1, promote diuresis to reduce swelling. The rind of winter melon is a kind of food with mild medicinal properties, which can reduce swelling and promote diuresis. When the body has edema problems, it can be treated with rind of winter melon. If the edema is caused by heart disease or hypertension, it can also be cooked with rind of winter melon, brown sugar and adzuki bean, and the effect is also very good.

2. Clearing away heat and detoxicating. Watermelon peel is a cold and cool food, which can achieve a good effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat after taking medicine. When there is a problem of short urine and a cold caused by summer heat, you can directly treat it with watermelon peel, and mix it with watermelon peel to drink it instead of tea after boiling it with water. When there are symptoms of summer dampness, you can also treat it with watermelon peel, and you can use it together with Coix seed and talc.

3, diuresis and pus discharge, many people have lung pus problems. At this time, it is also good to treat with winter melon skin. You can mix winter melon skin, reed rhizome and coix seed together and boil them into water to drink. You can also mix winter melon skin, walnut kernel, rhubarb and peony bark together.

4, moistening lung and relieving cough, the effect of relieving cough and moistening lung can be achieved by using winter melon skin as medicine. When cough due to lung heat occurs, it can be treated directly with winter melon skin. It is necessary to prepare some winter melon skin and some honey, put the winter melon skin into the pot, add appropriate amount of water, take it after decocting, and add some honey to taste and drink it directly, which can be drunk many times a day, so that the symptoms of lung heat cough can be well alleviated.