nutritive value
Melon has many health benefits and high nutritional value. It contains vitamins A, B, C and minerals such as magnesium, sodium and potassium. Because it contains no cholesterol, it is safe for patients with high cholesterol in the blood.
Melon tastes good and can be eaten as dessert. It can be used as a substitute for high-calorie snacks and can help you lose weight healthily. Because it is rich in potassium, it can help control blood pressure and prevent stroke. The potassium in this fruit can reduce kidney calculi's problems.
Wax gourd is rich in plant fiber (one cup of wax gourd contains 1.3g), so it can greatly relieve constipation. The nutritional value and health care efficacy of cantaloupe have been confirmed by doctors all over the world. They think this fruit can prevent age-related bone loss.
Melon is a good source of antioxidant vitamin C. This helps to prevent heart disease and even cancer. It also contains beta-carotene. Studies have shown that the combination of β -carotene and vitamin C can prevent many chronic diseases.
Melons also provide many other health benefits. Drinking melon juice regularly is helpful to treat anorexia, hyperacidity, ulcer and urinary tract infection. It can also remove fire, which can prevent diseases related to internal heat (excessive internal heat) to a great extent. It can relieve fatigue and is an effective laxative, so it can help treat insomnia.
If you want to lose weight, this is a great fruit. It has a lot of fiber and will make you feel full. It's delicious and can be used to make salad. So the rapid weight loss plan should include cantaloupe.
In addition, cantaloupe is also good for skin care. It contains vitamin A, which helps to keep healthy skin. This fruit provides a considerable amount of folic acid, which is especially important for pregnant women. It contributes to the health of the fetus, and can even prevent cervical cancer and osteoporosis. In addition, folic acid contained in it can also be used as a mild antidepressant.
Melon has good health care function:
(1) Clearing away summer heat. Quenching thirst wax gourd contains a lot of carbohydrates, citric acid, carotene and vitamin B; , c, etc. And rich in water, it can relieve summer heat, promote fluid production to quench thirst and relieve boredom.
(2) Help patients with kidney disease absorb nutrition. Invertase contained in wax gourd can convert insoluble protein into soluble protein, which can help patients with kidney disease absorb nutrients and is beneficial to patients with kidney disease.
(3) Cucurbitacin B contained in the stem of cucurbitacin can obviously increase the accumulation of experimental hepatic glycogen and alleviate chronic liver injury, thus preventing fatty degeneration of liver cells and inhibiting fibrous hyperplasia.
(4) The stems of emetic melons contain bitter substances such as bitter toxins, cucurbitacins B and E, which can stimulate the gastric mucosa. Proper oral administration can cause vomiting, but it is not absorbed by the human body, and there are no drawbacks such as collapse and poisoning.
(5) Modern insect control research has found that melon seeds can drive away roundworms and filariasis, and can be widely used to treat insect diseases.
(6) Nutritive winter melon cooked meat contains protein, fat, carbohydrates, inorganic salts, etc. It can supplement the energy and nutrition needed by the human body and help the body recover. Functional taste of dietotherapy: melon is sweet, cold and non-toxic; Melon is bitter, cold and poisonous. Meridian tropism: entering the stomach, lungs and large intestine. Efficacy: wax gourd can clear away heat, relieve summer heat and quench thirst; Melon seeds can clear away heat, detoxify and induce diuresis, and melon stalks can induce phlegm and toxic food in the chest and diaphragm, or be used as external medicine. Indications: winter melon cures summer heat and polydipsia; Melon seeds treat intestinal carbuncle and lung carbuncle; Melon pedicels are externally used to treat acute icteric infectious hepatitis, rhinitis and sarcoidosis in the nose.
Prescription reference:
1, wax gourd washed and eaten at will can relieve summer heat.
2, 30 grams of fragrant melon seeds, add appropriate amount of sugar, mash and grind, warm water to take, cure intestinal carbuncle and lung carbuncle.
3, fragrant melon seeds 15g, stir-fried whole angelica 30g, snake slough 3g, dried and ground into powder, each time 10g, three times a day, to treat intestinal carbuncle (appendicitis).
4, melon leaves are mashed and applied to the affected area to treat tinea capitis.
5, muskmelon pedicle burning, grinding into powder, can also be used with asarum powder, take a little and blow it into the nose three times a day to treat chronic hypertrophic rhinitis and nasal cavity.
6. Dry and grind the cantaloupe pedicels and divide them into three parts, each time 0.1g.. First, inhale deeply from two nostrils with one part. After about 40 minutes, clean the nasal cavity, then inhale another part, and then finish the last part every 40 minutes. After seven days, 0. 1 g was also inhaled, and 0.4 g was a course of treatment to treat jaundice or jaundice-free infectious hepatitis and liver cirrhosis. Generally, chronic hepatitis can be treated for two courses; If it's cirrhosis, it takes three to five courses of treatment. After taking the medicine, a large amount of yellow water flows out of the nasal cavity, which can reach 100 ml each time. When taking medicine, the patient's head must lean forward to make yellow water drip out, and don't swallow it to avoid diarrhea. Sometimes there will be headache, chills, fever, cold-like symptoms, or aggravation of liver and spleen pain, and such symptoms will naturally disappear after one day.
Health experts warn that eating cantaloupe also has its taboos. It should be noted that bitter gourd and watermelon should not be eaten with cantaloupe, and cantaloupe should not be eaten with durian. The two are compatible and cannot achieve their respective effects. There are bleeding and physical weakness, spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, abdominal distension and loose stool. It is best not to eat them.