According to traditional Chinese medical science, most of the vegetables that taste bitter can relieve internal heat. Therefore
nutritionists suggest that people should eat, often, bitter.vegetables, such as sowthistles and bitter gourds. Such foods can help
relieve summer heat, eliminate fatigue, and harmonize the spleens and stomach. Bitter gourds, in particular, can be served as
medicine. These gourds are widely believed to improve blood circulation, prevent stasis gastroenteritis and dysentery.
