Watermelon is not hairy watermelon is hairy, it belongs to the cold fruit. Watermelon is an annual trailing vine. Stem and branches stout, with obvious prongs. Cultivated throughout China, there are many varieties, exocarp, pulp and seeds in various forms. It is best known from Xinjiang, Lanzhou in Gansu, Dezhou in Shandong, and Dongtai in Jiangsu. The original species may have come from Africa, and is widely cultivated in the tropical to temperate zones of the world, and later introduced into China. Nutritional Value of Watermelon Watermelon contains carotene, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, ascorbic acid, as well as proteins, sugar and other substances, in addition to water. Watermelon juice also contains several important health and beauty chemicals. It contains citrulline, alanine, glutamic acid and many other amino acids with physiological activity of the skin, often containing adenine and other important metabolic components.
Eating watermelon effects and functions of watermelon for the summer fruit, the flesh is sweet, can cool down the summer heat; seeds contain oil, can be used as a pastime food; rind medicinal use, there is heat, diuretic, blood pressure effect. Eating watermelon side effects because watermelon belongs to the cold food, anyone who eats too much will hurt the spleen and stomach, resulting in poor appetite, indigestion and gastrointestinal resistance to decline, causing bloating, diarrhea. Diabetics, renal insufficiency, mouth ulcers, maternity, patients in the early stages of colds should not eat watermelon.
Diabetics eat too much watermelon in a short period of time, not only will the blood sugar rise, the more serious condition may also be due to metabolic disorders and acidosis, and even life-threatening. Renal insufficiency should be used with caution, not only to make the edema aggravated, and easily induced acute heart failure.
Regardless of whether it is a wind-cold cold or wind-heat cold, the initial stage of its belongs to the table evidence, should be used to let the evil from the surface of the dispersal of the treatment, eating watermelon will make the cold worse or prolonged the course of the disease.
What are the contraindications to eating watermelon Chinese medicine identification belongs to the spleen and stomach cold, cold accumulation of abdominal pain, frequent urination, urination, as well as the usual chronic enteritis, gastritis and duodenal ulcers belonging to the cold body is not advisable to eat. Normal healthy people can not eat too much or long-term eat a lot, because watermelon water, water in the stomach will dilute gastric juice, causing indigestion or diarrhea.
Watermelon spoiled can not eat, easy to cause gastrointestinal disease and dysentery. After the weather temperature is high, suitable for bacterial reproduction, if you eat open too long, has been contaminated by germs watermelon, will lead to gastrointestinal infectious diseases.