Watermelon belongs to cucurbitaceae.

Alias cold melon, summer melon and watermelon.

Cold and sweet in nature; Into the heart, stomach and bladder.

Efficacy is mainly used for clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, quenching thirst and facilitating urination. Indications: summer heat, dysuria, sore throat, sore mouth, toothache caused by wind and fire, fever and polydipsia, urinary tract infection, hypertension, etc.

The nutrient content of watermelon pulp per 100g is 94. 1%, protein 1.2g, carbohydrate 4.2g, crude fiber 0.3mg, ash 0.2g, calcium 6mg, phosphorus 10mg and iron 0.2mg.. 0.17mg carotene, 0.02mg thiamine, 0.02mg riboflavin, 0.2mg nicotinic acid and 3mg ascorbic acid. In addition, it also contains a variety of amino acids such as citrulline, arginine, alanine, aminobutyric acid, glutamic acid, and phosphoric acid, malic acid, ethylene glycol, etc.

food therapy

1. Clearing heat and relieving summer-heat watermelon contains a lot of water, various amino acids and sugars, which can effectively replenish human body's water and prevent heatstroke due to dehydration. At the same time, watermelon can also expel excess heat from the body through diuresis, so as to achieve the effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat.

2. Supplementary nutrition Watermelon is the most abundant juice in all melons and fruits, and its juice contains almost all kinds of nutrients needed by human body. It is extremely beneficial to human health.

3. Beauty and anti-aging Watermelon juice is like a scavenger of the human body, which can eliminate the metabolites in the body, clean the kidneys and ureters, and activate the cells of the body at the same time to achieve the effect of beauty and anti-aging.

4. Help protein absorb Modern research has found that watermelon juice contains protease, which can transform insoluble protein into water-soluble protein and help the human body absorb protein.

5. Diuresis and blood pressure reduction, treatment of nephritis Citrulline and arginine in watermelon can promote the formation of urea in rat liver and lead to diuresis, and the sugar conjugate of watermelon also has diuretic and blood pressure reduction effects. Watermelon contains a small amount of salt and has a special therapeutic effect on nephritis.

6. Preventing diseases Watermelon Cui Yi (watermelon peel) is very nutritious and contains glucose and malic acid. Lycium barbarum, fructose, sucrase, protein amino acid, watermelon amino acid, lycopene and rich vitamin C have the functions of diminishing inflammation and lowering blood pressure, promoting metabolism, reducing cholesterol deposition, softening and dilating blood vessels, resisting scurvy, improving human disease resistance and preventing cardiovascular diseases.

Healthy.

7. watermelon frost, made of watermelon, has anti-inflammatory and detumescence effects. It can treat sore throat and ulcers on the mouth and tongue by blowing air on the affected area.

[Healthy diet]

1. Fresh watermelon juice 1000g, peeled and mashed with juice twice a day. It has the effects of clearing away heat, relieving summer-heat, relieving vexation and vomiting, and promoting diuresis and relaxing bowels. Suitable for fever, polydipsia, heatstroke, dizziness, thirst, nausea, dysuria, urinary tract infection, dry stool, etc.

2. Crystal sugar watermelon 1 fresh watermelon, about 3 kg, take a small mouth with a small sharp knife, take out part of the pulp, add 50 grams of crystal sugar, seal with melon skin, steam for 90 minutes, cool, eat melon juice, take 1 tablet every day for 7 days. Has the effects of clearing away heat and moistening lung, and can be used for treating cough with little phlegm and sticky phlegm.

3. Guapi Red Bean Tea Fresh watermelon Cui Yi, 50 grams of fresh winter melon skin and 30 grams of red beans. Wash the above three ingredients, put them in a crock, add 500 ml of water, fry for 20 minutes with low fire, and filter out the soup for tea 10 day. This tea set is beneficial to the swelling reduction of water. It is suitable for patients with edema caused by nephritis and cardiac insufficiency.

4. 500g of coarse eel meat, 500ml of cooked lard, 50g of fresh watermelon skin 1 each, and appropriate amount of onion and garlic. Wash the eel meat, batch it into pieces with a knife, cut it into shreds with a new knife, rinse it with clear water once, scoop up the drained water, and suck it up with dry gauze; Peel off the hard skin of watermelon, cut into pieces, mash, filter out Cui Yi juice, and add human starch to make Cui Yi juice starch for later use; Put the shredded eel into a basin, break it up with egg white, add starch, refined salt and cooking wine, and fish well; Set the pot on fire, pour in cooked lard, heat it, add shredded eel, minced garlic and chopped green onion, stir fry, remove and drain after whitening; Light the original pot with a little oil, add onion and garlic, then add shredded eel, add a little melon peel juice, cooking wine and refined salt, stir fry, thicken with starch, turn it over a few times, and pour in sesame oil. Serve. This dish has the effect of tonifying deficiency and expelling wind and dampness. It is suitable for people with chronic diseases, emaciation, rheumatoid arthritis pain and weak constitution in summer.

5. Watermelon scrambled eggs with watermelon pulp 50g (yellow is the best), 5 eggs, vegetable oil 100ml. Beat the eggs into a bowl, dice the watermelon pulp, wrap the diced watermelon pulp with clean gauze, squeeze out some water slightly, then put it into a bowl filled with eggs, add salt and mix well for later use; Heat a wok, add vegetable oil, add prepared diced eggs and melon paste, and fry until cooked. This dish has the effects of nourishing yin, moistening dryness, clearing throat and opening sound, nourishing stomach and promoting fluid production. It is suitable for yin deficiency and internal dryness. Chronic cough due to lung deficiency, sore throat, aphonia, fever and irritability, dry stomach, short and red urine, hypertension and diabetes. People with yin deficiency and dryness-heat constitution should eat it often, which is a good product for moistening dryness and health care.