Fomen gourd as medicinal

Lonely, the fencers enter the sound of springs, but they do not see the mountains and self-cleanliness. The rain and autumn grass grow on a few days, and the gourd grows along the upper wall. In the old days of summer and autumn, a lot of monasteries in our country fell next to the place where people could see the loofahs on their scaffolds. Loofahs were one of the summer foods that the Buddha's Gate had self-catered and eaten. A dish of green loofah on the dish seems to bring a bit of coolness to the monks, which is probably related to the loofah's coolness. In Chinese medicine, the loofah is cool and has the function of clearing away heat and cooling blood and detoxifying the blood. Li Shizhen said in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" that the loofah has the "heat and intestines" and the beauty of clearing and cooling.However, the Buddha used the sponge gourd as a medicine very little.

In ancient India, Buddha Sakyamuni took loofah water as a medicine to treat headaches, abdominal pain, neuralgia, cough, and vomiting. He used loofah water as a nutrient for all diseases and illnesses. Once, among the new disciples of Sakyamuni, there was a young monk from the royal family who, because he had not entered the Buddhist life when he first entered Buddhism, suffered neuralgia and suffered from the symptoms. As a result, medical loofah treated him with water, and soon the neuralgia of the patient was cured. Since then, the illness has never been repeated and the body is very strong. The practice of Buddhism and Taoism has also improved. The method used by Fomen to treat neuralgia with loofah water is taken internally and externally. The pure loofah water is taken orally after warming, and is about 90 ml per day. The loofah water is used to rub the affected area.

Loofah water, also known as “Tianluo water”, is a liquid contained in loofah vines. The method is to select coarse loofah vines after cutting, cutting them near the root, and insert them into the bottle to drain the water continuously. About 400 milliliters per plant is available, crisp and thick, a little green taste. According to "Life Saving Horror", if bottled gourd water is "sealed and buried in soil, it will be better." In the Supplement to the Compendium of Materia Medica, we talked about the story of the water gourd disease: An old man from Xiaoshan, Zhejiang Province sells the "pulmonary abscess water of modern medicine". Wang Shengyu had already described it, that is, this water (ie, loofah water) also. Yu Liqiu took it and used it, more Chen Yujia." "China Herbal Plants Guidebook" also describes the use of this water plus sugar boiled orally, it can indeed suppress cough , It can also treat headaches, abdominal pain, neuralgia, colds, athlete's foot, edema, wine poisoning and so on. According to Buddhist scriptures, Buddha Sakyamuni also listed loofah water as a cough suppressant.

When the heat is extremely hot, the sweat is dripping, it is an anorexic and the body loses energy. Therefore, the saying of summer is born. So refreshing beverages and the like should be on the right, floating melons Shen Li, since ancient times; soda pop ice, in today's prevalence. For ancient Buddhism, one of the main foods for the deaf people who lived poorly and helped them cool off summer was loofah. "Lu Chuan Materia Medica" said: loofah "thirsty, relieve summer heat Chufan. Governance fever thirsty, heat irritability." Buddhist monks broadly plant loofah and summer food, can indeed receive Sheng Jin quench their thirst, refreshing summer heat of the heart, Its power is far better than eating soda pops today. In addition, loofah contains protein, starch, fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron, carotene, riboflavin, niacin, ascorbic acid and other nutrients more comprehensive and abundant, plus loofah color green, refreshing and refreshing, appetizing rice, in the heat In the summer without food, people in the Buddhist monks can prevent the occurrence of summer in the summer and supplement nutrition, which is beneficial to health. Among the temple vegetarians, there is a famous soup dish worth mentioning. This dish is called “Zizhu Lianchi” and it is boiled with loofah as its main ingredient. The name of this dish contains Zen, its color is elegant and light, its taste is fresh and mellow, and people forget about the human taste after eating. In the midsummer, when you taste the green vegetarian food in the vegetarian room of the temple, you feel the coolness of your life and the Buddha's door is considered as a refreshing agent in the snob field.