In summer, the weather is hot, urine is not smooth, and there is a slight tingling. You can take it in soup with wax gourd, which can induce diuresis and relieve summer heat. Where there is damp heat, you can drink it with winter melon skin and sugar, which is conducive to dampness and heat. Pregnant women often eat wax gourd, which can make the baby less sick.

Suffering from kidney inflammation, heart disease, liver cirrhosis, frequent dysuria, leading to edema. At this time, winter melon can be used as an auxiliary diet food, and winter melon soup can be used instead of tea, which can not only induce diuresis and reduce swelling, but also has no side effects.

Ji Zong of the Song Dynasty recorded a pilgrimage: "Winter melon slakes thirst (slakes thirst)" Marin recorded a cure without medicine: "Peel winter melon, eat two ounces after meals to cure thirst". Another prescription is: "The skin of winter melon and watermelon is five yuan each, and it is taken with water to treat diabetes." In Shennong's classic of materia medica, wax gourd is listed as the top grade, saying, "It is pleasing to the eye, looks good, benefits qi and is not hungry, and long-term service makes people strong and resist aging." That is, wax gourd has the function of beauty and health care. Meng Wei said: "If you want to be thin and healthy, you can eat melons for a long time. Don't eat if you want to be fat. " "Wax gourd can remove oil from the body, and long-term consumption will make people thin. Winter melon seeds can nourish the liver and improve eyesight, moisturize the skin and make people white as jade. Winter melon seeds can treat enteritis, which is quite effective. Wax gourd processed food, such as wax gourd leaves, wax gourd candy, wax gourd sauce, etc. , very popular with consumers. Winter melon tea, in particular, has the effects of cooling, annealing and diuresis, and is the best mass drink for relieving summer heat.

Wax gourd contains a lot of water. Other nutrients include protein, sugar, vitamins B and C, and minerals include calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium and sodium. According to the records of Chinese medicine, wax gourd is sweet and cold, and has the effects of diuresis, detumescence, dryness and dampness, and purging heat. In the hot summer in Taiwan Province Province, after sweating a lot, it often leads to loss of appetite, dry mouth and chest tightness.

Wax gourd has the function of slimming and beautifying. In Tang Dynasty, Meng Xi explained the weight-reducing effect of wax gourd in Materia Medica for Dietotherapy, saying: "Those who are hot eat it, those who are cold eat it, those who are thin eat it, and cooked food practices the five internal organs, so they are depressed." You can eat for a long time if you want to be thin and healthy, but don't eat if you want to be fat. To put it in vernacular Chinese, winter melon should be eaten hot, and cold eating will make people thin. Cooking is beneficial to the five internal organs, and the stagnant things in the five internal organs will be metabolized with the qi of the body. If you want to be light and healthy, you can eat it often. If you want to make yourself fat, don't eat it. At the same time as Meng Xi, the table of Shengji Zonglu introduced the ancient method of making facial fat beauty with wax gourd, that is, peeling off the rough appearance of wax gourd, cutting the meat into pieces, adding appropriate amount of water and wine to boil, filtering out coarse residue, frying it into a paste with slow fire, and applying it to the face every night. Even dark skin can turn white again after long-term use.

Wax gourd can turn the waste in the body into urine and then excrete it quickly. People who sweat a lot, are prone to fatigue, have rough skin, are not easy to put on makeup, and are prone to acne, just eat more melon.

Wax gourd is sweet and slightly cold, which is a daily food for relieving fever and diuresis. In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Tao Hongjing recorded that "wax gourd facilitates urination and cures abdominal edema", and Tang Menggu's dietotherapy herbal medicine said: "Invigorate qi and resist aging, except chest tightness and head and face fever". The new materia medica says: "clearing fire, purging spleen fire, removing dampness and expelling wind, reducing swelling and quenching thirst, relieving summer heat." Its seeds, skins, meat and pulp can be used as medicine. Wax gourd contains a lot of vitamin B and a lot of plant fiber, which is good for the stomach. You can be vegetarian. In coastal areas, winter melon and seafood are cooked together, which tastes very sweet.

Spot removal of wax gourd pulp

Winter melon pulp and winter melon seeds are also good cosmetic raw materials. Compendium of Materia Medica records: "The flesh of winter melon is white and soft. Wash your face and body with it, which can remove the spots on your skin and make your skin soft, smooth and fair. Winter melon seeds have a pleasant color, which can make the skin smooth, look pleasing, light and healthy, and delay aging. " Japanese and Chinese school's materia medica "contains winter melon seeds" to remove dark spots and moisturize skin. It means that winter melon seeds "remove dark spots and moisturize the skin", which means that winter melon seeds can eliminate harmful infections and dark spots on the skin. Dietotherapy Materia Medica also commented on two beauty methods of winter melon seeds:

1. Put the wax gourd in a bag sewn with silk, put it in boiling water, cook it slightly, and take it out to dry. Make it three times, then soak it in bitter wine for two nights, then dry it and grind it into powder, and take it with a spoonful every day, which can whiten the eyes, improve eyesight and prolong life.

2. Shell the winter melon seeds, grind them into powder and make them into pills. Eating 30 pills a day can make people as white as jade.

Watermelon peel diuresis

3. Mix winter melon seeds, peach blossoms and poplar bark into powder in proportion, take one spoonful each time, three times a day (after elbow), and take it with warm water after meals. If you want to improve your complexion, increase the proportion of winter melon seeds; If you want to enhance your ruddy complexion, you should increase the proportion of peach blossoms. After taking it for one month, your complexion will be like peaches and plums. In 50 days, your hands and feet will be like peaches and plums. If there is no poplar bark, orange peel can be used without affecting the magical effect of beauty.

In addition to the pulp, pulp and melon seeds, even the skin and vines have cosmetic effects. Su Song, the author of Illustrated Materia Medica in the Song Dynasty, and the author of Materia Medica of Japanese and Chinese Philosophers said that the former used the skin of wax gourd as face fat; The latter has a unique opinion and formula for burning wax gourd vines to remove ink marks on the face, and decoction can wash ink spots and boils.

Wax gourd is full of treasures, and its wonderful use is endless. Here are some simple and practical remedies for readers to quote:

First, heatstroke and polydipsia: fresh melons are mashed and juiced, and they are drunk in large quantities.

Second, whooping cough or bronchitis, severe cough: five yuan for winter melon seeds, add appropriate amount of brown sugar, mash and grind, and take it with water twice a day.

Third, cough: one or two winter melon seeds, one side of water tofu, two or two crystal sugar, water decoction.

Fourth, heart disease: two or three pairs of winter melon skins, boiled soup to drink.

Five, carbuncle back desire: wax gourd cut into pieces and applied to the sore surface, wax gourd paste can be replaced, once the sore surface converges, the plaster will heal.

Six, eat shrimp and crab and unclean seafood poisoning: fresh melon mashed juice, drink a lot.

Thirsty, drink more urine diabetes: one or two pieces of wax gourd and Ophiopogon japonicus each, and San Qian, Rhizoma Coptidis, decocted in water twice a day, has a good effect.

Wax gourd peel is a good diuretic. Melon seeds are suitable for visceral abscess, such as appendix abscess and lung abscess. In addition to expectorant and antitussive effects. Convenient prescription:

1. Heatstroke and polydipsia: Fresh wax gourd is mashed and juiced, and drink more. Relieve heatstroke and polydipsia

2 edema, abdominal distension, dysuria (including kidney disease, heart disease or beriberi edema, ascites caused by liver disease, etc.). ): two or three pairs of winter melon skins (double the fresh ones), boiled into thick soup, and taken two or three times a day.

3. Lung abscess and yang abscess: five dollars for winter melon seeds, two dollars for peach kernels, two dollars for peony bark, two dollars for lung abscess and Radix Platycodi and Radix Glycyrrhizae; For intestinal carbuncle, add yellow and mirabilite for two yuan each. Decoct with water twice a day.

4. Pertussis or bronchitis, severe cough: five yuan of winter melon seeds, add appropriate amount of brown sugar, mash and grind, and take it with boiling water twice a day.

5. Poisoning and abdominal pain caused by eating crabs, puffer fish and other fish by mistake: Mash fresh wax gourd into juice and take it in large quantities.

6. Thirsty and polyuria (including diabetes): 2 portions of waxgourd peel, Ophiopogon japonicus, Coptidis Rhizoma and San Qian each1-,decocted in water, 2-3 times a day.

7. Asthma: A small wax gourd with no pedicel, cut open, put in a proper amount of rock sugar, steam it in a steamer, take the juice and take it. Three or four pieces will take immediate effect.

8. Nervous and rigid people: You can use wax gourd oil with shellfish and mushrooms to stew soup.

9. People with prominent waistlines: You can add bamboo shoots, fungus and lean meat to the melon juice and cook together.