Suitable: the summer climate is hot, upset and irritable, and it is uncomfortable to eat heat; People with fever, dry mouth, polydipsia and dysuria should eat it.

Bogey: cool melon, spleen and stomach qi deficiency, diarrhea loose stool, stomach cold pain should not eat cool melon; During women's menstrual cramps and cold dysmenorrhea, it is not appropriate to eat white melons raw.

Effect of wax gourd

1, hypoglycemic and antihypertensive effects Because wax gourd contains more Vc, higher potassium and lower sodium, it is most suitable for patients who need low-sodium food such as hypertension, nephropathy and edema. Tao Jinghong, a medical scientist in the Southern Dynasties, said that wax gourd "detoxifies, quenches thirst, stops annoyance, and is taken with raw juice". The diabetes mentioned is diabetes. 20 cases of pregnancy-induced hypertension syndrome were treated with fresh winter melon peel decoction instead of tea, and satisfactory results were obtained. The pulp juice of wax gourd and the decoction of wax gourd seeds are effective in treating diabetes and thirst.

2. Kidney-protecting wax gourd juice and wax gourd extract can increase the urine volume of animals, reduce the degree of nephropathy caused by mercury chloride, and significantly reduce the content of serum myotoxicity. Pathohistology showed that the total amino acids (high dose) of wax gourd and cucurbitacin had obvious protective and blocking effects on mercury-induced renal injury. The functional food "Jianshenling" oral liquid, which is made of wax gourd extract as the main raw material, medlar, Poria and other raw materials with the functions of invigorating spleen and kidney, clearing heat and diuresis, can obviously increase urine output, reduce the contents of serum urea nitrogen and lipid peroxide in main organs, improve SOD activity, regulate immune function, improve clinical symptoms and protect renal function. Folk uses the skin of winter melon, broad bean and water to decoct and take water, which can treat kidney disease and edema of heart disease. Boiled soup of wax gourd and carp can treat chronic nephritis.

3, weight loss and lipid-lowering effect The ancients all know that wax gourd has weight loss function. For example, in the Tang Dynasty, Meng Wan's Herbs of Dietotherapy said: "Those who are hot eat it, those who are cold eat it, and those who are thin eat it. Cooked food practices the five internal organs, but also because of its qi. " In addition, according to Compendium of Materia Medica, wax gourd can benefit qi and relieve annoyance. "If you want to be thin and light, you can eat it often. If you want to be fat, don't eat it."

4, the beauty effect of melon melon also has a good beauty function. For example, the book "The Holy Records" in the Tang Dynasty introduced the ancient method of making facial fat with wax gourd for beauty. In addition, according to Compendium of Materia Medica, wax gourd is white and soft. When you wash your face and body with it, you can remove brown spots and make your skin soft, smooth and white. "Shennong Herbal Classic" records that winter melon seeds can make people "bright"; Daming Herbal Medicine says that it can cure skin inflammation and make skin moist. Winter melon seeds are commonly used in ancient flour fat.

5. In order to protect the liver, 8 patients with HBeAg positive hepatitis B were treated with traditional Chinese medicine Angelica sinensis and winter melon seeds combined with low dose hepatitis B vaccine. After three months of treatment, the negative conversion rate of HBeAg (ELisas) reached 62.5%, and alanine aminotransferase completely returned to normal 75%.

Efficacy of mung bean

1. Antibacterial and bacteriostatic effects

Mung beans have antibacterial and bacteriostatic effects. ① Some components in mung bean have direct bacteriostatic effect. The bacteriostatic test confirmed that the extract of mung bean coat had inhibitory effect on staphylococcus. According to related research, tannin contained in mung bean can coagulate microbial protoplasm and produce antibacterial activity. Bioactive substances such as flavonoids and phytosterols in mung beans may also have certain antibacterial and antiviral effects. (2) indirectly exert antibacterial effect by improving immune function. Mung bean contains coumarin, alkaloids, phytosterols, saponins and other bioactive substances, which can enhance the immune function of the body and increase the number of phagocytic cells or phagocytic function. In some experiments, the effect of mung bean on erythrocyte immune adhesion function in normal and cyclophosphamide-induced immunocompromised mice was detected by complement sensitized yeast hemagglutination method. The results showed that mung bean had inhibitory effect on immunocompromised mice induced by cyclophosphamide

2. Hypolipidemic effect

Some people feed rabbits with 70% mung bean powder or germinated mung bean powder. The results show that it can prevent the increase of blood lipid (total cholesterol and β-lipoprotein) in experimental hyperlipidemia rabbits, and then obviously alleviate coronary heart disease; Some people mixed the water extract and alcohol extract of mung bean in feed and fed them to animals for 7 days, which proved that it could obviously reduce the serum cholesterol of normal mice (crude drug 100g/kg d- 1) and normal rats (crude drug 16g/kg d- 1). Further research found that the structure of phytosterol contained in mung bean is similar to cholesterol, and phytosterol competes with cholesterol for esterifying enzyme, which makes it impossible to esterify, reduces the absorption of cholesterol in intestine, and can reduce the serum cholesterol content by promoting cholesterol alienation and/or preventing liver cholesterol biosynthesis. In addition, soybean globulin has been proved to have the effect of lowering serum cholesterol, and whether mung bean globulin has the same effect is worth discussing.

3. Antitumor effect

Some experiments have found that mung beans have a certain preventive effect on lung cancer and liver cancer induced by morphine and sodium nitrite in mice. Another experiment confirmed that phenylalanine ammonia-lyase extracted from mung bean had obvious inhibitory effect on mouse leukemia L 1 2 1 cells and human leukemia K 56 2 cells, and the inhibitory effect was obviously enhanced with the increase of enzyme dosage and the extension of action time. After the same treatment for 48 hours, the inhibition rates of 0.7U/ml enzyme were 52% and 14. 1%, respectively. When the enzyme was increased to 3.5U/ml, it could reach 77. 1% and 5.8% respectively, while the inhibition rates of 0.2 0%, 1.0%, 2.0%, 4.0%, 6.0% and 1.0% were 25.0 respectively.

Step 4 detoxify

Mung beans are rich in protein, and raw green soybean milk soaked in raw mung beans has a high protein content, which can protect gastrointestinal mucosa if taken orally. Mung bean protein, tannins and flavonoids can combine with organophosphorus pesticides, mercury, arsenic and lead compounds to form a precipitate, which reduces or loses toxicity and is not easily absorbed by the gastrointestinal tract. Many bioactive substances in mung beans have antioxidant effects, and whether antioxidant effects can reduce the cytotoxicity and genotoxicity of organophosphorus pesticides in the treatment of organophosphorus pesticide poisoning needs further discussion.

5. Others

Sweating at high temperature will make the body lose a lot of minerals and vitamins, leading to internal environment disorder. Mung beans are rich in inorganic salts and vitamins. Drinking mung bean soup in high temperature environment can replenish the lost nutrients in time and achieve the therapeutic effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat.

Phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylserine and phosphatidic acid in mung bean phospholipids can stimulate appetite.

Mung bean starch contains a considerable amount of oligosaccharides (pentosan, galactan, etc. These oligosaccharides are difficult to be digested and absorbed because there is no corresponding hydrolase system in the gastrointestinal tract of human body, so the energy provided by mung beans is lower than that of other grains, which has an auxiliary therapeutic effect on obese and diabetic patients. Moreover, oligosaccharides are the proliferation factors of Bifidobacterium, a beneficial bacteria in human intestine. Regular consumption of mung beans can improve intestinal flora, reduce the absorption of harmful substances and prevent some cancers.

Mung bean is also a good raw material for extracting SOD from plants. After chemical modification, SOD oral liquid made of mung bean will not be destroyed by gastric acid and pepsin, and its half-life will be prolonged, which is suitable for oral absorption by human body. Besides SOD, the oral liquid is rich in amino acids, β-carotene and trace elements, and has good anti-aging effect. In addition, experiments have proved that tannins in mung beans not only have antibacterial activity, but also have the effects of local hemostasis and promoting wound repair, so they have certain therapeutic effects on various burns.

CoCo Lee, "Overview of Studies on Chemical Constituents and Pharmacological Effects of Mung Bean", Shanghai Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine 200 1.5 47-49.

Winter melon and mung bean soup

Raw materials: 200g wax gourd, mung bean100g. Accessories: ginger slice 10g, onion 30g, salt 3g. Exercise 1. Peel the wax gourd, remove the pulp, wash it, and cut it into 3 cm square pieces; Wash mung beans for later use. 2. Put the pot on fire, add appropriate amount of water, add onion, ginger and mung bean, bring to a boil over high heat, turn to medium heat and cook until the beans are soft, add the sliced wax gourd, cook until the wax gourd slices are soft but not rotten, sprinkle with salt and stir well.