Cucurbitaceae is an annual creeping herb. Watermelon originated in the tropical desert of Africa, was introduced to China in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and was widely planted in the Ming Dynasty. Now it is widely cultivated in all parts of our country. The pulp can quench thirst and clear dryness when eaten raw, which can eliminate bad breath, but the stem of melon is poisonous, and it will be poisoned when eaten raw. According to expert appraisal, various cantaloupes are rich in malic acid, glucose, amino acids, beet eggplant, vitamin C and other nutrients, which have a good effect on infectious high fever and thirst.
Taste: Hami melon is sweet, cold and non-toxic; Melon is bitter, cold and poisonous. Meridian tropism: entering the stomach, lungs and large intestine. Efficacy: wax gourd can clear away heat, relieve summer heat and quench thirst; Melon seeds can clear away heat and toxic substances, induce diuresis, and the pedicel of melon seeds can induce sputum and toxic food in the chest and diaphragm, or be used as external medicine. Indications: winter melon cures summer heat and polydipsia; Melon seeds treat intestinal carbuncle and lung carbuncle; Melon pedicels are externally used to treat acute icteric infectious hepatitis, rhinitis and sarcoidosis in the nose. Taboo: 1. Deficiency of spleen and stomach, abdominal distension and loose stool are not suitable for eating. 2, patients with a history of vomiting blood, hemoptysis, gastric ulcer and heart disease should be careful to eat. Description: Guati is Guati, and the Chinese medicine name is "bitter clove". Prescription reference: 1. Wash cantaloupe and eat it at will to relieve summer heat. 2, 30 grams of fragrant melon seeds, add appropriate amount of sugar, mash and grind, warm water to take, cure intestinal carbuncle and lung carbuncle. 3, sweet melon seeds 15g, stir-fried whole angelica 30g, snake slough 3g, dried and ground into powder, each time 10g, three times a day, to treat intestinal carbuncle (appendicitis). 4, melon leaves are mashed and applied to the affected area to treat tinea capitis. 5, muskmelon pedicle burning, grinding into powder, can also be used with asarum powder, take a little and blow it into the nose three times a day to treat chronic hypertrophic rhinitis and nasal cavity. 6. Dry and grind the cantaloupe pedicels and divide them into three parts, each time 0.1g.. First, inhale deeply from two nostrils with one part. After about 40 minutes, clean the nasal cavity, then inhale another part, and then finish the last part every 40 minutes. After seven days, 0. 1 g was also inhaled, and 0.4 g was a course of treatment to treat jaundice or jaundice-free infectious hepatitis and liver cirrhosis. Generally, chronic hepatitis can be treated for two courses; If it's cirrhosis, it takes three to five courses of treatment. After taking the medicine, a large amount of yellow water flows out of the nasal cavity, which can reach 100 ml each time. When taking medicine, the patient's head must lean forward to make yellow water drip out, and don't swallow it to avoid diarrhea. Sometimes there will be headache, chills, fever, cold-like symptoms, or aggravation of liver and spleen pain, and such symptoms will naturally disappear after one day.