Chinese medicine believes that sweet melon seeds are sweet in taste, cold in nature and non-toxic, and have the effects of dispersing stagnation and removing blood stasis, resolving phlegm and expelling pus, clearing away lung-heat, moistening intestines, quenching thirst and regulating middle qi, and are mainly used for treating constipation, appendicitis, chronic bronchitis, abdominal agglomeration, cough due to lung heat and so on.

The therapeutic prescription of sweet melon seeds is:

Sweet melon seeds soup: 2 grams of sweet melon seeds

Practice: Sweet melon seeds can be decocted with water. Results: Indications are bruises from falls, cough, thirst and intestinal carbuncle.

Sweet melon seeds rice soup: 8g of rice, 2g of sweet melon seeds, and proper honey

Practice: Mash sweet melon seeds and grind them into powder, wash the rice, soak them in warm water for 2min, then add proper water to make rice soup, and finally pour in sweet melon seeds powder and honey, and mix well. Results: Sweet melon seeds and rice soup can improve constipation, detoxify and clear intestines, and clear lung and moisten lung.