Winter melon contains a lot of potassium salt, including 0.4g of protein, 2g of carbohydrate, 0.4g of crude fiber, 0.9mg of calcium/kloc-0, 0.3mg of phosphorus/kloc-2, 0.3mg of iron, 0.0 1 mg of carotene, 0.0 1 mg of vitamin and 0.0mg of vitamin. Wax gourd is rich in vitamin C.
Wax gourd is light and refreshing, and has a unique fragrance. It is an ideal vegetable dietotherapy for people in summer and autumn. In Materia Medica, it is said: Wax gourd "is good for those who are hot, but thin for those who are cold ... Those who want to be decent and thin can eat it regularly". It can be seen that eating wax gourd regularly can not only relieve summer heat, quench thirst, clear away heat and phlegm, induce diuresis and reduce swelling, but also lose weight, especially for obese people, eating wax gourd often can make people thin and healthy, and wax gourd is indeed a kind of cheap food.
The medicinal value of wax gourd is great. In the Compendium of Materia Medica, it says: wax gourd "purges heat due to cold, benefits the spleen, facilitates defecation, relieves edema, quenches thirst, dissipates heat, and causes pain and swelling". Wax gourd is full of medicine, and its skin, meat and kernel can be used as medicine. Because wax gourd contains low sodium and high potassium, eating more wax gourd has therapeutic effect on hypertension, kidney disease and edema disease; Wax gourd can prevent and treat silicosis; Wax gourd has prolactin effect on parturient. However, people with kidney deficiency should try to eat less melon.