Wax gourd is sweet in taste and cold in nature, and has the effects of clearing heat, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling. Wax gourd has low sodium content, which has a good auxiliary treatment effect on arteriosclerosis, ascites due to cirrhosis, coronary heart disease, hypertension, nephritis and edema.

Life Taste Diet Spectrum: "If pregnant women eat regularly, they will poison the fetus and make the child disease-free." Wax gourd also has the function of detoxifying fish poison. Propanolic diacid contained in wax gourd can effectively inhibit the conversion of sugar into fat. In addition, wax gourd itself does not contain fat and has low calories, which is of great significance to prevent people from getting fat and can help keep fit.

The seeds and skins of wax gourd can also be used as medicine. The meat and pulp of wax gourd have diuretic, heat-clearing, expectorant and thirst-quenching effects. It can also treat edema, phlegm and asthma, summer heat, hemorrhoids and other diseases. Boiled melon with skin can reduce swelling and diuresis, and clear away heat and relieve summer heat.

Extended data:

Growth habit

temperature

Wax gourd likes heat resistance. The optimum temperature for growth and development is 25-30℃, the optimum temperature for seed germination is 28-30℃, and the lowest temperature for root growth is 12- 16℃, which are higher than other melons and vegetables. The suitable temperature for pollination and fruit setting is about 25℃, and below 20℃ is not conducive to fruit development.

sunlight

Winter melon is a short-term crop. Short sunshine and low temperature are beneficial to flower bud differentiation, but long sunshine and sufficient illumination are needed during the whole growth period. In case of long-term rainy and low temperature in fruit period, flowers will fall, melons will melt and rotten.

moisture

Wax gourd has large leaf area, strong transpiration and high water demand, but too much or too little air humidity is not conducive to pollination, fruit setting and fruit development. ?

nutrition

The growth period of wax gourd is long, and the vegetative growth of plants and the growth and development of fruits need enough soil nutrients, so it is necessary to apply more fertilizers. Fertilization is mainly based on nitrogen fertilizer, and appropriate application of phosphorus and potassium fertilizer can enhance the stress resistance of plants and increase the yield of single fruit seeds.

Tufan

Wax gourd is not strict with soil. It can be cultivated in sandy loam or dry loam, but continuous cropping should be avoided.

References:

Wax gourd (plant) _ Baidu Encyclopedia