Bottle gourd is a climbing vine grown vegetable. I can be harvested young as a vegetable. Allow it to get mature, dry it and used as bottle, utensils etc. Bottle gourd can be taken as vegetables or juice. It is known for various health benefits. It comes in numbers of shape and size like, large, small, round or long.
Some of the health benefits of bottle gourd are,
1. Curses Constipation
Bottle gourd is rich in fibre and is easy to digest thus helps in curing constipation and piles.
2. Helps weight loss
In 100 grams contains 15 calories and is low in saturated fats and cholesterol. The dietary fibres promotes weight loss.
3. Thirst quencher
It contains approximately 96% of water. This prevents the body fatigue and also helps thirst quencher.
4. Protect against kidney stones/ urinary infection.
The loss of fluids can cause kidney stones fluids and induce or aggravate urinary infections. Add to your diet to break calculus or stones in the body and serve as an alkaline mixture to treat infections. It also helps in relieving liver inflammation.
5. Keeps heart healthy.
Consuming a boiled daily helps in lowering blood cholesterol levels, thus keeps the heart healthy.
6. Relieve stress
Bottle gourd is rich in choline that improves the functioning of the brain and thus prevents stress and depression too.
7. Regulate blood pressure
It contain sodium, potassium and other minerals. Having it as a dish or juice helps to regulate blood pressure.
8. Control diabetes
Bottle gourd has a negligible amount of glucose and sugar related compound. Thus it is known as a wonder food for the diabetes.
9. Boosts liver
It is believe that bottle gourd is well known for the smooth functioning of liver.
10. Regulate sleeps
Massaging scalp with bottle gourd juice and sesame oil mixture is an effective remedy for insomnia.
11. Curse asthma
Having bottle gourd on a daily basis also helps cure bronchitis, cough and asthma infection.
12. Cures jaundice
It is an effective way to enhance the metabolism of the body of those suffering from jaundice according to the medical science and ayurveda.
13. Replace sodium content
It helps the body in preventing excessive loss of sodium from the body, especially for the athlete.
14. Anti-oxidative
Apart from the iron content it is also rich in vitamin B and C, and helps in anti-oxidative actions.