Wax gourd not only clears away heat and detoxifies, but also has a good effect on weight loss and beauty. Cassia seed can clear liver and tonify kidney, improve eyesight, induce diuresis and relieve constipation. Watermelon peel has obvious diuretic effect. Boiling it in water can help to eliminate edema and prevent skin pigmentation, beauty beauty. The main function of wax gourd seed is to expel pus, which has a good effect on treating lung abscess, cough and pus discharge, intestinal carbuncle (appendicitis) and constipation.

"Compendium of Materia Medica" says: Wax gourd "has the functions of clearing heat due to cold, benefiting spleen, facilitating defecation, reducing swelling, quenching thirst, clearing away heat and toxic materials, reducing swelling and relieving pain". Wax gourd is all used as medicine, and its skin, meat and kernel can be used as medicine. Because wax gourd contains low sodium and high potassium, eating more wax gourd has therapeutic effect on hypertension, nephropathy and edema; Wax gourd can prevent silicosis; Wax gourd has prolactin effect on parturient. But people with kidney deficiency still try to eat less melons.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that lotus leaf tastes bitter and flat, and belongs to liver, spleen, stomach and heart meridian. Has the effects of clearing away summer heat, promoting diuresis, promoting hair growth, clearing yang, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. The modern research results of traditional Chinese medicine show that lotus leaf has the function of reducing blood fat. The total effective rate of reducing cholesterol was 965,438 0.3%, of which the remarkable effective rate was 37.8%. It is reported that alkaloids in lotus leaves have the function of lowering blood lipid and are often used to treat obesity in clinic.

Side effects: Not suitable for excessive drinking. The normal drinking water of human body is 2500 ml to 3000 ml. If you drink too much wax gourd lotus leaf tea after meals every day, it will dilute the gastric juice and make digestion difficult, accompanied by side effects such as bloating and stomach discomfort. In addition, women during menstruation and pregnancy should not drink it.

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wax gourd

Winter melon is slightly cold and sweet. Has the effects of relieving summer-heat, quenching thirst, clearing away heat, resolving phlegm, promoting diuresis, reducing swelling, and reducing weight and detoxicating. Wax gourd contains a lot of potassium salts, including protein 0.4g, carbohydrate 2g, crude fiber 0.4g, calcium 19mg, phosphorus 12mg, iron 0.3mg, carotene 0.0 1mg, vitamin 0.0 1mg, vitamin 0.02mg, and c6544. Wax gourd is rich in vitamin C.

Wax gourd is light and refreshing, and has a unique fragrance. It is an ideal vegetable diet for people in summer and autumn. Eating wax gourd regularly can not only relieve summer heat, quench thirst, clear away heat and phlegm, induce diuresis and reduce swelling, but also lose weight, especially for obese people. Eating wax gourd regularly can make people thin and healthy, and wax gourd is indeed a cheap food.

lotus leaf

Lotus leaf is a kind of food for both medicine and food. The rich flavonoids in lotus leaves are scavengers of most oxygen free radicals, which can improve the activity of SOD (superoxide dismutase) and reduce the production of MDA (lipid peroxide malondialdehyde) and 0x-LDL (oxidized low density lipoprotein). It can increase coronary flow and antagonize experimental myocardial infarction.

It has protective effect on acute myocardial ischemia; Has obvious effect on treating coronary heart disease and hypertension. It also plays an important role in reducing diastolic blood pressure, preventing arrhythmia and cardiovascular diseases. Therefore, flavone from lotus leaf is a very valuable substance to be developed, which can be used as a raw material for treating cardiovascular diseases, and can also be widely used in functional foods, health foods and beverages. In addition, alkaloid, another active substance in lotus leaf, has obvious physiological activity, obvious hypolipidemic and antiviral effects.

Suitable for people:

1. Women who sit in the office for a long time: Because they sit for a long time without exercise, their stomachs become very big, which seriously affects the beauty of the whole body. Women who also want to have a charming figure.

2. General's belly: In the past, a man with a big belly was considered as a symbol of power and wealth, but now "General's belly" has long been an unhealthy symbol, which not only affects his image, but also poses a considerable threat to his health. And men who want a standard weight.

3. Adolescent obesity: Adolescent obesity is harmful to body shape and appearance, and it will also affect the health of young women. For the sake of figure and health of young women.

4. Women who gain weight after childbirth: Every pregnant woman keeps eating hard during pregnancy, generating extra energy and forming women who gain weight after childbirth. I want to go back to my beautiful figure before I gave birth.

5. Middle-aged fat people: After middle age, women prefer sweets. When they are middle-aged, they eat too many calories and become fat. They want to return to their attractive figure when they were young.

6. Overnutrition: People who often eat high-calorie foods and become obese, and want to have a beautiful and normal weight.

7. Women who love fashion: They not only taste fashion, but also have high requirements for materials. Almost all women who love fashion and beauty have enviable charming bodies, and they all want to create a fashionable hot girl with a protruding figure and an upturned figure.

8. Obesity: Obesity is the so-called fly in the ointment, among which big face, unicorn arm, bucket waist and elephant leg are really annoying. Beauty lovers who want to eliminate these.

Not suitable for people: menstrual women, pregnant women, not suitable for taking.

References:

Wax gourd lotus leaf tea _ Baidu encyclopedia