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Towel Gourd

VARIANT NAMES: Tiansigua, Tianluo, Mangua, Bugua, Tiandiaogua, Chunyanggua, Daoyangcai, Shuigua, Xugua, Jiangua.

ORIGIN: The fresh tender fruit of Luffa cylindrica or L. acutangula [Cucurbitaceae].

towel gourd

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION: Containing saponin, towel gourd bitter principle, mucus, citrulline, xylan, fat, vitamin C and B.

NATURE, FLAVOR AND CHANNEL TROPISM: Sweet in flavor and cool in nature, acting on the channels of the liver and stomach.

EFFICIENCIES AND INDICATIONS: Clearing away pathogenic heat and resolve phlegm, cooling the blood and removing toxic materials. It is used to treat fever, restlessness and thirst during the course of febrile diseases, dyspnea and cough due to phlegm retention, fresh blood in stools and Constipation, Abnormal Uterine Bleeding and profuse Leukorrhea, stranguria with blood, Furuncle, galactostasis, Carbuncle and Edema.

DIRECTIONS: To be eaten cooked, or decocted for oral administration, or pounded to get its juice for application to the affected part. Those who suffer from debility with endogenous cold should not eat it excessively.

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