Wax gourd is a common vegetable, suitable for all ages. Li Shizhen said: "Its meat can be cooked into eggplant and honey can be fruit; Its core is also edible. Covers are also used for vegetables and fruits. " Wax gourd is also a good medicine to relieve summer heat and quench thirst. The ancient doctor "Dietotherapy Materia Medica" said that winter melon: "Cooked people eat it, cold people eat it, and thin people eat it; Cooking and practicing the five internal organs is also to get angry. If you want to be decent and frivolous, you can eat it often; Don't eat if you want to be fat. " The skin, skin, meat, pulp, rattan and leaves of wax gourd can be used as medicine.
Chinese medicine believes that wax gourd is sweet, light and cool, and enters the lung, large intestine and bladder meridian. Has effect in clearing away heat, promote diuresis, relieving swelling, removing toxic substance, promoting fluid production, and relieving vexation. Treat edema, fullness, beriberi, cough and asthma, summer heat, thirst, carbuncle, fish poisoning, alcoholism and other diseases.
For heatstroke, high fever and coma: 500 grams of wax gourd, 3 bowls of soup, three drinks a day. Treating chronic nephritis:
Wax gourd 1 kg, carp 1, boiled. Treatment for pregnant women with adverse urination: 1 cup of wax gourd juice, often taken. Treatment of hemorrhoid pain in the middle of the month: hot washing with winter melon soup.
Winter melon seeds, also known as melon rhinoceros, have obvious effects on treating phlegm-heat cough, lung carbuncle and intestinal carbuncle. As "Materia Medica on Yuan Jun" said: "Medicine is the most important treatment for epigastric pain." Winter melon skin is good at diuresis and detumescence. In addition, it can also treat traumatic injuries. The flesh of wax gourd is also called "melon practice". Washing your face with it can make your skin smooth. If the juice is twisted, it can stop irritability, quench thirst, benefit the small intestine, treat five stranguria and inhibit erysipelas.
Wax gourd is the only fat-free fruit among all melons and vegetables. It contains protein, cellulose, vitamin B 1, B2 and C, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron, carotene and nicotinic acid. Contains malonic acid, which can inhibit the conversion of sugar into fat and prevent the body from accumulating fat. It is not only a beauty product, but also can make people slim and healthy. Nutritionists tell us that wax gourd has low sodium content and is a good product for patients with coronary heart disease, hypertension, nephropathy and edema. Wax gourd is cold in nature, and people who are deficient in cold and slippery should not eat it.