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Vegetable - Bottle Gourd - Allergies

Bottle Gourd

1. Side effects :While Cutting bottle gourd , wearing gloves is preferred.
2. Warning : Even though, bottle gourd is really good for your health, it can sometimes be bad. Bottle gourd juice that tastes bitter can seriously damage your digestive health.

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Vegetable - Bottle Gourd - Other tips

Bottle Gourd

1. Selection :Avoid those with oversize, mature, yellow-discoloration, cuts and bruise on their surface. Tiny spots on the surface, however, would not lessen their quality.
2. Storage :At home, store them inside the refrigerator set at adequate humidity where they stay fresh for 3-4 days.

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Bottle Gourd

1. Hair care :1/4 glass of bottle gourd juice ,every day, will reduce the baldness of hair.
2. Weight loss :Having the juice ,you will definitely enjoy the weight loss.

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Vegetable - Bottle Gourd - Nutrition Facts

Bottle Gourd

Vitamins	Vitamins such as vitamin-C and some of B-vitamin traces are available.
Minerals	It is rich in minerals such as thiamine, zinc, iron and magnesium .

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Vegetable - Bottle Gourd - Health Benefits

Bottle Gourd

1. Acts as a nerve tonic :Indian traditional medicine claims that bottle gourd acts as a nerve tonic and can help improve obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). This claim has been confirmed by a study published in the journal Pharmacognosy Research where the investigators found that the plant possesses anti-compulsive (anti-OCD) activity although they are not certain about the mechanism of action of this plant.
2. Balancing Liver Function :Bottle gourd is believed to help the liver function in a balanced fashion.
3. Reduces stress : It is quite easy to feel stressed in today’s times, and unhealthy eating can only worsen the situation. Bottle gourd has a high water content has a cooling effect on your body which makes you feel better the very moment you take it. It also has diuretic, sedative and antibilious properties which makes your body feel better internally, and keeps stress at bay.
4. Cooling effect : Bottle gourd has cooling and calming ability due to its good water content. It is absolutely helpful during summers and specially those who work under the hot sun as it has the ability to prevent heat strokes and recovers the water lost due to perspiration.It can be consumed in a juice form or cooked as a veggie.
5. Cures Jaundice :The juice from the leaves help cure jaundice and the juice from the gourd helps reduce greying of hair.
6. Helps to treat urinary disorders :Bottle gourd has a cooling effect on your body, and a glass of bottle gourd juice is a great diuretic that can be used to treat burning sensation while passing urine. This burning sensation is caused due to high levels of acid in the urine, which can be countered by the alkaline nature of bottle gourd juice.
7. Prevents heart disease :Unhealthy lifestyles are leading to several cases of heart disease in urban India. So much so that, 70% of the urban population is at risk of heart disease due to wrong lifestyle choices like eating fried and processed foods, smoking, etc. Like a lot of fruits and vegetables, bottle gourd has zero cholesterol and is rich in Vitamins like Vitamin C and antioxidants making it good for your heart.
8. Fights Constipation :It helps fight constipation, as it is fiber rich. Because of its fiber and low fat content, Ayurveda highly recommends this food for diabetic patients and young children.
9. Bottle Gourd juice :Ayurveda also recommends the juice of this gourd in the treatment of acidity, indigestion and ulcers as it serves as an alkaline mixture.
10. weight loss :Bottle gourd is also considered one of the best weight loss foods since it is 96 percent water and provides just 12 calories per 100g of serving.
11. Prevents tooth decay :The juice from bottle gourd leaf helps in curing baldness and aids in preventing tooth decay.
12. Diabetes :he juice of bottle gourd is a valuable medicine for excessive thirst due to severe diarrhoea, diabetes and excessive use of fatty or fried foods.
13. Preventing digestive disorders :Bottle gourd is not only rich in essential minerals, iron, protein and trace elements; it is also rich in fibre. Fibre helps in preventing constipation and other digestive disorders like flatulence and piles.
14. Serves as an Alkaline mixture :Bottle gourd is very valuable in urinary disorders. It should be given once daily in the treatment of burning sensation in urinary passage due to high acidity of urine. It serves as an alkaline mixture.
15. Prevents Fatigue :Bottle Gourd prevents excessive loss of sodium, quenches thirst and helps in preventing fatigue.

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Vegetable - Bottle Gourd

Bottle Gourd

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About the Vegetable :Bottle Gourd is a vine grown for its fruit, which can either be harvested young and used as a vegetable, or harvested mature, dried, and used as a bottle, utensil, or pipe. The fresh fruit has a light green smooth skin and a white flesh. Rounder varieties are called calabash gourds. They come in a variety of shapes: they can be huge and rounded, small and bottle shaped, or slim and serpentine, more than a metre long.The gourd was one of the first cultivated plants in the world, grown not primarily for food, but for use as a water container. The bottle gourd may have been carried from Africa to Asia, Europe and the Americas in the course of human migration, or by seeds floating across the oceans inside the gourd.Nowadays bottle gourd is grown by direct sowing of seeds or transplanting 15 to 20 days old seedlings. Prefers a well-drained moist good rich soil. It requires plenty of moisture in the growing season and prefers a warm sunny position sheltered from the wind. If it is cultivated in a small place you can grow it in a pot, spread the vine on trellis or roof. In rural areas many houses with thatched roof are found covered with the gourd vines. Bottle gourds grow very rapidly.

Scientific / Binomial name : Lagenaria siceraria

Popularly Known as :Calabash,Opo squash, long melon

Usage :

• Chutney's, stir-fries or in a soup and making of Musical Instruments
• Calabash is used in many string instruments in India as a resonator. Instruments that look like guitars are made of wood but they can have a calabash resonator at the end of the strings table called toomba. The sitar, the surbahar, the tanpura (south of India, tambura north of India), may have a toomba. In some cases the toomba may not be functional but if the instrument is large it keeps its place because of its balance function.In Brazil, gourds also commonly used as the resonator for the berimbau, the signature instrument of capoeira, a martial art/dance developed in Brazilian plantations by African slaves. The calabash gourd is possibly mankind's oldest instrument resonator.Hollowed out and dried calabashes are a very typical utensil in households across West Africa.