Laigua, or bitter melon, has the effect of brightening the eyes, detoxification, eliminating summer heat and purging heat, and has a certain auxiliary improvement effect on summer heat and thirst, red eyes and swollen pain, and fever sores and carbuncles (sores and carbuncles appearing on the surface of the skin because of excessive heat and toxicity in the body) and other diseases. Bitter melon is often used as food and cannot be used as a substitute for medicine to cure diseases.
Traditional Chinese Medicine Nutrition” recorded: bitter melon, also known as Laigua, Lianggua, is a cucurbit plant bitter melon young fruit, cold taste bitter, can be returned to the lungs, spleen and heart meridian, good at the eyesight, detoxification, summer heat to cleanse the heat, will be sliced to soak in water or tea to drink, can be assisted in relieving heat stroke summer fever sweating and thirst syndrome. Fresh bitter melon mashed external, can also cure feverish sores, canker sores, swelling and hot pain.
In addition, the bitter melon internal or external use of red eye swelling pain are effective, because of its cold, Yang Qi deficiency should be prohibited. Bitter melon is usually used as food, so although it has a certain effect, but for some diseases, usually only play an auxiliary role in improving the role, not a substitute for the use of drugs. For the existence of some kind of physical abnormality, if you need to use drugs, also need to be guided by a professional doctor.