1, Chinese medicine believes that watermelon taste sweet, sex outdated, there is a clear heat, in addition to the heat, in addition to the annoying thirst, through the benefit of urination, etc., can be a cure for summer heat and thirst, heat and injury to the body, urination, as well as laryngeal paralysis, mouth sores and so on.
2, "with the rest of the house dietary spectrum" said watermelon: "sweet and cold, clearing the lungs and stomach, relief of summer heat, in addition to thirst, sobering cool camp, treatment of paralysis of the throat, mouth sores, the treatment of fire, the time of the disease." Diannan Materia Medica says that watermelon can "cure all fever, phlegm influx and stagnation." Nephritis, hypertension patients with the function of the disease. These patients eat more watermelon in the summer, very beneficial.
4, watermelon has the effect of sobriety, so let the drunken patients frequently serve watermelon juice, the effect is very good.
5, with watermelon juice to stop brown sugar, can treat blood dysentery.
6, watermelon has diuretic, cardiac role, after eating watermelon, watermelon water filtered through the kidneys, the excess part into urine out of the body. Therefore, eating watermelon in summer can prevent excessive water loss, prevent defecation, cool and relieve summer heat.
7, home with chronic nephritis, cirrhosis ascites patients, can take watermelon watermelon black cream. The method is: take a watermelon, cut the tip, pour the flesh, filled with garlic cloves, cover the mud, simmering in the fire for 1 day, take out the charred black melon rind research for fine powder, that is, for the watermelon black cream. Watermelon black cream serving method is, each 3-5 grams, warm water to serve, take 2 times a day.
8, mouth and tongue sores can also take watermelon black cream, also 3-5 grams each time, 2 times a day, and can be used externally at the same time.
Treatment of acute or chronic nephritis, available melon flesh and rind made of concentrated watermelon juice to drink, can also be used to dry watermelon rind 30 grams, 60 grams of fresh leucaena leucocephala decoction to take, can receive the effect of urinary decongestion. Treatment of acute urethritis, bladder inflammation, pyelonephritis, it is also advisable to eat raw watermelon, and daily decoction of watermelon rind 30 to 60 grams, are able to reduce urinary frequency, urinary urgency, urinary pain and other symptoms. For hypertensive patients, eating watermelon is also beneficial, such as watermelon seeds have antihypertensive effect. Take watermelon seed kernel 9 to 15 grams of decoction soup, or eat raw, or fried chewing, have a certain effect on blood pressure.
Watermelon cream sold in traditional Chinese medicine stores, is the watermelon rind and traditional Chinese medicine, the mixture of nitrous oxide produced by the white crystals. It will be blown on the affected area, can clear heat and swelling, applicable to acute pharyngitis, acute tonsillitis, mouth and tongue sores also have a certain effect. Folk also chopped watermelon rind, after drying research into fine yet, and then salt water and wine, 9 grams each time, for the treatment of sprains and lumbago. In addition, watermelon seeds shell and kernel have a certain roundworm and tapeworm role.
Watermelon can also control itch. Itchy for sweat retention in the sweat ducts and squeezed into the surrounding tissue and cause inflammation around the sweat glands, can produce small blister-like red pimples, summer life has a certain impact. Chinese medicine believes that itchy son is the summer heat, sweating is not good, summer dampness in the skin due to. Because watermelon has a good similar to white tiger soup to clear the summer heat effect, so it can be effective against prickly heat poisoning.
With the watermelon rind outside the face, you can increase the nutrition of the skin from the outside, promote the metabolism of the facial skin, is conducive to the skin moisturizing and tender, and can prevent the summer sunshine caused by too much facial hyperpigmentation. The method is to use warm water to wash the face, with the leftover watermelon rind in the face along the direction of the muscles in turn gently rubbed once, 15 minutes after the use of warm water will be the juice of the melon rind wash, 1-2 times a day.
Watermelon seeds after processing can be made into five melon seeds, cream melon seeds, multi-flavored melon seeds, etc., both delicious, but also beneficial to the lungs, laxative, hemostatic, stomach, blood pressure and other medical effects. Such as 50 grams of watermelon seeds, even the shell mashed, water decoction slag, plus rock sugar, can cure tuberculosis, coughing up blood and blood in the stool. Watermelon seeds shell crushed, water decoction slag plus brown sugar to take, on the vomiting blood, hemoptysis, intestinal wind blood, etc. have significant therapeutic effects.
Watermelon in addition to eating the flesh of the melon, melon juice, melon rind can also be made of health care diets and dishes, examples of which are described below.
①Watermelon tomato juice: ripe watermelon flesh to remove the seeds, with a clean gauze squeezed juice; the red ripe tomatoes peeled and seeded, with gauze squeezed juice. The two juices are mixed and drunk on the same day, the same day to drink, about 100 milliliters per day.
② cold watermelon skin: the first home leftover melon peel peel and peel the red flesh of the outside of the most thin layer of hard skin, washed and cut into thin strips of pieces of block, plus a little salt pickle for a few moments, squeeze off the excess brine, and then add an appropriate amount of garlic, soy sauce, sugar, monosodium glutamate, small milled sesame oil that is made. Can also be pickled watermelon rind (strip piece block) in a frying pan with seasoning, fried into fried watermelon rind.
3 watermelon rind and lotus leaf tea: 250 grams of fresh watermelon rind or 100 grams of dried watermelon rind, 30 grams of fresh lotus leaf, decoction tea, drink the same day.
The treatment of bronchitis
Volts day to eat watermelon can cure bronchitis and asthma, the specific method is as follows:
In the summer of the day, buy 2000 grams of watermelon a heavy, cut a cover, digging out the middle of it, leaving the melon flesh is about 3 centimeters thick in the melon into the honey 150 grams of sesame oil 150 grams of freshly sliced ginger 100 grams of nuclei jujubes 10. Then cover the mouth of the melon, put into the pot fixed, the pot with water to 1/3 of the melon, stewed for an hour and a half that is. Eat the dew inside the melon while it is hot, slightly eat ginger, but do not date meat. Best to sleep for half an hour after eating. Can be eaten once the best; if eaten twice, the second still need to be stewed hot. Using this recipe, generally only once a year, the winter of that year is effective; the next year, the ambrosia and then eat, is to consolidate. Pediatric consumption can be reduced as appropriate. Avoid smoking and spicy food during the diet.
Eating watermelon and grapes can increase sperm production
Researchers in India recently found that fruits can treat infertility problems. Some fruits, such as watermelon, grapes, tomatoes and lycopene found in certain shellfish, can increase sperm count in infertile men.
Researchers at the National Medical Association of India investigated 30 men suffering from infertility and six couples have successfully conceived after the experiment began. The researchers said, "We found a significant improvement in sperm count and motility. Oral lycopene therapy does appear to be more effective for unexplained infertility."
The researchers said, "In infertile men, lycopene levels were low." The men investigated were between the ages of twenty-three and forty-five and were given two milligrams of lycopene orally twice a day for three months while the experiment was underway. It was found that there was a direct link between the lycopene index and infertility.
After three months of taking lycopene, the doctors found that 67 percent of the patients showed a significant improvement in their sperm condition. Seventy-three percent of the patients had more active sperm and 63 percent had improved sperm structure.
Among all melons, watermelon is the richest in juice, with a water content of more than 96 percent. Watermelon juice is rich in malic acid, glutamic acid, arginine, glucose, fructose, Lycium barbarum alkaloids, carotene, vitamins A, B, C and proteins and minerals such as calcium, phosphorus, iron, etc., these components of the human body's health is very beneficial, and easy to be absorbed. Chinese medicine believes that watermelon is sweet and cold in nature, has the function of clearing heat, diuretic in addition to the annoyance.
Interestingly, U.S. scientists have found that watermelon has the ability to replace the role of Viagra. Sexual dysfunction, may wish to eat some watermelon. Originally, watermelon contains a large number of citrulline, pharmacologists believe that this natural amino acid with "Viagra" (chemical name called sildenafil citrate) similar pharmacological effects. Citrulline also increases the amount of blood flowing into the cavernous body of the penis and promotes the release of nitric oxide from the blood vessels. However, although Viagra works fast, can have some side effects on the human body, and "natural Viagra" although the effect is slower, but no side effects. However, it is necessary to eat three watermelons to achieve the effectiveness of taking a "Viagra".
Utilizing the results of this study, the U.S. Natural Vitamin Company in Arizona developed a new product called Stimulin, a piece of such medicine contains the equivalent of 3 watermelons in the citrulline. The product is said to be made from watermelon flesh, making it absolutely safe for humans, and is claimed to be the first natural drug capable of promoting sexual function in men.
However, although watermelon is delicious, it is not suitable for everyone. The people with renal insufficiency should not eat more, so as not to increase the burden on the kidneys. Watermelon sugar, diabetics should not eat more. The weak spleen and stomach, cold dampness is more prevalent in the elderly, the development of gastrointestinal function is incomplete children, do not be greedy for a moment, eat too much and damage to the spleen and stomach.
How to choose a watermelon
1, sound:
Roughly divided into four sounds, finger popping their head this sound is hard, said the watermelon is not ripe to finger buckle sternum, this sound is loose that the melon is ripe is suitable for consumption. The sound of the hand patting the buttocks is soft, indicating that it is too ripe to be eaten, and the sound of the finger clasping the ground is mute, indicating that the watermelon is already spoiled and cannot be eaten at all.
2, shape:
Must be complete, the tip of the melon and the skin high, otherwise, there are the following shortcomings: the circumference of the triangle, is hollow, the tip of the thin and fall into the skin of the melon is too ripe. If the tip is very large and protrudes from the skin, it is undercooked. If the head is big and the tail is small, if the tail is big and the head is small, or if the melon is halved, the small part is undercooked and the big part may be overcooked.
3, color:
There are various colors for each variety, but they are never different. The sunny part is green, and the floor is yellow. Sunlight to the part of the color should be uniform, otherwise it is the leaves have shortcomings of the melon, poor sweetness, or even bad, the sun does not shine part of the uncooked is a relatively white color, ripe turn yellow.
Special watermelon
Scented watermelon? Henan Agricultural College to develop and cultivate successful "scented watermelon", thin skin and thick flesh, than the average watermelon sweet 4 to 6 times, in the house aroma, there is a "melon after" the reputation.
Two ripe watermelon? Jiangsu Jinshan County, Zhangyan Township test planted "two ripe watermelon", the first crop listed earlier than ordinary watermelon, the second crop listed later than ordinary watermelon, just in the shortest supply of time, so the economic benefits are higher.
Mini watermelon? The Japanese market launched a watermelon, with a palm can be lifted, weighing about l.5 ~ 2 kg, the meat is red, skin ultra-thin, juicy and sweet, the most suitable for small families to eat.
Seedless watermelon? Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences watermelon group bred out of the "seedless watermelon", each weighing 3 to 3.5 kg, an average yield of about 2250 kg per mu, is currently one of the larger domestic export varieties, in the international market has a strong competitive edge.
Wine flavor watermelon? From the U.S. horticulturist's "wine-flavored watermelon", the cultivation method is very special, with a wick, one end dipped in wine, the other end connected to the incision of the melon vine, and sealed with gypsum, when the watermelon is ripe, the wine smells, distinctive flavor.
Square watermelon? Japan's test planting of "square watermelon", cultivation method is, while the watermelon has just borne fruit, it will be placed in a square watermelon mold shell, ripe that is a square.
Rubber watermelon? Henan Zhongmou County, agricultural technicians used 8 years to cultivate a "rubber watermelon", with the advantages of storage and transportation, this watermelon in the indoor natural storage for 3 months does not deteriorate, long-distance transportation of more than 2,000 kilometers does not break.
Mixed watermelon? Arkansas, the United States cultivation of "mixed watermelon", the heaviest up to 90 kilograms, ripe flesh color has three kinds of sugar content than ordinary watermelon 3 to 5 times higher, known as the "king of watermelon" reputation.
Milk flavor watermelon? This is China's watermelon breeding expert Zheng Yixing cultivated a successful combination of new varieties of miscellaneous flavors, now named Jing miscellaneous 512, is a large-fruited varieties, the taste of special sweet, with a milk flavor.
Shelf watermelon? Nanjing, Jiangsu Dafang District Ge Tang Xincun vegetable science and technology station to cultivate the "watermelon on the shelf", the use of frame planting, melon early maturity, yield than ordinary watermelon 1 times higher.
Storage watermelon? Thailand has a kind of watermelon, melon skin hard, with ripe not down flesh, storage not soup, etc., in the indoor natural storage, can be from August to the Spring Festival, fresh sweet unchanged.
The taboo of eating watermelon
Watermelon is rich in nutrients, containing water, protein, sugar, crude fiber, calcium, phosphorus, iron, carotene and other components. According to Chinese medicine, watermelon is cold and sweet, has the effect of clearing heat, eliminating boredom and thirst, and facilitating urination. Watermelon is very good food, but there are contraindications.
Eating watermelon should not be too much
Watermelon is cold products, eat more easy to hurt the spleen and stomach, so the spleen and stomach cold, dyspepsia, stool slippage less food is appropriate, more food will be bloating, diarrhea, decreased appetite, but also accumulation of cold and wet, resulting in autumn disease. Eating too much watermelon at one time, a lot of water in the watermelon will dilute the gastric juice, causing indigestion and gastrointestinal tract resistance decline. Eating a lot of watermelon frozen for too long, but also hurt the spleen and stomach, causing laryngitis.
Eating watermelon in the early stages of a cold
Whether it is a wind-cold cold or a wind-heat cold, the early stages of its belong to the table evidence, should be used to make the evil from the table to solve the dispersal of the approach to treatment. Chinese medicine believes that the table is not resolved, not to attack, otherwise it will make the table into the evil, the condition is aggravated. In the early stage of a cold, when the disease is on the surface, eating watermelon is equivalent to taking medicines to clear the heat in the interior, which will lead the evil into the interior, making the cold worse or prolonging the healing time. However, when the cold is aggravated by high fever, thirst, sore throat, urine yellow and red, etc., in the normal use of medication at the same time, you can eat some watermelon, which will help the cold to heal.
Open too long watermelon should not eat
Eating watermelon should pay attention to the choice of ripe fresh watermelon, do not eat spoiled watermelon and open too long watermelon, because watermelon market temperature is too high, suitable for the propagation of germs, eating contaminated by germs spoiled watermelon will lead to intestinal infectious diseases.
Five cases of eating less watermelon
The early stage of cold. Chinese medicine believes that at the beginning of the cold, whether it is wind-cold cold, or hot wind, should take the treatment of dispersal, so that the disease from the surface of the evil and dissolution. If you eat watermelon at the beginning of a cold, not only will it not disperse the evil, but it will promote the evil into the inside because of its clearing heat and detoxification effect, making the condition worse or prolonging the healing time.
These are the first time I've ever seen a person with a cold stomach, loose stools, and indigestion. Watermelon eaten more will appear bloating, diarrhea, loss of appetite and other symptoms. Poor digestion of the stomach and intestines, nocturia and frequent spermatorrhea, it is more inappropriate to eat more watermelon.
Kidney insufficiency. The watermelon is a great way to increase the amount of water in the body over the physiological capacity of the human body. And renal insufficiency, the kidney's ability to regulate water is greatly reduced, too much water into the body, can not be regulated and discharged from the body, resulting in a sharp increase in blood volume, prone to acute heart failure and death.
Mouth ulcers. Chinese medicine believes that the main cause of mouth ulcers is Yin deficiency internal heat, false fire, burned flesh and blood veins. Watermelon has a diuretic effect, mouth ulcers if you eat more watermelon, will make the body needs normal water through the diuretic effect of watermelon to discharge some, which will aggravate the state of yin fluid partial deficiency. Yin deficiency is more internal heat, aggravate mouth ulcers.
Diabetics. Watermelon contains about 5% sugar, diabetic patients eat watermelon excess, but also lead to elevated blood sugar, urine sugar increase and other consequences, serious will also appear ketoacidosis coma reaction. If you eat 25 to 50 grams of watermelon at a time, the impact on diabetics is not significant, so diabetics should pay attention to the amount of watermelon.
Eating watermelon has four taboos?
A contraindication to greed watermelon nutritious, delicious and refreshing, but its cold, weak stomach cold, epigastric bloating, loose stools and other patients should not be eaten, but also because of its sugar content, diabetics should also eat less.
The second taboo dirty watermelon must be washed, with a clean knife to cut and eat, do not wash the melon and knife on the cut, can not eat by mosquitoes, flies and other crawling ding over the melon flesh, to prevent illness from entering by mouth.
Three taboos rot Cut and eat, avoid opening and put aside for a few hours or even overnight consumption. According to laboratory tests, watermelon cut days a few hours later, bacteria and viruses will grow. Rancid and spoiled melon, more bacteria, must not be eaten.
The four taboo ice watermelon, especially cut melon slices into the refrigerator, will inhale a lot of cold air, eating will make the human tongue taste paralysis, it is difficult to taste the delicious melon. Eat more long ice melon, not only affect the appetite, but also hurt the spleen and stomach, causing disease.
Watermelon cream of the wonderful
Watermelon cream is commonly used in the throat and oral medicine, eat it can clear the heat and detoxification, swelling and pain, clearing the voice of the throat, throat expectorant. Generally used for the prevention and treatment of mouth and tongue sores, sore throat, acute and chronic pharyngitis, tonsillitis, stomatitis. In recent years, pharmacological research has found that watermelon cream tablets contain iron, manganese, copper and other 10 kinds of trace elements needed by the human body and a variety of antibacterial and anti-inflammatory ingredients, really a rare external medicine.
Burns and scalds will be watermelon cream tablets into powder, external burns and scalds of the wound, can make the wound exudate liquid reduction, dry scabs, on the first degree of burns have a better efficacy. The second degree of burns, watermelon cream powder can be used to mix honey on the affected area.
The old rotten leg is a chronic ulcer that occurs in the lower leg, belonging to the bacterial infection caused by skin diseases, medically known as "polycarbonates". Watermelon cream has a good role in removing decay and regenerating muscle, extracting toxins and pus, and renewing the sore surface. When using the first local disinfection, and then the watermelon cream powder evenly sprinkled on the affected area.
Pustulosis is a kind of suppurative skin disease. Watermelon cream has good antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, astringent and crusting effect. The watermelon cream tablets will be powdered, local disinfection and then applied externally to the affected area, preferably without bandages.
Decubitus ulcers Bedridden patients, due to localized pressure, meridian stagnation, poor blood flow, over time, local malnutrition, friction ulceration is very easy, long time not close the mouth to become decubitus ulcers. Watermelon cream has a good heat detoxification, remove the decay of the muscle, nutritious sores, can be watermelon cream tablets into a fine powder, uniform external compresses on the affected area, 1 time a day.
Frostbite Frostbite is mostly seen on the hands and feet, ears, face and other parts of the watermelon cream external treatment also has a good effect. For the second degree of frostbite wounds, the first blister blister epidermis cut off, watermelon cream powder and bandage. After the general use of medication to reduce exudate, itching and burning sensation to reduce swelling gradually disappear, the wound gradually dry crust, change the medicine once a day.
In addition, watermelon cream tablets powder can also be used to treat abrasions, stab wounds, cuts, lacerations and various wounds septic infection. It can be seen that watermelon cream can not only be taken internally, but also a kind of external use of good medicine.
Watermelon utilization
Watermelon since ancient times is a favorite summer good products. Its melon juice contains a lot of glucose, carotenoids, vitamin C, minerals, Lycium barbarum alkaloids and a variety of amino acids, often eliminating heat and dampness, quenching thirst, diuretic, lowering blood pressure and other effects. However, at present a large number of watermelons rely on fresh food, not only low utilization, but more importantly, hindered the development of watermelon industrialization. The following introduces several development methods for producers to refer to the choice:
One, watermelon Cuiyi choose green skin species, will be washed, with a planing knife will be green skin containing wax green skin layer planing, sun-dried, that is, the watermelon Cuiyi (or known as watermelon green). Taste sweet and cool, decoction drink tea, can cure summer fever and thirst, edema, mouth and tongue sores, sunstroke and autumn and winter due to dry climate caused by dry throat, cough and other diseases.
Two, watermelon sauce with thick skin species, remove the surface layer of green skin, cut, the flesh of the melon peeled, the middle layer of melon skin washed, cut into pieces, placed into the meat grinder grinder (grinder plate aperture 9 ~ 11 cm), will be grinded into granular flesh and skin in a timely manner, add sugar to cook and concentrate. Cooking process: 10 kilograms of watermelon rind meat, 15 kilograms of sugar, starch syrup 1.2 kilograms, 110 grams of onion, 72 grams of citric acid, lemon flavor 12 mg, lemon yellow pigment 0.5 grams. First granulated sugar with 65% -72% of the sugar solution, take half poured into the stainless steel steam sandwich pot, and then grated melon skin meat into the mix, boil 10-15 minutes, and then the remaining sugar solution and starch syrup together to join, boil and concentrate to soluble solids up to 69% - 70%, take the Dissolve the filtered onion liquid to join, continue to cook for 5-10 minutes, until the soluble solids of 67% -68%, you can add citric acid, coloring, flavoring, mix well and evenly out of the pot, quickly loaded into the four-rotary mouth glass jar, while hot, the lid screwed tightly, and then in the 80 ° C - 85 ° C of the Sterilization in 80 ℃ - 85 ℃ hot water for 12 minutes, removed in 60 ℃, 40 ℃ of hot water in turn cooled 10 minutes each, that is, bottled watermelon sauce.
Three, watermelon juice? The flesh of the melon is placed in a clean cloth bag, squeeze the juice, add sugar and adjust the acidity in a timely manner. Sugar with sugar to 10% -12%, acidity with citric acid to 0.3-0.5%, and then add 0.2-0.5 onion or modified starch or commercially available for juice drinks thickener, stir well, heat and boil, while hot into the washed and disinfected drink glass bottles, seal, and 100 ℃ in boiling water to sterilize the water. And 100 ° C boiling water sterilization 10 minutes, removed from 80 ° C, 60 ° C, 40 ° C in hot water in turn after cooling 10 hours, removed that is the appearance of a uniform turbid, sweet and sour flavor of the watermelon juice.
Four, watermelon soda? Squeeze the juice with the flesh of the melon, add an equal amount of sugar, poured into the stainless steel steam boiler heating, processing methods and general production of soft drinks the same.
Five, watermelon sparkling wine? Squeeze the juice of the melon flesh, add half the amount of 95% edible alcohol, mix well and then filter, take the filtrate as the ingredients of sparkling wine. Processing method is the same as the general production of sparkling wine.
Six, watermelon rind vinegar? (1) raw materials: each kilogram of watermelon rind plus 6 kilograms, sorghum sugar 10 kilograms (grain sugar is also OK), 4 kilograms of salt, you can make 50 kilograms of vinegar. (2) Method: wash the watermelon rind, cook it, cool it and put it in a jar, add the quartz to mash and mix it well, mix it with sugar after 5 days of fermentation, stir it once a day, add salt after 4-5 days, and then put 1/3 of the billet into the smoked cans and bake and smoke it for 4 days, and then filter and boil it with 2/3 of the billet with raw water, and add it into the smoked billet, and then filter it into the tasty sour vinegar. In order to make the vinegar fragrant and not deteriorate, you can add 2-3 drops of alcohol to 0.5 kilograms of vinegar in the proportion of alcohol drops in the vinegar, or 2-3 drops of ordinary soju can also be.
seven, processing watermelon seeds? (1) sugar salt melon seeds take 350 grams of salt, saccharin moderate. First saccharin dissolved in salt water. The 5 kilograms of melon seeds cleaned and drained and poured into the frying pan, processed salt water, frying with a slow fire, out of the pan after spraying with 5 grams of flavorings can be. (2) oil melon seeds will be 5 kilograms of watermelon seeds after cleaning and draining fried hot, add 50 grams of cooked oil, respectively, add 75 grams of salt, saccharin, fried to nearly cooked, then add the same amount of oil, brine and saccharin, and continue to stir fry until dry; out of the pot sprayed with 5 grams of flavoring can be. (3) soy sauce melon seeds to remove impurities, put the melon seeds into the lime water soaked for 5 hours, remove the sub-film, wash. To 10:18 ratio of melon seeds and salt with the right amount of fennel, cinnamon together into the pot, add water over the melon seeds, cooking with high heat (add soy sauce, salt can be appropriately reduced), about 1.5 to 2 hours can be cooked. Then change to a small fire, slowly baked, with 100 grams of sesame oil into the Xu Xu, stir evenly into. (4) salt fried melon seeds will be 5 kilograms of melon seeds washed and drained, sprinkled with 0.75 kilograms of refined salt, a layer of melon seeds a layer of salt. Bump evenly after 3 hours, dry, and then put into the frying pan fried into.