Alias pillow melon, winter melon.

The nature and flavor of the cool, sweet and light taste.

Attributes to the lung, large intestine and bladder meridians.

Effects Clearing heat, eliminating phlegm, inducing diuresis, detoxifying, and reducing weight.

It is good for kidney disease, edema, pregnancy, cirrhosis, ascites, flatulence, foot odor, diabetes; hot weather boredom, phlegm, coughing, dysentery, carbuncles and swellings; cancer patients should eat; pregnant women should eat; obese people often eat a lot of food, can play a role in weight loss; arteriosclerosis, coronary heart disease, hypertension, patients should eat; Vitamin C deficiency should be eaten.

Jealousy: spleen and kidney yang deficiency, long illness slippery ejaculation avoid eating.

Winter melon contains a variety of vitamins and essential trace elements, can regulate the body's metabolic balance. Winter melon is cold, can nourish the stomach, clear the stomach fire, so that people eat less, prompting the body starch Fen, sugar into heat, but not into fat. Therefore, winter melon is the ideal vegetable for obese people. At the same time, winter melon has the role of anti-aging, eating for a long time can keep the skin white as jade, moist and smooth, and can keep the body fit. In addition, winter melon has a good heat effect. Eat more winter melon in summer, not only quench the thirst of summer, diuretic, but also can make people free from boils. Because of its diuretic, and contains very little sodium, so it is a chronic kidney salt edema, malnutrition edema, edema in pregnant women to reduce the swelling of good products. Ham color is bright, red and white, lean meat is salty and sweet, fat and not greasy, delicious, a variety of nutrients can be easily absorbed by the body, with a stomach and fluids, beneficial to the kidneys and yang, solid bone marrow, healthy foot, healing wounds and other roles.