Watermelon contains an amino acid called citrulline, which has a good diuretic effect and is also one of the pharmaceutical ingredients for treating kidney diseases. It is also effective for heart disease, hypertension and edema caused by pregnancy.

2, grapefruit

Grapefruit has a good weight loss effect. Grapefruit is low in calories and high in potassium. Potassium is beneficial to the body to discharge excess water and eliminate edema. Put grapefruit meat into a juicer and juice it with a little water. If you feel sour, you can add a proper amount of honey to increase the taste and strengthen the effect of detoxifying and moistening the intestines.

3. Coix seed

There are two kinds of job's tears: raw and cooked. The raw and cooked parts are semi-balanced, quick-acting, invigorating the spleen and promoting diuresis. Coix seed can promote blood and water metabolism, promote diuresis and eliminate edema, and expel excess water from the body.

4. adzuki bean

Saponins contained in red bean skin are not only rich in potassium, but also have a strong diuretic effect, which has a good improvement effect on beriberi and edema of face and feet caused by decreased renal function. Red beans are often made into bean paste stuffing, but it is not the best choice if you want to reduce swelling, because making bean paste stuffing means leaving cooked red beans, and saponin has been lost with the poured soup. Boiling red bean soup is the first choice. Cook on low heat until the soup is only half of the total when water is added.

5. Mung beans

Mung beans are sweet, cool, enter the heart and stomach meridian, and have the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving summer heat and diuresis. Pay attention to the following questions when drinking mung bean soup. First, if you want to increase the heat-clearing effect, after cooking porridge or soup, eat it with the skin; Second, it is best not to add sugar, otherwise it will reduce the role of mung beans in clearing heat and promoting diuresis; Third, mung beans are cold, and people with weak spleen and stomach should not eat more.

6. Macroalgae

Kelp is salty, cold in nature, enters the liver and spleen meridians, and has the effect of clearing heat and promoting diuresis. In addition, kelp also contains iodine, which has an auxiliary treatment effect on simple goiter caused by iodine deficiency. Kelp can be used for cold salad or soup.

7.wax gourd

Wax gourd is sweet, light and cool, and enters the lung, large intestine and bladder meridian. Has the effects of clearing away heat, promoting diuresis, relieving swelling and toxic materials, promoting fluid production and relieving vexation. Wax gourd has a strong diuretic effect, and people who are prone to edema should eat it often. The effect of cooking soup is good, adding less salt and eating lightly is better.

8.cucumber

Cucumber is more than 90% water, and its nutritional value is not high. Isomangiferin contained in cucumber skin has a good diuretic effect, so cucumber has been used in the first aid of cystitis and acute nephritis since ancient times. Cucumber can be eaten raw even with its skin. If dried with pedicels and vines and boiled with water, a strong diuretic effect can be obtained. But people with a cold stomach are not suitable for eating too many raw cucumbers.

9, potatoes

Potatoes are also called "apples growing in the soil" because of their rich nutrition. They are rich in inorganic salts, and the potassium content in inorganic salts is very high. Potassium can not only help the body to excrete sodium that is retained in the body due to excessive salt, but also promote the body to excrete excess water. In order to make effective use of potassium in potatoes, it is best not to peel potatoes when steaming, baking and boiling them. When stewing potatoes, you might as well have soup together.

10 carp

Taking carp as a dietary supplement can eliminate edema during pregnancy and promote the smooth secretion of postpartum breast milk. It is also effective for cough, liver disease, dermatosis, gastric ulcer, rheumatism and hemorrhoids. There are many cooking methods for carp, steaming or braising is good, but no matter which method is chosen, it will take a long time to cook until the bones become soft.