Why is it good to eat watermelon Why is it good to eat watermelon?

The benefits of eating watermelon People love to eat watermelon not only to appreciate its taste, but also because it can cool and quench thirst, relieve heat and trouble, and make people feel comfortable. First of all, 94% of the watermelon pulp is water, as well as sugar, vitamins, a variety of amino acids and a small amount of inorganic salts, which can effectively replenish the water and nutrients required by the human body in high temperatures. Secondly, the ingested water and inorganic salts can be metabolized into urine, which can also take away excess calories to achieve the effect of clearing the heat and invigorating qi. Li Shizhen described the benefits of eating watermelon in great detail in the "Compendium of Materia Medica", he said that watermelon is sweet and cold and non-toxic, not only "quenching annoyance and thirst, quenching heat and heat", but also "widening the middle and lowering the qi, benefiting small water, curing blood dysentery, detoxifying alcohol, and curing mouth sores."

The medical book also calls watermelon "natural white tiger soup", white tiger soup is a powerful prescription for high fever, polydipsia and other symptoms of real fever in traditional Chinese medicine, and it is said that eating watermelon can achieve the effect of this prescription, which shows the importance of doctors to it. In today's view, the symptoms of fever, thirst, less urine, sweating, and irritability in summer heat stroke or other acute fever can be assisted by eating watermelon**. In addition, the medicinal part of watermelon also has the skin of melon called "watermelon cuiyi" by traditional Chinese medicine.

In fact, the role of melon peel in clearing heat and diuretic is far better than that of melon pulp, but not many people know this thing. As long as the melon skin is slightly repaired, it can become a rare summer dish. The easiest way is to peel off the coarse hard green skin and residual melon pulp on the outside, cut it into strips, and mix it with sesame oil, refined salt, sugar and vinegar; It can also be stir-fried with green onions, ginger slices and other things, poured thin and thickened from the pot, all fragrant and pleasant, and make people have a great appetite after tasting.

It should also be said in detail that although watermelon is good, it is always a cold product, and people with weak body and stomach are prone to abdominal pain and diarrhea if they eat too much; It should not also be eaten with greasy things; If watermelon is eaten with warm food or drink, the cold and heat will not be reconciled, and it is easy to make people vomit. After the watermelon is cut, it should be eaten as soon as possible, otherwise its sweet and juicy melon pulp is the most likely to become an ideal "culture medium" for bacteria; When eating watermelon stored in the refrigerator, be sure to leave it at room temperature for a while before eating it after taking it out to avoid damaging the body.

Clear heat, detoxify, diuretic Eat more in summer.

Watermelon, scientific name: citrullus lanatus, English: watermelon*** Watermelon can be called the "king of melons" and is native to Africa.

It was introduced into Xinjiang during the Tang Dynasty and into China during the Five Dynasties. It belongs to the Cucurbitaceae family and has multiple seeds.

Watermelon is cultivated in both northern and southern China, and is a dicotyledon flowering plant with vine-like shapes and feathery leaves. The fruit it produces is a gourd fruit, a fleshy fruit unique to the gourd family, which is a pseudofruit developed from the lower ovary of three carpels with a lateral membranous placenta. The main edible part of watermelon is the well-developed placenta.

The skin of the fruit is smooth, green or yellow, juicy and red or yellow, and rarely white. Watermelon is cold and sweet in taste; It has the effect of clearing heat and relieving heat, quenching thirst, diuretic and annoyance; It helps to treat chest and diaphragm pressure, stuffiness and discomfort, poor urination, mouth and nose sores, summer heat, heat stroke, anti-alcohol detoxification and other symptoms. The skin can also be used for cooking, medicine, etc.

The world's smallest watermelon is produced in South America, the scientific name "Pepquino", is a high-grade fruit with high nutritional value, the appearance is no different from ordinary watermelon, 3 cm long, 2 cm in diameter. The outer skin is smooth and delicate, and the inner flesh is blue-green.

Watermelon juice is sufficient, which can quench thirst and diuresis, and dispel heat and dissipate heat. Watermelon juice contains various nutrients such as sugar, vitamin A, vitamin B, vitamin C, and vitamin PP, among others. Watermelon juice also contains proteases, which aid digestion.

In addition, the glycosomes in watermelon juice also have the effect of lowering blood pressure.

Watermelon is rich in nutrients and high in vitamin C, and Chinese medicine believes that watermelon is cold and sweet, and also has the effects of clearing heat and quenching heat, removing heat and quenching thirst, and facilitating urination, so it is the best fruit in summer. There are a few things we need to pay attention to when we eat watermelon, especially in summer. 1. Don't eat too much, otherwise it will hurt the spleen and stomach and cause laryngitis.

Watermelon is a raw and cold product, and eating too much is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach, so it is advisable for people with cold spleen and stomach, indigestion, and slippery stool to eat less, and eating more will cause abdominal diarrhea, abdominal diarrhea, decreased appetite, and will also accumulate cold and help wetness, leading to diseases. If you eat too much watermelon at one time, a large amount of water in the watermelon will dilute the gastric juice, causing indigestion and decreased resistance to the gastric tract. 2. Don't eat watermelon that has been open for a long time.

When the gas temperature is high, watermelon is easy to degenerate and multiply germs after being opened for a long time, and eating it will lead to intestinal infection. Therefore, when eating watermelon, you should pay attention to choosing ripe fresh watermelon. 3. People with renal insufficiency should not eat.

Eating a large amount of watermelon in a short period of time will increase the amount of water in the body and exceed the physiological capacity of the human body. In patients with renal insufficiency, the ability of the kidneys to regulate water is greatly reduced, and the excess water entering the body cannot be regulated and excreted from the body, resulting in a sudden increase in blood volume and easy to die due to acute heart failure. Fourth, people with mouth scabies should not eat.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the main cause of oral swelling is internal heat, which is caused by false fire and burns the flesh and blood. Watermelon has a diuretic effect, if people with oral swelling eat more watermelon, it will make the normal water required in the body be excreted through the diuretic effect of watermelon, which will aggravate the state of vaginal bias. The internal heat is more and more abundant, aggravating the mouth swelling.

Fifth, diabetics should eat less. Watermelon contains about 5% sugar, and diabetics who eat too much watermelon will also lead to increased blood sugar, increased urine sugar and other consequences, and in severe cases, ketoacidosis coma reaction. If you eat 25 to 50 grams of watermelon at a time, it will have little effect on diabetics, so diabetics should pay attention to the appropriate amount when eating watermelon.

6. Don't eat watermelon in the early stage of a cold, otherwise it will make the cold worse or prolong. Whether it is a cold or a cold or a cold in the early stage, it is a symptom in the initial stage, and it should be treated by the method of dispersing the disease from the surface. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the surface cannot be attacked if it is not solved, otherwise it will cause the evil to enter and the disease will worsen.

In the early stage of a cold, when the disease is on the surface, eating watermelon is equivalent to taking a hot medicine, which will attract evil spirits into it, making the cold worse or prolonging** time. However, when the cold worsens and there are high fevers, thirst, sore throat, yellow urine and other fevers, you can eat some watermelon while using normal medicine, which can help to heal the cold.

Eat more watermelon for diuretic detoxification, especially in the hot summer, eating more is beneficial!