The bottle gourd is one of the most popular and most commonly consumed vegetables in India. What makes it more popular is the fact that it is easily digestible and is extremely good for health. The bottle gourd is really good for health. It is not only nutritious, but is also a wonderful cooling vegetable that can really help you fight the hot summer months. Bottle gourd has gained quite a bit of popularity these days because of various reasons. The most important for girls and women is that it helps in weight loss and brings glow to the skin.
Bottle Gourd Features:
- Bottle gourd reduces hunger pangs as it is full of fiber and water
- If one is suffering from high acidity or burning sensation then by drinking the juice one can combat the problem
- Problems like diarrhea can be solved by drinking its juice
- Juice of bottle gourd helps in breaking calculus (stone) in the body.
- It can improve liver and nervous system function, and it can restore urinary, respiratory, and digestive tract health
- Bottle gourd’;s benefits on the nervous system include treatment of such disorders as insanity and epilepsy
- It can bring back the lost glow of the skin or enhance the color of the skin as well.
- Drinking bottle gourd juice with salt keeps one refreshed and cool during summer.
- If you are suffering from any digestive problem or if one is diabetic then bottle gourd juice can help the diseased person
- Dietary fiber present in the bottle gourd helps in constipation, flatulence and even piles
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Bottle Gourd Juice has a lot of health benefits such as:
- Drinking a glass of bottle gourd juice in the morning helps in treating grey hair.
- Mixing the juice with sesame oil provides an effective medicine for insomnia. Massage the scalp with this preparation every night.
- Bottle gourd juice is very helpful in treating insanity, epilepsy, stomach acidity, indigestion, ulcers and other nervous disease.
- The bitter variety of calabash gourd is considered as a cardiac tonic, an antidote for poisoning and a tonic for alleviating bronchitis, cough, asthma, and biligenic infection
- A glass of bottle gourd juice, mixed with a little salt, helps in preventing excessive loss of sodium from the body.
- Bottle Gourd Juice acts as an alkaline mixture which relieves burning sensation in the urinary passage
- The juice extracted from the leaves of bottle gourd is beneficial in jaundice.