Efficacy and function of watermelon rind
Relieves summer heat and diuresis
Cut the watermelon rind with the outer hard skin off into small pieces or strips, boil it in water, and add Tomatoes, eggs and seasonings, soup and melon rind.
Relieves toothache
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that watermelon rind can treat summer heat and polydipsia. In addition to making tea, drying the watermelon rind, adding a little borneol, and applying it to the toothache can relieve pain.
Skin Beautification
Watermelon rind contains high levels of vitamin C and vitamin E, making it a good ingredient for external skin beautification. When using it, you can mash the melon rind into a paste and apply it on your face. Leave it on for 15 minutes and then wash it off. Persistent use can make the skin white, tender and smooth.
Whitening
Watermelon rind contains citrulline, which has the effects of diuresis, antipyretic, promoting wound healing, promoting human skin metabolism, whitening and moisturizing the skin, and diluting acne marks.
After-sun repair
Watermelon rind has a certain effect in treating sunburn: cut the watermelon rind into small slices, apply it on the sunburned skin, and replace it every 5-10 minutes. , if the sunburn is more serious, you can first put the watermelon rind in the refrigerator to refrigerate, and then apply it with ice. If you insist on it for a week, the sunburn treatment effect will be obvious.
Remove prickly heat
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that prickly heat is caused by the heat in midsummer, which brings moisture and accumulates in the skin, causing congestion of the hair orifices. Watermelon rind has the functions of clearing away heat, detoxifying, and benefiting. It has the effect of moistening, so whether it is used externally or taken internally, it has a certain effect on preventing and treating prickly heat.
Healthy ways to eat watermelon rind
Cold watermelon rind
Ingredients: watermelon rind, minced garlic, chicken essence, sugar, salt, sesame oil.
Method: Leave a little red flesh on the watermelon skin, peel off the green hard skin of the watermelon, and cut into small pieces. Add minced garlic, chicken essence, sugar, salt and sesame oil and stir evenly.
Fried green peppers with watermelon rind
Ingredients: 400 grams of watermelon rind, 200 grams of green peppers.
Seasoning: a little each of salt, monosodium glutamate, oil, and chili pepper.
Method: Peel off the outer green skin and inner red flesh of the watermelon, cut into cubes, and marinate with a little salt for a while. Then add oil to the wok, stir-fry the green peppers, then add the melon rind with the salt water removed into the green peppers and stir-fry. Add appropriate seasonings and serve.
Features: Crisp and spicy, it is a great food to accompany summer meals.
Stir-fried watermelon rind
Ingredients: 400 grams of watermelon rind.
Seasoning: a little each of salt, soy sauce, sugar, MSG, and chili.
Method: 1. Peel the watermelon, peel the green skin, and cut into thin strips; 2. Stir-fry in a pan, add salt, soy sauce, sugar, MSG, and a little chili, and it is ready to eat.
Features: Sweet and slightly spicy, a great appetizer.
Orange juice, lotus root and watermelon rind
Main ingredients: lotus root and watermelon rind.
Seasoning: orange juice, salt, sugar.
Method: 1. Peel off the outer green skin of the watermelon, remove the inner red flesh, and then cut into strips. Wash the lotus root, scrape off the skin, cut into slices and soak in a basin of cold water; 2. Blanch the melon strips and lotus root slices in boiling water, remove and drain; 3. Add appropriate amount of orange juice and salt to the melon strips and lotus root slices , sugar and mix well until the color turns light yellow, ready to serve.