Winter melon can be used as medicine all over the body. Watermelon peel is used for diuresis, detumescence, clearing away heat and relieving summer-heat. It is often used for edema, physical weakness and edema, and can also be used for breastfeeding. Winter melon seeds have the functions of clearing away lung heat, resolving phlegm, promoting diuresis and expelling pus, and are suitable for cough due to lung heat, lung abscess (lung abscess), intestinal abscess (appendicitis) and so on. ), leucorrhea, etc. Wax gourd meat has the effects of nourishing water, clearing away heat, resolving phlegm and detoxicating, and can be used to treat edema, cough and asthma, summer heat, thirst quenching, diarrhea, hemorrhoids, leakage, alcoholism, fish poisoning, etc.
Pharmacological study on wax gourd
Wax gourd has low sodium content, so it has obvious diuretic effect, which can prevent carbohydrates from transforming into fat, reduce water and sodium retention and consume body fat. Very suitable for people with kidney and edema.
Winter melon medicated diet
1, wax gourd and grass carp soup: 500g wax gourd and 250g grass carp (fish tail is better). First, gut grass carp, wash it, fry it until golden brown, then add appropriate amount of water with wax gourd, stew it for about 3-4 hours, and finally add a little salt to taste. This is a folk prescription for headache and dizziness.
2. Stewed duck with melon and lotus leaf: 200 grams of melon, 3 small pieces of tender lotus leaf, 25 grams of barley and red beans, and 250 grams of duck meat. Wash duck meat and cut into pieces; Cut wax gourd with skin into large pieces; Wash the tender lotus leaves; Soak coix seed and adzuki bean, and wash.
Put all the ingredients in a saucepan, add a bowl of half boiled water, cover the saucepan and stew in water. Stew it with strong fire first, then with medium fire for 50 minutes, and then with low fire. After stewing, add proper amount of oil, salt and monosodium glutamate to serve. This diet moistens the lung and nourishes the kidney, clearing away heat and toxic materials, and is mainly used to treat chronic nephritis with oliguria and edema.
3, winter melon skin hypoglycemic drink: 20 grams of winter melon skin, watermelon skin, cogongrass rhizome, corn stigma 15 grams, 90 grams of red beans. Put the above materials into a pot and fry them into soup, with a dose of/kloc-0 per day and three times. The beverage has the effects of clearing away heat, quenching thirst and promoting diuresis, and is suitable for quenching thirst and persuading alcohol caused by summer heat, body fluid injury and lung and stomach dryness.
4, melon crystal sugar pear: melon meat, winter melon seeds, Fritillaria 5 ~ 10 tablets, Sydney pieces, crystal sugar right amount, stew together for about half an hour to eat. Wax gourd meat and Sydney are edible, and soup is drinkable. This kind of rice is often used by people with cough and phlegm, and it is often used at home.
Health experience prescription
Winter melon drink: 1 winter melon (divided into 12 tablets), 60 grams of Ophiopogon japonicus and 45 grams of Coptis chinensis. The latter two flavors are mixed and divided into 12 portions, and each piece of white gourd is added with medicine 1 portion, one dose per day, and decocted with water. This prescription treats thirst, thirst, excessive drinking day and night, and fever all over.