Vata and Pitta must consume cooked lauki or bottle gourd. Ifyou are kapha use thermogenic spices like ginger, cayenne or drink the lauki orbottle gourd juice for weight loss.Ayurveda recommends Lauki cooked pumpkin orbottle for better digestion. It is cooling, soothing, diuretic and anti-bilious.

Like blueberries, bottle gourd or lauki supports theurinary system of our body by reducing the burning of high urinate acid. Italso reduces the chances of UTI because it is alkalizing and has a diureticeffect.

It contains many vitamins and minerals, such as calcium,magnesium, phosphorus, vitamin A, C and folic acid.