Medicinal value of winter melon

Winter melon is not only a vegetable with high nutritional value, but also has certain medicinal uses. Today I will tell you about the medicinal value of winter melon:

【Nature and flavor】

It tastes sweet and mild, and is slightly cold in nature.

【Element】

This product contains protein, carbohydrates, carotene, multiple vitamins, crude fiber, calcium, phosphorus, iron, and has a high potassium salt content and a low sodium salt content.

【function】

It can clear away heat and detoxify, promote diuresis and eliminate phlegm, relieve restlessness and thirst, and remove dampness and relieve heat. It is used for chest heat, urinary incontinence, lung abscess, cough and asthma, liver cirrhosis ascites, hypertension, etc.

【Chronic nephritis】

1000g winter melon and 1 carp (weighing about 300g) are cooked into soup without adding salt.

[Summer heat and humidity, bad temper, and fatigue in the limbs]

1000g winter melon, 500g duck meat, 30g Euryale ferox, 30g Job's tears. Cook the Euryale ferox and Job's tears first, then add the duck meat, and finally the winter melon and cook until cooked. Eat an appropriate amount each time.

【Summer colds and Feng Shui diseases】

150g fresh winter melon, 100g polished rice. Peel the winter melon, chop the flesh, stir-fry with peanut oil, add appropriate amount of shredded ginger and fermented black beans, stir-fry briefly, and cook with polished rice into porridge. Eat twice a day.

【Pulmonary abscess】

Crush 50 grams of wax gourd seeds and 50 grams of fresh reed root, decoct in water, take once in the morning and evening, continuously.

【Cirrhosis Ascites】

Crush and boil 1000 grams of winter melon, filter with gauze to remove the residue and take the juice. Drink 60 ml each time, 3 times a day, to relieve symptoms.

[Edema]

100g wax gourd peel, 30g corn silk, 30g Imperata root, decoct in water, take 3 times a day. Or 1000g wax gourd, 100g red bean, stew in water and drink, take 2 times a day.

[Hypertension, hyperactivity of liver yang, headache and dizziness]

500g winter melon, 250g grass carp head, fry the fish head until golden brown, add the winter melon, add appropriate amount of water, simmer for 4 hours, add salt to taste and eat as a side dish. Twice a day.

【Lung heat cough, yellow and thick phlegm】

500g fresh winter melon, 1 fresh lotus leaf. Add appropriate amount of water to stew soup, add salt to taste and drink soup and eat winter melon, 2 times a day.

It is advisable not to take too much if you have spleen and stomach deficiency or kidney deficiency.