Dried winter melon skin is sweet and slightly cold in nature, winter melon skin is rich in sugar, protein, vitamin C, with diuretic effect, diuretic swelling, clearing heat and relieving summer heat.

Winter melon skin is slightly cold and sweet, light, can clear heat and diuretic swelling, often used in edema and fullness, especially for dampness and heat caused by the urine is not good and so on. Winter melon skin can also treat diabetes, if you can insist on drinking winter melon skin soup 3 to 6 months, can make diabetic patients "more than three" (drink more, eat more, urinate more) symptoms have been significantly improved. Visible, eat winter melon should not cut off the skin of winter melon, the best with the skin together with the stew, the nutrition and efficacy of the winter melon skin to play out.

Efficacy

Clearing heat and water; reduce swelling. Main edema; urinary incontinence; diarrhea; sores and swelling. Diuretic swelling. Used for edema and distension, urinary incontinence, summer fever and thirst, short and red urine. Ben Cao Tu Jing: function and winter melon and so on. Compendium: Main donkey and horse sweat into the sores, swelling and pain, Yin dry for the end of the coating, and the main fracture damage pain. Yunnan Materia Medica: quench thirst, eliminate phlegm, facilitate urination. Treatment of stroke. The Materia Medica Again: Goes to the skin, removes dampness and chases the wind, replenishes the spleen and diarrhea. Shandong Traditional Chinese Medicine (《山东中藥》): promoting dampness and eliminating summer heat. ZhongQingTang Suibi: Relieving wind-heat, subduing swelling. Classification of Herbal Medicines: treating edema and hemorrhoids. Jiangsu Plant Drugs: treating diarrhea and swelling of the foot and hock.