Small file aliases for fruits and vegetables: white melon, wax gourd and pillow melon.
Branch: Cucurbitaceae.
Flowering and fruiting period: summer.
Nutrition: vitamins, protein.
Tropism of nature and taste: cold in nature, sweet in taste, and belongs to lung, large intestine and bladder meridian.
The health care function of wax gourd is diuresis and detumescence: the content of potassium salt in wax gourd is high, and the content of sodium salt is relatively low, which is suitable for patients with hypertension, nephropathy and edema disease, and has the function of detumescence without damaging healthy qi.
Clearing heat and relieving summer heat: winter melon is cold and sweet, and has the effects of clearing heat and promoting fluid production, relieving summer heat and relieving annoyance.
Nourishing liver and protecting kidney: melon diuresis can reduce the damage to kidney caused by the increase of blood mercury content, obviously reduce the serum creatinine content, and can play the role of nourishing liver and protecting kidney.
Weight loss: wax gourd contains propanol diacid, which can prevent people from getting fat and has a bodybuilding effect; In addition, wax gourd contains no fat, carbohydrates contain less dizziness and low calories, which can play a role in slimming.
How to choose melons? It is best that the melon shape is appropriate, the meat is full, the frost is full, there is no soft rot, no scar, no crack and no injury.
How to eat the most nutritious winter melon soup? Winter melon soup is the most nutritious, and the vitamins it contains can be better absorbed. It has the effects of diuresis and detumescence, clearing heat and relieving exterior syndrome.
Suitable for people: generally everyone can eat it, especially patients with coronary heart disease, nephropathy, diabetes and hypertension.
Not suitable for people: people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, easy to drain, yang deficiency and fear of cold, people with long illness and weak health, and people with yin deficiency and strong fire are not suitable for eating.
Suitable collocation: the collocation of wax gourd and carp has the effects of tonifying deficiency, promoting lactation, strengthening spleen and reducing swelling.
Not suitable for collocation: winter melon should not be eaten with crucian carp, because crucian carp and winter melon are very similar, and eating together will dehydrate the body.
Before eating, it is suggested that women suffering from cold dysmenorrhea during menstruation should avoid eating wax gourd because of its cold nature.
How to preserve wax gourd is the most fresh. If it is preserved as a whole, the most suitable temperature is15℃. If wax gourd has been cut, the optimum storage temperature is 1~5℃.
Gourmet link 1, melon and mung bean healthy soup
Ingredients: 500g wax gourd, mung bean 150g, onion 15g, 5g ginger, a little salt, 500ml fresh soup.
Exercise:
(1) Wash the soup pot and put it on high fire. Add fresh soup to boil and skim off the foam.
(2) Wash and beat the ginger, put it into the pot, wash the onion into the pot, and add the mung bean.
(3) Peel the wax gourd, remove the pulp, wash and cut into pieces, put it into the soup pot, and when it is ripe but not rotten, sprinkle salt out of the pot.
Efficacy: nourishing liver, clearing heat and promoting diuresis.
Pork ribs and winter melon soup
Ingredients: 500g sparerib, 400g wax gourd, 1 teaspoon salt, and appropriate amount of onion.
Exercise:
(1) Wash the ribs, blanch them in boiling water, take them out and drain them.
(2) Put the spareribs into the pot, add: 1500 ml of water, and simmer for 45 minutes.
(3) Cut the wax gourd into pieces, put it into the sparerib soup, and cook it on low heat for 15 minutes, then add salt and onion.
Efficacy: nourishing liver, diuresis and slimming.
Small folk prescription for fruits and vegetables: 1: remove chloasma and butterfly spots, evenly apply the same amount of wax gourd juice and white vinegar to the face, 2~3 times a day, and wash it off after 10 minutes, and it will take effect for half a month.
Prescription 2 Treatment of chronic bronchitis Take winter melon seeds 15g and mash them, add appropriate amount of brown sugar and take them with boiled water twice a day, which is suitable for severe cough caused by man-made bronchitis.
Recipe 3: Take pig pancreas 1 slice and winter melon skin 200g, cook with water, eat with less oil, salt and seasoning (no wine and no sugar), and take 1 dose every day for 20 days.