Wax gourd seeds can clear away heat and resolve phlegm, the vegetable oil and unsaturated fatty acids contained in them can moisturize and beautify, and the rich vitamin B 1 and mineral selenium have anti-cancer effects. In addition, mashing wax gourd seeds, adding appropriate amount of brown sugar and taking them with boiling water can also cure cough.

Winter melon seeds are sweet in taste and slightly cold in nature. Herbal Classic Shu holds that melon seeds can "stimulate appetite and invigorate spleen", which shows that winter melon seeds have the effects of invigorating spleen and benefiting qi, clearing away heat and moistening lung and beautifying face. If diabetic patients are accompanied by people with symptoms such as thirst and excessive urination, winter melon seeds can be taken together with Ophiopogon japonicus and Coptidis Rhizoma.

If women have a large amount of leucorrhea, they can cook porridge with winter melon seeds, which has the effect of strengthening the spleen, promoting diuresis and stopping leucorrhea. If it is used for beauty, winter melon seeds can be ground together with peach blossom and dried tangerine peel or taken in porridge.

Extended data:

Pharmacological effects of winter melon seeds;

1, the immune promotion of winter melon seeds

After hot water extraction, the dialysate was obtained by dialysis, which showed a concentration-dependent effect on mitogenic activity of mouse lymphocytes. The dialysate is a B cell mitogen, which has PBA (clonal B cell activator) activity and adjuvant activity, which significantly increases the number of PFC (plaque-forming cells) and shows immune promotion effect.

2. Inhibition of winter melon seeds on trypsin.

Trypsin inhibitors were isolated and purified from winter melon seeds, and four components with trypsin inhibitory activity were obtained, two of which belonged to small molecular trypsin inhibitors.

3, health care, anti-aging.

Wax gourd seeds have good health care and anti-aging effects.

4, diuresis

Winter melon seeds are cool and sweet. It has the effects of clearing away lung-heat, resolving phlegm, relieving pain, expelling pus and promoting diuresis. It is clinically used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat phlegm-heat cough, lung carbuncle, intestinal carbuncle, white turbidity, leukorrhagia, edema and beriberi.

People's Network-Wax gourd can whiten and freckle, and the nutritional value of skin seeds is better than melon meat.

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