Do you know that consuming bottle gourd or lauki could give you these superb benefits?
Posted on: 25/Aug/2021 9:34:47 AM
Also known by various other names like white flowered gourd, calabash, New Guinea bean, long melon etc, bottle gourd or lauki is an amazing green vegetable. Fact is that bottle gourd could either be harvested young to be consumed as a vegetable or harvested mature to be dried and used as an utensil. In countries like Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India, Malaysia etc, bottle gourd is cultivated in the humid climatic conditions.
Various shapes in which bottle gourds are found are round and huge, small and bottle shaped, slim and serpentine etc. They belong to the family named Cucurbitaceae. Bottle gourd has many important ingredients like fibres, iron, sodium, potassium and vitamins etc.
By including bottle gourd in the diet, we could get these fabulous health benefits. These are
Reduces stress:
Many have stress issues these days. It is believed that intake of lauki on a daily basis would reduce the stress in us. Our body would be cool by consuming bottle gourd with water content.
Good for heart:
By managing the blood pressure effectively, bottle gourd would increase the health of the heart. Intake of lauki juice twice or thrice per week would be superb for our heart health to be good.
Helps in weight loss:
Having excess weight could lead to many health problems and it is necessary to lose weight. Truth is that consuming lauki juice would help in weight loss.
For sound sleep:
Good sound sleep is necessary for our health and the fact is that many of us do not get sound sleep at night. Intake of bottle gourd could provide a solution to the sleep disorders.
Prevents premature greying of hairs:
Many youngsters get grey hairs and face lots of humiliation from others. The climate changes plus eating habits have been responsible for this issue. The hair texture could be maintained well plus premature greying of hairs could be avoided easily by intake of bottle gourd juice.
Good for digestion:
By consuming lauki or bottle gourd, we could have good digestion and this would be due to the presence of fibre content in the bottle gourd.
Balances liver function:
Balancing the liver function is important and Ayurveda doctors recommend bottle gourd for that. The inflammation of the liver gets reduced by intake of bottle gourd and food would be processed well and effectively.
Treats jaundice:
It is believed that the juice extracted from the leaves of bottle gourd could treat jaundice.
