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What are the functions and effects of winter melon skin?
Sexual taste, sweet, slightly cold. Return to lung, small intestine meridian.

Diuresis and detumescence. Used for edema and dysuria. This product promotes diuresis to reduce swelling, and can clear heat when it is cold, especially when edema is hot. Weak single force, redundant poria cocos, atractylodes macrocephala and astragalus root are used together.

Usage: decocted,15-30g.

Semen Benincasae attached with medicine. For the seeds of wax gourd. Also known as white melon seeds and winter melon seeds. Sex and taste are related to the skin of winter melon. Function of clearing lung, resolving phlegm, promoting diuresis and expelling pus. Used for cough due to lung heat, lung carbuncle, intestinal carbuncle, leukorrhagia, white turbidity, etc. This medicine is used in Weijing decoction for treating lung abscess and Dahuang Mudan bark decoction for treating intestinal abscess. Dosage10-15g.