The taboo of eating watermelon is described as follows.
Watermelon should not be eaten more.
Watermelon is cold, and eating too much will hurt the spleen and stomach. If you eat too much watermelon at a time, a lot of water in watermelon will dilute gastric juice, cause indigestion and reduce the resistance of gastrointestinal tract. It may also accumulate cold and help dampness, leading to diseases.
Watermelon should not be eaten at the beginning of a cold.
If you eat watermelon at the beginning of a cold, it may aggravate the cold or make the cure time longer. If the cold gets worse, there will be fever symptoms such as high fever, thirst and sore throat. While taking the medicine normally, eating some watermelons properly will help you recover from a cold.
Watermelons cut too long are not edible.
The temperature is high in summer, and watermelon is easy to deteriorate and breed germs if it is cut for too long, which will lead to intestinal infectious diseases after eating. Therefore, we should pay attention to choosing mature watermelons when eating watermelons.
People with renal insufficiency should not eat it.
Eating a lot of watermelon will increase the water in the body, which exceeds the physiological capacity of the human body. Renal insufficiency, the ability to regulate water is greatly reduced, excessive water in the body can not be regulated and excreted, blood volume increases sharply, and it is easy to die of acute heart failure.
Oral ulcer is not suitable for eating.
Oral ulcer is mainly caused by internal heat due to yin deficiency, disturbance of virtual fire, and burning of flesh and blood veins. If people with oral ulcer eat too much watermelon, the normal water in the body will be discharged because of the diuretic effect of watermelon, which will aggravate the weak state of vaginal fluid and thus aggravate oral ulcer.
People with diabetes should not eat more.
The sugar content of watermelon is about 5%. If diabetics eat too much watermelon, it will lead to the increase of blood sugar and urine sugar, and in severe cases, there will be a coma reaction of ketoacidosis. A small amount of food has little effect on diabetic patients.
Not suitable for eating before and after meals.
A large amount of water in watermelon will dilute the digestive juice in the stomach, and eating watermelon before and after meals will affect the digestion and absorption of food. Eating watermelon before meals will occupy the stomach volume and greatly reduce the intake of various nutrients between meals.