Watermelon seeds are the seeds of watermelon, a plant of the Cucurbitaceae family, which can be used for food or medicine. Generally speaking, the seeds in the watermelon we eat everyday can also be made into watermelon seeds, but the size is too small, so the watermelon seeds produced on the market usually come from special varieties of watermelon, such as the beating melon in Lanzhou.

The hit melon, also known as seed melon, produced melon seeds, black side of white heart, full of particles, the slice shape is larger, so the international market has a "Lanzhou black melon seeds" or "Lanzhou large plate melon seeds," the name. In the fall, after the seed melon is ripe, the melon with a fist to break, eat the meat to take the seeds, wash with water, dry, can be marketed.

Watermelon seeds contain fat oil, protein, vitamin B2, pentosan, starch, crude fiber, α-amino-β-(pyrazolyl-N)propionic acid. Also contains urease, α-galactosidase, β-galactosidase and sucrase. It also contains a saponin-like component called Cucurbocitrin, which has antihypertensive effects and can relieve the symptoms of acute cystitis.? [1]?

Effects

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1. Watermelon seeds are rich in protein, fatty acids, B vitamins, vitamin E, potassium, iron, selenium and other nutrients, there is a role in clearing the lungs and resolving phlegm, phlegm and hemoptysis of coughs and hemoptysis and other diseases have auxiliary therapeutic effects;

2. Watermelon seeds are rich in oil, stomach, laxative effect, there is no appetite or constipation, you may wish to eat! Some watermelon seeds such as seed kernels;

3. Containing unsaturated fatty acids, have the effect of lowering blood pressure, and help prevent atherosclerosis, is suitable for hypertensive patients snack;

4. Watermelon seeds contain fat oil, protein, vitamin B2, pentanedioxylic acid, starch, crude fiber, α-amino - β - (pyrazolyl-N) propionic acid. Also contains urease, α-galactosidase, β-galactosidase and sucrase. Also contains a saponin-like components, has a hypotensive effect, and can relieve the symptoms of acute cystitis;

5. Watermelon seeds are sweet, flat, non-toxic; with lung, laxative, hemostatic, stomach and other effects.

Taste

Sweet, flat.

①Compendium: "Sweet, cold, non-toxic."

② "Ben Jing Feng Yuan": "sweet, warm."

③Medicine Compendium: "Sweet, flat."

Functions and Indications

①Compendium: "Clearing the lungs and moistening the intestines, harmonizing the middle and quenching thirst."

② "With the rest of the house dietary spectrum": "raw food to remove phlegm and dirt, down the gas to clear the camp; a thick decoction, the treatment of vomiting blood, coughing for a long time."

3 have the function of bone grafting.

Watermelon seeds have the function of clearing the lungs and resolving phlegm, and have auxiliary therapeutic effects on coughing phlegm and hemoptysis.

4. Watermelon seeds are rich in fats and oils, have stomachic and laxative effect, no appetite or constipation may be consumed some watermelon seeds and other seed kernels.

5. It contains unsaturated fatty acids, has the effect of lowering blood pressure, and helps to prevent atherosclerosis, is suitable for hypertensive patients snack.

In short, in terms of efficacy, watermelon seeds have the effect of lowering blood pressure, and help prevent atherosclerosis, so hypertensive patients can often eat; watermelon seeds have the role of clearing the lungs and phlegm, cough phlegm and hemoptysis, etc. have auxiliary effect; watermelon seeds are rich in fat, stomach, laxative effect