Luffa

You may use luffa (Si Gura) to solve some of your health problems. Here we introduce some of folk tips used by Chinese in China for years and years.

The tips may or may not replace your professional treatments. You may try it if you have no time to visit your doctor, have no money to go to him, or if he fails to help you with chemical drugs, or the professional treatments have caused side effects that you cannot tolerate any longer, or you suffer from the trouble again and again while the biomedical system found nothing wrong in your body.

If there are some herb ingredients in the formula and you cannot find it by yourself, welcome to come and check with us, see if we can help you to get it.

It is well known among Chinese that some tips work even much better than doctor's prescription. A good TCM doctor does not and should not refuse to use such “simple” tip for his patients. So many times, we know the tips (as well as the whole TCM) works, though we do not know why it works from modern science point of view. There are so many mysteries around us, even if modern science has tried so hard to understand it.

(1). Cough

Material: luffa seeds, some amount.

How to use: Dry the seeds by baking. Grind into powder. Drink the powder 9 grams each time, three times a day.

(2). Cough

Material: luffa cane juice.

How to use: prepare juice from luffa cane. Drink the juice three times a day, 30 ml each time.

(3). Cough

Material; luffa net material.

How to use: bake the luffa net material to dryness. Grind into powder. Mix the powder with little white sugar. Drink the mixture three times a day, 9 gram each time.

(4). Asthma

Material: luffa with cane, several.

How to use: chop the material, add it into water. Bring to boil for 30 to 60 min. Drink the water extract, three times a day, one third volume each time.

(5). Asthma

Material; luffa cane juice.

How to use: prepare juice from the luffa. Drink it each time when the asthma comes, three times a day. It can be repeated for one week.

(6). Diarrhea

Material: luffa cane and leaves. Press to collect juice.

How to use: drink the juice, three times a day.

(7). Live cirrhosis ascites

Material: luffa seeds, 10g.

How to use: grind the seeds into powder (after drying it). Drink the powder half in the morning and half in the evening.

(8). Stomach bloating

Material: luffa.

How to use: bake or naturally dry the luffa. Grind into powder. Drink it with cook wine.

(9). Stomach pain after baby delivery

Material: old luffa.

How to use: bake the luffa to dryness. Grind into powder. Drink it together with cook wine or brown sugar.

(10). Stomach pain before or during period

Material: dried luffa.

How to use: cut luffa into small pieces. Add it into water. Bring to boil for 30 to 60 min. Drink the water extract. Repeat twice a day.

(11). Lower pack pain in women

Material: luffa net material, 30g.

How to use: add luffa net material into water. Bring to boil for 30 to 60 min. Drink the water extract together with little cook wine.

(12). Irregular menstruation

Material: luffa seeds, cook wine.

How to use: bake the seeds to dry. Add it into water. Bring to boil for 30 to 60 min. Add little brown sugar. Drink the water extract three times a day, with additional of cook wine for drinking.

(13). Overwhelming menstruation

Material: old luffa, one.

How to use: burn the luffa to dark in color. Grind into powder. Drink it with salt water, 9 g each time, three times a day.

(14). Bleeding in stool

Material: luffa (bake to black in color), 30g; Sophorae (Huai hua), 30g.

How to use: mix the material, grind it into powder. Drink the powder twice a day, 6 g each time.

(15). Bleeding in stool

Material: luffa cane, 90g.

How to use: bake the cane into black in color. Grind into powder. Drink it twice a day with addition of little cook wine.

(16). Stimulating feeling in urine tract

Material: luffa sponge.

How to use: add luffa sponge into water. Bring to boil for 30 to 60 min. Drink the water extract.

(17). Stimulating feeling in urine tract

Material: luffa

How to use: bake luffa into yellow in color. Grind into powder. Drink the powder twice a day.

(18). Pain due to hernia

Material: old luffa, one.

How to use: bake luffa to dry. Grind into powder. Drink the powder three times a day, 9 g each time.

(19). Inflammation in breast

Material: luffa sponge, one.

How to use: burn luffa sponge into ash. Grind it into powder. Add it into vinegar and bring to boil. Add little bit brown sugar in. Drink the vinegar extract.

(20). Bleeding due to wound

Material: luffa leaves.

How to use: dry the leaves. Grind into powder. Apply the powder onto the bleeding wound.

(21). Prickly heat (Fei zi)

Material: fresh luffa leaves.

How to use: chop the luffa leaves into mud. Apply it onto the prickly heat.

(22). Bite by snake

Material: luffa leaves, juice from luffa cane and leaves.

How to use: chop the fresh luffa leaves into mud. Apply it onto the bitten skin. At the same

(23). Mumps (Shai xian yan)

Material: luffa, one.

How to use: burn the luffa into black in color. Grind it into powder. Mix with chicken egg white. Smear onto the affected skin.

(24). Mumps

Material: luffa stems and leaves.

How to use: Chop the luffa leaves and stems to prepare juice. Smear the juice on the affected skin.

(25). Skin infection

Material: fresh luffa

How to use: chop the fresh luffa into mud or paste. Apply on to the affected skin.

(26). Urticaria  (Xun ma zhen)

How to use: the same as (24) for mumps.

(27). Ringworm (Hui chong)

Material: luffa seeds (black colored ones, peeled).

How to use: eat the seeds every day before meal, 50 grains daily. Eat less for children.

(28). Joint pain

Material: luffa sponge, 150g; liquior, 500 ml.

How to use: add luffa sponge in the liquor. Keep it for seven days. Drink the liquor everyday for several days, 30 ml each time.

(29). Lower back pain

Material: luffa seeds.

How to use: bake luffa seeds to dry. Grind it into powder. Drink it every day with addition of little cook wine.

(30). Lower back pain

Material: luffa sponge

How to use: cut luffa sponge into small pieces. Bake to yellow in color. Grind it into powder. Drink it twice everyday, with little cook wine.

(31). Lower back pain

Material: luffa cane and root.

How to use: back the material to dry. Grind into powder. Drink it everyday three times a day, 3 grams each time.

(32). Promote breast milk

Material: old luffa. Dring it naturally without exposure to sun or to bake.

How to us: Grind the dried luffa into powder. Drink the powder with little cook wine.

(33). Sore throat

Material: frost luffa, one.

How to use: cut luffa into small pieces. Add into water, bring it to boil for 30 to 60 min. Drink the water extract.

(34). Sour throat.

Material: young luffa, one.

How to use: chop the luffa. Make it into juice. Drink the juice three times a day, 20 ml each time.

(35). Ringworm

Material: luffa leaves.

How to use: chop the luffa leaves to collect juice. Smear the juice onto the affected skin, until the skin turns red in color. Repeat once every three days. Do not wash skin after smear. You can also use the juice from fresh and young luffa.

(36). Chronic cough

Material: luffa cane, 150g.

How to use: chop luffa cane into small pieces. Add it into water. Keep for one hour. Bring it to boil for more than 1 hour. Collect the water extract. Add more water to the cane and continue to cook. Collect the second extract. Pool the two extracts, continue to cook until there is about 150 ml left.  Drink it three times a day, 50 ml each time. Repeat the drinking for 10 days.

(37). Wart

Material: fresh luffa flower, 2 to 5.

How to use: mix the flower with little salt. Chop and grind into paste. Smear the paste onto the wart. Rub until the wart turns warm. Repeat everyday.