苦瓜探源苦瓜由于味苦而得名,因其瓜皮上有小疙瘩突起,形似荔枝的皮,故又名“锦荔枝”。此外,还有癞瓜、癞葡萄之名,皆象形而来。苦瓜的原产地并非我国,李时珍在《本草纲目》中记载“苦瓜原出南番,今闽广皆种之”,当时的南番,即为现在的印度半岛。近人杨荫深编著的《事物掌故丛谈》中说“此瓜(苦瓜)古未闻”,而明朝费信在《星槎胜览·苏门答腊国》中云“其有一等瓜,皮若荔枝,如瓜大。未剖之时,其臭如烂蒜;剖开如囊,味如酥油,香甜可口”,可能说的就是苦瓜。对于苦瓜的“瓤味甘”,李时珍也记载“……熟则黄自裂,内在红 Bitter gourd bitter gourd due to the bitter taste because of its small lump on the melon skin, shaped like a litchi skin, it is also known as “Kam litchi.” In addition, there is a gourd, 癞 grapes in the name of all pictographic come. Bitter melon is not the origin of our country, Li Shizhen in the “Compendium of Materia Medica” records “bitter melon original South Fan, today Fujian and all kinds of”, then the South Fan, is now the Indian Peninsula. In recent years, Yang Yinshen, who edited The Thing of Things, said that “this melon (bitter gourd) is unheard of,” while the Ming Dynasty Fei Shixin in the “ Such as melons large. Not cut when the smelly, such as rotten garlic; cut open, such as capsules, such as butter, sweet and delicious, ”may be said that bitter melon. For the bitter gourd, “sweet taste,” Li Shizhen also records "... cooked yellow split since the inherent red