loofah does not have the effect of dampness. If you want to get rid of cold dampness in the body, you should take the treatment of warming yang, inducing diuresis and transforming dampness, and you can use Ling Gui Jiu Gan Tang, etc. If you want to get rid of dampness and heat in the body, you need to promote the flow of qi, and clear away dampness and heat, and you can use Sanyin Tang, etc. If you have any discomfort, you should take it in time.
If there are uncomfortable symptoms, patients should go to the hospital in time to receive medical treatment, under the guidance of professional physicians to use medication, do not blindly take on their own, so as not to delay the condition.