Benefits Squash

If you like the scent of wet soil, then a vegetable called Latin Luffa aegyptica favorite vegetables can be used. I call it the Gambas or Oyong. Plants from familia Cucurbitaceae is usually called  squash or sponge fruit. Perhaps because the fruits is soft and textured fruit is similar to a sponge.

The fruit often used as vegetable soup with spinach. Although physically appears as the wild vines and the shape is not interesting, apparently the squash has many benefits for health. Almost all parts of the plant have efficacy for the treatment of squash.

Before discussing the merits of squash, it is worth discussing in more detail about the squash plant based on chemical properties, pharmacological effect, and chemical content. To facilitate delivery, please note the following table:
 

Parts Plant	Chemical properties	Pharmacological effects	Chemical Ingredients
fruit	Sweet, cool, flavorful ground	- Enter the liver meridian, stomach and kidneys - Cleanse toxins and heat - Remove sputum	Saponin, luffein, citrulline, cucurbitacin
seed	Bitter, cold	- Expedite urinary - Removing heat	fat, squalene, alpha spinasteol, protein, cucurbitacin B
leaf	bitter	Clean the blood	saponin
flower	Sweet, slightly	Relieve shortness of breath	Glutamine, lysine, alamine, aspartice acid, arginine
fiber	bitter, cold	- Make a smooth blood circulation -Eliminate heat and phlegm	Xylan, cellulose, galaktosa, manitosa, saponin
root	Sweet, neutral	- Blood circulation -Eliminate swelling	Cellulose, saponin
rod	Sweet, neutral	- Enter the heart meridian, spleen and kidney - Make a smooth blood circulation -Killing worms	saponin

This is the benafical table:
 

* Note: There should not be consumed by pregnant women and weak spleen function.

 

Part of Plant	Usefulness	How To Use *
Fruit	Irregular menstruation	1. Pieces of fruit by 4 fingers washed and shredded. 2. The results of grated kneaded with half a cup of water and a little salt. 3. Then squeezed and filtered. 4. Drink a day 3kali
Seed	back pain	1. seeds are roasted until charred 2. Then ground up into powder 3. Pour the warm water and drink 4. The waste smeared on the affected part.
Leaf	Bleeding in women	1. The leaves are roasted until dark and then milled to be powder. 2. A total of 20 grams of powder brewed with warm water and drink
Flower	cough and asthma	1. Boil 10-15 grams of flowers, add honey to taste. chill 2. After chilling filtered and drunk.
Root	Migraine	1. Boil 150 grams of fresh root plus 2 eggs duck. 2. Strain and drink the water boiled. 3. The eggs can be eaten
	Ulcer	Old roots boiled, the water is used to compress the swollen boils.