Botanical classification: angiosperms, dicotyledonous plants, cucurbitaceae, wax gourd and millet.

Melon is shaped like a pillow, also called pillow melon, which is produced in summer. Why are melons produced in summer called white gourd? This is because the melon is ripe and has a layer of white powder on its surface, just like the frost in winter, which is also the reason. Winter melon is also called white melon.

It is one of the important vegetable varieties in summer and autumn, and plays an important role in regulating the off-season of vegetables. It is suitable for marketing, transportation to the north and export. It is cultivated all over China. Pick the fruit when it is ripe in late summer and early autumn. Peel, wash and remove pulp when eating.

It is cultivated all over China. Pick the fruit when it is ripe in late summer and early autumn. Peel, wash and remove pulp when eating. Sweet and light in taste, slightly cold in nature. This product contains protein, sugar, carotene, vitamins, crude fiber, calcium, phosphorus and iron, with high potassium salt content and low sodium salt content. Clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting diuresis and resolving phlegm, eliminating vexation and quenching thirst, eliminating dampness and relieving summer heat. Can be used for treating cardiothoracic discomfort, dysuria, lung abscess, cough and asthma, ascites due to liver cirrhosis, hypertension, etc. Introduction of cooking related raw materials

Wax gourd is mainly produced in summer, so it is named because when it matures, there will be a layer of white powder on the surface, just like frosting in winter, which is also the reason. Winter melon is also called white melon.

Wax gourd is panicum miliaceum of Cucurbitaceae. Originated in South China and India, it is cultivated all over China, and the main supply season is summer and autumn.

Wax gourd, the fruit is round, oblate or rectangular, ranging from several kilograms to dozens of kilograms due to different types; The skin is green, and most varieties have white powder on the surface of mature fruits; The flesh is thick and white, the vegetables are loose and juicy and the taste is light. Melons can be eaten by all ages.

The quality of wax gourd, except the tender melon picked early, generally requires the old wax gourd picked late: fully developed, mature, firm meat, thick meat and small ventricle; The skin is blue-green, with hoarfrost, in good shape, without spots and trauma on the epidermis, and the skin is neither soft nor rotten.

Nutritional analysis

1. diuresis and detumescence

Wax gourd contains more vitamin C, higher potassium salt and lower sodium salt, which can be eaten by patients with hypertension, nephropathy and edema. , can achieve the effect of detumescence without hurting healthy qi.

lose weight

Propanolic diacid contained in wax gourd can effectively inhibit the conversion of sugar into fat. In addition, wax gourd itself does not contain fat and has low calories, which is of great significance to prevent people from getting fat and can also help keep fit.

Clearing heat and relieving summer heat

Winter melon is cold and sweet, clearing away heat and promoting fluid production, which is especially suitable for eating in summer.

Related population

The general population can eat it.

1. Suitable for nephropathy, edema, ascites due to cirrhosis, cancer, beriberi, hypertension, diabetes, arteriosclerosis, coronary heart disease, obesity and vitamin C deficiency;

2. Winter melon is cold and cold, and people with spleen and stomach weakness, kidney deficiency and cold, diarrhea due to chronic illness, and cold limbs due to yang deficiency are forbidden to eat.

manufacture order

1. Boil soup, simmer food, make medicated diet and pound juice for drinking; Or use raw wax gourd for external application.

2. Wax gourd is cool and should not be eaten raw.

3. Wax gourd is an ideal daily food for relieving fever and diuresis, and the effect of soup with skin is more obvious.

food therapy

Winter melon tastes sweet, light and cool, and enters the lungs, large intestine, small intestine and bladder meridian;

Has the effects of moistening lung, promoting fluid production, eliminating phlegm, quenching thirst, promoting diuresis, relieving swelling, clearing away heat, relieving summer heat, detoxicating and expelling pus;

Can be used for treating thirst due to summer heat, cough and asthma due to phlegm heat, edema, beriberi, fullness, thirst quenching, acne, facial pigmentation, proctoptosis, hemorrhoid, etc. It can also relieve fish and alcoholism.

Winter melon skin is good at diuresis;

Winter melon seeds are good at strengthening the spleen and nourishing the face, relieving cough and resolving phlegm.

Other related

Wax gourd contains protein and a lot of vitamins and minerals, which plays an important role in skin care and whitening. Compendium of Materia Medica holds that "washing face and bathing body" with wax gourd ladle can "remove dark spots and make people happy and white"; Wax gourd kernel can "make people happy and look good"

Each100g wax gourd contains the following nutrients:

Calories (1 1.00 kcal), vitamin B6 (0.03 mg), protein (0.40 g), fat (0.20 g), pantothenic acid (0.2 1 mg), carbohydrates (2.60 g), folic acid (0.20 g). Vitamin K (1.00 μ g), carotene (80.00 μ g), thiamine (0.0 1 mg), riboflavin (0.0 1 mg), nicotinic acid (0.30 mg), vitamin C (18. Phosphorus (12.00 mg), potassium (78.00 mg), sodium (10.80 mg), magnesium (8.00 mg), iron (0.20 mg), zinc (0.07 mg), selenium (0.22 μ g) and copper (0.22 μ g).

【 Feeling summer heat and dampness, bad temper in summer, weak limbs 】 Winter melon1000g, duck meat 500g, Gordon Euryale 30g, Coix seed 30g. Cook Euryale ferox and Coix seed first, then duck, and finally wax gourd until cooked. Eat moderately.

【 Summer cold and feng shui symptoms 】 Fresh wax gourd 150g, japonica rice 100g. Peel and chop the wax gourd, add peanut oil and stir-fry until fragrant, then add appropriate amount of ginger and lobster sauce, and cook porridge with japonica rice. Twice a day.

[Lung carbuncle] 50 grams of wax gourd seeds and 50 grams of fresh reed rhizome are smashed and decocted in water, and taken in the morning and evening 1 time continuously.

[Cirrhosis ascites] 1000 grams of white gourd is broken and cooked, and the juice is filtered with gauze, 60 ml each time, three times a day, which can relieve the symptoms.

【 Edema 】 Wax gourd peel 100g, corn stigma 30g and cogongrass rhizome 30g are decocted in water three times a day. Or wax gourd1000g, adzuki bean100g, stewed in water and drunk twice a day.

【 Hypertension, hyperactivity of liver yang, headache and dizziness 】 500 grams of white gourd and 250 grams of pomfret head, first fry the fish head in oil until golden brown, add white gourd, add appropriate amount of water, simmer for 4 hours, season with salt, and eat together. Twice a day.

[Lung-heat cough, yellow and thick phlegm] 500 grams of fresh wax gourd, fresh lotus leaf 1 tablet. Add appropriate amount of water to stew soup, eat salt to taste, drink soup and eat melon twice a day. [Edit this paragraph] Health care recipes 1. Stir-fried white gourd with garlic sprout 300g, garlic sprout100g, and vegetable oil 50ml. First, clean the garlic seedlings and cut them into 2 cm long sections. Peel the wax gourd, remove the pulp, wash and cut into pieces. Then put the wok on the fire, add oil and heat it to 60%, add garlic sprouts and stir fry slightly, then add wax gourd slices. When they are cooked, add a proper amount of seasoning and starch to thicken them, and finally add monosodium glutamate to the pan and plate. This dish has the effect of benefiting lung and resolving phlegm, and is suitable for patients with cough and asthma caused by phlegm in lung and lung qi deficiency.

2. Winter melon spinach soup 300 grams of winter melon, 200 grams of spinach, 30 grams of mutton, ginger and onion. Firstly, the melon is peeled and peeled, washed and cut into pieces, spinach is selected and washed, cut into 4 cm long sections, mutton slices, ginger slices and onion slices; Then put the wok on fire, heat it with oil, add chopped green onion and mutton slices, stir fry, then add chopped green onion, ginger slices, spinach and wax gourd slices, stir fry a few times, add fresh soup, cook for about 10 minute, add salt, soy sauce and monosodium glutamate, and finally pour in wet starch juice and mix well. This soup is delicious, has the effects of tonifying deficiency, reducing swelling, losing weight and strengthening body, and is suitable for women with edema during pregnancy and obese people.

3. 25 grams of white gourd and tremella soup and 30 grams of white fungus. Peel the wax gourd, remove the pulp and slice it; Tremella blisters, washed; Heat the oil in the pan, stir-fry the wax gourd for a while, add the soup and salt, cook until the wax gourd is almost cooked, add the tremella, monosodium glutamate and yellow wine and mix well. This soup has the effects of clearing away heat, promoting fluid production, diuresis and detumescence, and is suitable for patients with hypertension, heart disease, nephritis and edema.

4. 60 grams of winter melon porridge and 30 grams of rice. Peel the wax gourd, wash it, cut it into small pieces, wash the rice, add water 1000 ml to the pot, first boil it with strong fire, and then cook it slowly with slow fire until the wax gourd rotten rice is thick. This porridge has the effects of clearing away heat, diuresis and losing weight, and is suitable for diseases such as summer heat, boredom, edema, lung heat and cough. , and can play the role of clearing heat and diuresis.

5. 50 grams of melon soup. First, remove the flesh of the wax gourd, wash the skin, cut it into thin slices, add 200 ml of water to the pot, cook for about 10 minute, and take the wax gourd soup instead of tea. Regular drinking can promote diuresis and reduce fat, which is suitable for obesity and edema.

6. Tanggua Melon100g. Peel the fresh wax gourd, remove the seeds, cut it into cubes with a thickness of 4-5cm, blanch it in boiling water for 5- 10 minute, take it out when the meat quality of wax gourd is transparent, rinse it with clear water, press off the water, put it in the moonlight until it is half dry, mix it with white sugar, soak it for half a day, and then sun it for 3 days. Sugar wax gourd is sweet and delicious, rich in nutrition, has the effects of clearing away heat, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, and is suitable for being eaten as a snack at high temperature in summer.

7. Winter melon and golden soup

This summer comes early, how to maintain health through diet in summer? Dr. Wang Dongxu, Director of Chinese Medicine Department of Nanjing Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, recommended a health-preserving soup-Dongguataijin Decoction. This soup has the effects of health care, beauty, slimming, clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, and benefiting qi, and it is simple to make and convenient to obtain materials, so it can be called the first soup for health preservation in summer!

Ingredients and preparation method: 400g wax gourd, bacon or ham 100g, 30g pseudostellaria heterophylla, honeysuckle 10g, monosodium glutamate and chopped green onion. Slice bacon or ham, wash and slice wax gourd. Put Radix Pseudostellariae and Flos Lonicerae together, decoct with water until Radix Pseudostellariae is soft and rotten, take out Flos Lonicerae, clarify the decoction for later use, cook bacon or ham and wax gourd with water, add Radix Pseudostellariae, monosodium glutamate and chopped green onion, add a small amount of clarified decoction, and boil.

Among them, the main ingredient wax gourd is cold and sweet, clearing away heat and promoting fluid production, which is especially suitable for taking in summer. Wax gourd contains more vitamin C, higher potassium salt and lower sodium salt, which can be eaten by patients with hypertension, nephropathy and edema. , can achieve the effect of detumescence without hurting healthy qi. Propanolic diacid contained in wax gourd can effectively inhibit the conversion of sugar into fat. In addition, wax gourd itself does not contain fat and has low calories, which is of great significance to prevent the human body from getting fat and can also contribute to bodybuilding. Pseudostellaria heterophylla can not only replenish vitality, but also eliminate edema, resolve phlegm and quench thirst. As for the efficacy of honeysuckle, it can prevent heatstroke, enteritis, dysentery and other diseases, as well as the role of anti-influenza virus. [Edit this paragraph] The dietotherapy value is the fruit (or pulp) of Cucurbitaceae climbing herb wax gourd. Also known as white melon, white wax gourd, pugua, wax gourd and pillow winter. It is cultivated all over China. Take it when the fruit is ripe in late summer and early autumn. In addition to peeling, or at the same time, wash the pulp and seeds before use.

[Taste] Sweet, light and slightly cold. This product can clear away heat, eliminate phlegm, relieve vexation, quench thirst, induce diuresis and reduce swelling.

[Reference] contains protein, sugar, crude fiber, carotene, vitamin B 1, B2, C, nicotinic acid and other ingredients.

【 Usage 】 Used for phlegm-heat asthma and cough; Fever, polydipsia or thirst quenching; Edema, dysuria. Modern is also used for obesity.

[Usage] Decoct soup, wring juice, or cooked food.

【 Precautions 】 People with weakness of spleen and stomach, yang deficiency and emaciation due to yin deficiency should not take it. People who eat wax gourd are better cooked (frosted).

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1, steamed wax gourd juice: 1 tender wax gourd (without pedicel flower), cut a lid at one end, add a proper amount of rock sugar, seal it with the lid, and steam it in a steamer. Drink it twice.

This prescription takes the function of clearing away heat, resolving phlegm and reducing qi from wax gourd, and is used for phlegm-heat asthma or asthma. According to "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica", "Treating phlegm and relieving asthma, ginger soup." Therefore, it can also be combined with ginger to enhance the efficacy of resolving phlegm, relieving cough and reducing qi.

2. Fresh wax gourd juice: wax gourd 1 slice, peeled and beaten, cut into pieces and mashed into juice, about 1 cup each time, 2-3 times a day. You can also simmer and drink juice.

Ancient prescriptions treat fever and thirst, quench thirst, dysentery and thirst. There are still many people who drink fruit juice with wax gourd. Can be eaten raw or cooked; Generally speaking, those with high calories should be eaten raw and generally cooked. If you eat it raw, you can eat it raw in addition to drinking juice. For example, "Dietotherapy Materia Medica" cures heat and quenches thirst, that is, "peel white melons, eat three or two, and eat five or seven degrees after meals."

3, melon Lishui slimming soup: 500g melon, cut into thick slices, cook soup. You can season it a little with fat hemp and salt.

"Ministry of War Manual" said: "The water disease is critical, and it can be eaten at will, which is extremely effective." "Dietotherapy Materia Medica" said: "Those who want to be decent, thin and light, can eat it for a long time. Don't eat if you want to be fat. " Cooking soup is easy to eat. Used for edema, dysuria and simple obesity. [Edit this paragraph] Wax gourd-a famous Chinese herbal medicine wax gourd

Alias white melon, water, white wax gourd, earth, pugua, wax gourd and pillow melon.

Chinese phonetic wax gourd

The English name fruit of China wax gourd.

Latin plant and animal mineral name wax gourd. )Cogn。

Meridian and lung meridian; Large intestine and small intestine; bladder meridian

Efficacy diuretic; Clearing heat; Resolving phlegm; Jin sheng; Detoxify

Textual research comes from Notes on Materia Medica.

Classification of Cucurbitaceae and Genus

Latin winter melon

Indications: swollen water; Gonorrhea; Beriberi; Phlegm and asthma; Hot and boring; Quench thirst; Carbuncle swelling; Bleeding and leakage; Relieve erysipelas; Fish poison; drink excessively

Various exhibitions

1. "Trionyx sinensis": Indications for abdominal distension, urination and thirst quenching.

2. Tao Hongjing: Detoxify, quench thirst, relieve annoyance and squeeze juice.

3. Meng Meng: Yiqi anti-aging, except chest and heart fullness, head and face fever.

4. "Japanese herbal medicine": in addition to annoyance. Treat chest and diaphragm heat, clear away heat and detoxify carbuncle; Chemotherapy heat rash.

5. "Materia Medica": The main three are quenching thirst, eliminating accumulated heat, benefiting large intestine and small intestine.

6. "Materia Medica Yi Yan": For back and carbuncle, cut a large piece and put it on the sore. The heat is easy and the heat is scattered.

7. "Daily Materia Medica": five showers.

8. "southern Yunnan materia medica": treating phlegm, relieving asthma and ginger soup. It can also relieve miasma in the distance and treat infantile convulsion. Moistening lung, clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, relieving cough and promoting diuresis.

9. Continuation of Materia Medica: Clearing heart and purging fire, eliminating dampness and expelling wind, reducing swelling and quenching thirst, and relieving summer heat.

10. Diet spectrum of fun life: clearing away heat, nourishing stomach, promoting fluid production, eliminating filth, treating vexation, eliminating carbuncle, benefiting water, treating diarrhea and cholera, relieving fish and alcohol poisoning, etc. Also treat edema, relieve summer heat and eliminate dampness.

Harvest and store in late summer and early autumn, and pick the fruit when it is ripe.

Resources are distributed and cultivated all over the country.

Plant morphology annual creeping or scaffolding herbs. The stems are yellow-brown bristles and villous, ribbed and about 6 meters long. Simple leaves alternate; Petiole stout, 5-20 cm long, covered with yellow-brown bristles and villous; Leaf blade kidney-shaped, nearly round, wide 15-30cm5-7, lobed or sometimes lobed, lobes broadly ovoid, sharp at the apex, with small teeth at the edge, deep heart-shaped at the base, coarse hairs on both sides, reticulated veins, slightly protruding back and densely hairy. Zheng Xu was born in leaf axils, 2-3-forked, coarse hair and villous. Flowers unisexual, monoecious; Flowers are solitary in leaf axils, and pedicels are bristles; Calyx tube debate, lobes triangular-ovate, margin serrate, reflexed; Corolla yellow, 5-lobed to base, abduction; Male flowers have stamens 3, filaments are meristematic, anthers are oval, and anthers are S-shaped. Female flower ovary is long cylindrical or oval, densely yellow-brown setae, stigma 3, slightly twisted. The fruit is large, fleshy, long cylindrical or nearly spherical, 25-60 cm long and 10-25 cm in diameter, with bristles and waxy white powder on the surface. Seeds numerous, ovate, white or yellowish, compressed. The flowering period is from May to June, and the fruiting period is from June to August.

Sweet in nature; Light; Minor Cold

Usage and dosage: decoction, 60-120g; Or simmer; Or mash the juice. External use: appropriate amount, tamping; Or fried and washed.

Source "Chinese Materia Medica" [Edit this paragraph] Selected works "Shennong Materia Medica Classic": "Good color, benefiting qi, not hunger, long-term comfort."

"Records of Famous Doctors": "Indicating abdominal distension, facilitating urination and quenching thirst."

Materia Medica Japanese Flower: "Get rid of annoyance, treat chest heat insulation, eliminate heat, toxic carbuncle and relieve itching."

Compendium of Materia Medica: "Cold purging heat, benefiting the spleen, facilitating defecation and reducing swelling, quenching thirst and dissipating heat, and eliminating carbuncle."

Herbal rejuvenation: "Eliminating heart fire, purging brand fire, promoting diuresis and expelling wind, reducing swelling and quenching thirst, relieving summer heat."