. The book "Dietotherapy Materia Medica" says: "Those who are hot eat it, and those who are cold eat thin people; Cooking and practicing the five internal organs is also to get angry. If you want to be decent, healthy and thin, you can eat it often; Don't eat if you want to be fat. " It seems that the ancients have used wax gourd as a diet to lose weight. Wax gourd is full of treasures, and its meat, skin, seeds and pulp can be used as medicine. Meat and pulp have diuretic, heat-clearing, expectorant and thirst-quenching effects, and can also treat edema, fullness, excessive phlegm, asthma and carbuncle. If you want to clear away heat and relieve summer heat, you can even take boiled soup with melon skin. The "winter melon candy" processed from winter melon meat can eliminate phlegm and moisten throat, and clear away heat and toxic materials. When hemorrhoid is swollen and painful, it can be smoked and washed with winter melon soup to relieve inflammation and pain. People with chronic nephritis often eat carp and winter melon soup; Maternal milk is less, and boiled silver carp soup with winter melon skin is effective. Wax gourd seed and wax gourd peel are both traditional Chinese medicines, which are often combined with other drugs to induce diuresis and reduce swelling.