Wax gourd has diuretic, anti-inflammatory, heat-clearing and detoxicating effects, and can treat edema, beriberi and gonorrhea. It can also detoxify shrimp, sober up and lose weight. Boiling soup with winter melon skin can treat mild edema. Using wax gourd, lotus leaf and coix seed is a cool drink in hot summer.

Luffa can relieve summer heat, dispel wind and resolve phlegm, cool blood and detoxify. For those with dry stool, fresh and tender loofah can be peeled and sliced, fried and made into soup, and fresh loofah can be used to treat whooping cough, sore throat and furuncle.

Bitter gourd contains unique momordicin and bitter rosin, which has a unique bitter taste. After eating in summer, it can dispel summer heat and clear the heart, and has good curative effect on stomach heat, damp-heat dysentery, vomiting and diarrhea, and hematuria.

Cucumber can be eaten raw, cold or cooked. The fine cellulose of cucumber has a certain effect on the excretion of rotten food in intestine and lowering cholesterol. Fresh cucumber also contains malonic acid, which can inhibit the conversion of carbohydrates into fat in the body.

Papaya is beneficial to the digestion and absorption of food. Raw papaya is often used to cook fishtail soup, which is milky white in color, relieves summer heat and strengthens the stomach, and has the function of nourishing and promoting lactation.

Pumpkin Pumpkin has the effects of invigorating qi, diminishing inflammation and relieving pain, detoxicating and killing insects. External application of raw pumpkin mud juice can cure burns and scalds, and oral administration can drive ascaris. Pumpkin can promote insulin secretion in the body and effectively reduce blood sugar, which is a healthy food for diabetics.