The medicinal part is the seed of Cucurbitaceae melon. See the article "Melon" for plant morphology.
Ingredients contain about 27% fatty oil, including glycerides of linoleic acid, oleic acid, palmitic acid, stearic acid and myristic acid, lecithin and cholesterol. It also contains about 5.78% of globulin and glutenin, galactan, glucose, gum, resin and so on.
Functions: Dispelling stagnation, removing blood stasis, clearing away lung heat and moistening intestines. Treat abdominal agglomeration, intestinal carbuncle, cough and thirst.
(1) Bielu: "Aggregation in the main abdomen and purulent blood are the most important drugs in the intestine, stomach and spleen."
(2) A Supplement to Materia Medica: "It is too much to stop menstruation, so it is necessary to remove oil and water at the end."
③ Compendium: "Clearing lung and moistening intestine, harmonizing middle energizer and quenching thirst."
④ Annals of Traditional Chinese Medicine: "Blood stasis, intestinal carbuncle, cough and thirst."
Usage and dosage for oral administration: decoction, 3 ~ 5 yuan; Or into the pill, scattered.
Recipe 1 has been used to treat intestinal carbuncle, such as swelling and pain in the lower abdomen, watery urine, or difficult stool and pus discharge: sweet melon seeds are combined, angelica sinensis (fried) is one or two, and snake skin is peeled off. Grind the coarse powder, four yuan each time, one and a half cups of water, one cup of frying, and take it before eating, so as to benefit evil things. ("Shenghuifang")
② Treatment of halitosis: Sweet melon seeds are made into powder, honey is mixed, and it is washed in a hollow way every day, including one pill as big as jujube kernel, and also applied to teeth. (Qian Jin Fang)
③ Treatment of lumbago and leg pain: three or two sweet melon seeds, soaked in wine for ten days, is the end. Every time I take San Qian, I will drink it under hollow wine, three days. ("Shouyu Shenfang")