Melons and fruits mainly contain sugar, protein, fat, vitamins B and C, organic acids, carotene, phosphorus, sodium and other nutrients. Melon tastes crisp, moist, sweet and delicious, and different varieties have different flavors, so it is very popular. In addition to raw chewing, it can also be made into fruit juice, jam, canned food, pickled and dried. Immature fruit can be used as vegetable food to cook various dishes.

The roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits, stems, skins and seeds of melons can all be used as medicine. Please refer to the related materials of traditional Chinese medicine. The whole herb detoxifies and reduces swelling, and treats hemorrhoid swelling, hemorrhoid leakage, tubular tumor, dirty poison and heat depression.

The flesh is sweet, cold and non-toxic, clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. Can be used for treating summer heat, fever, heatstroke, thirst, dysuria, and mouth and nose sore.

Stem treatment of polyps in the nose can slow down the nose.

Leaves cure tinea capitis and promote hair growth.

Flowers are used to treat heartache and cough, and externally used to treat toxic sores.

Skin treatment of fever, polydipsia and toothache.

Stem (fruit stalk) is used to treat food poisoning, dyspepsia, excessive phlegm, acute and chronic hepatitis and liver cirrhosis.

Seeds have the functions of dispersing stagnation and removing blood stasis, clearing away lung heat and removing blood stasis, moistening intestines and expelling pus. Treat abdominal agglomeration, intestinal carbuncle, cough and phlegm foam, and poor stool.

Guati is recorded in Shen Nong's Herbal Classic, and sweet melon seeds are found in the autopsy of the female corpse of the Western Han Tomb in Mawangdui, Hunan Province. Therefore, the edible and medicinal history of cultivated melons in China is very long, which should have a history of more than 2000 years.

According to modern research, the pedicel of melon contains bitter toxin, which can induce vomiting. Because it can stimulate the gastric mucosa and cause vomiting, it can be taken orally properly to rescue food poisoning and is not absorbed by the gastrointestinal tract, so there is no harm such as collapse and poisoning. Traditional Chinese medicine is an emetic, which can induce phlegm in the chest and diaphragm, stop eating and stop gathering, and food is toxic to food.

Normal and healthy people should not eat a lot often, because wax gourd has a lot of water. Eating too much will dilute gastric juice in the stomach, causing indigestion or abdominal pain and diarrhea.