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Bottle Gourd -- The Wonder Vegetable That You Might Not Have Heard About
Bottle gourd (also known as bottle squash or calabash gourd) has recently received worldwide recognition for its many health benefits. It can improve liver and nervous system function, as well as restore urinary, respiratory and digestive tract health.
Yoga guru Baba Ramdev praises the bottle gourd. He highlights the advantages and usefulness of the bottle gourd in his speeches and yoga sessions.
The gourd has a bitter taste, which might deter young children, but older people often take it to maintain good health. Bottle gourd can be consumed in cooked vegetables, juices and sweets.
Benefits of Bottle Gourd
- Its low fat and cholesterol content make it a light, low-calorie addition to any diet.
- Its high fiber content helps reduce constipation.
- The bottle gourd comprises 96 percent water, which makes it ideal for quenching thirst.
- It also provides multiple vitamins and minerals including iron, sodium, potassium and trace elements.
- When the liver is unable to filter nutrients properly, the bottle gourd can help restore liver health. Its sodium content helps balance liver function. Its thirst-quenching and fatigue-fighting properties also assist proper liver function.
- Bottle gourd also fights urinary tract infections. The alkaline in it counteracts acidity associated with urinary tract infections, and relieves pain while passing urine. The bottle gourd is even believed to break down calculus or stones in the urinary system.
- It is often used as a remedy for premature baldness and graying. Juice from the bottle gourd's leaves can prevent and cure balding and jaundice.
- Bottle gourd can relieve symptoms of asthma and bronchitis, and also reduce headaches.
- Its benefits for the nervous system include treatment of such disorders as insanity and epilepsy.
Try some bottle gourd and gain from its many health benefits. The bitter flavor can be easily masked by mixing it into foods that you already eat. Bottle gourd is an excellent way to supplement your diet as well as fend off and treat disease.
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