Melon is named after its sweet taste, and it is also called cantaloupe because of its fragrant smell.
Melon is a summer melon, and its nutritional value can be compared with watermelon.
According to the determination, except the content of water and protein in melon is lower than that in watermelon, other nutrients are not less than that in watermelon, while the contents of aromatic substances, minerals, sugar and vitamin C are obviously higher than that in watermelon.
Benefits:
Eating more melons is beneficial to the activities of the human heart, liver and intestinal system, and promotes endocrine and hematopoietic functions. Chinese medicine has confirmed that melon has the remarkable effects of "relieving summer heat, relieving polydipsia and facilitating urination".
Cucurbitaceae is an annual creeping herb. Originated in the tropical desert area of Africa, watermelon was introduced to China in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and it was widely planted in the Ming Dynasty. Now it is widely cultivated in all parts of our country, and the pulp is eaten raw to quench thirst and clear dryness, which can eliminate bad breath, but melon pedicels are toxic, and if eaten raw, it will be poisoned.
According to experts' appraisal, all kinds of cantaloupes are rich in nutrients such as malic acid, glucose, amino acids, beet eggplant and vitamin C, which have a good curative effect on infectious high fever and thirst.
Nature and taste: cantaloupe is sweet, cold and nontoxic; Guadi is bitter, cold and poisonous. Meridian tropism: entering the stomach, lungs and large intestine.
Efficacy: Melon can clear away heat, relieve summer heat and quench thirst; Melon seeds can clear away heat, detoxify and induce diuresis, and the pedicel of melon can induce sputum and saliva in chest and diaphragm and toxic food, or be used as external medicine.
Indications: Melon cures summer heat and polydipsia; Sweet melon seeds treat intestinal carbuncle and lung carbuncle; Melon pedicel is used externally to treat acute icteric infectious hepatitis, rhinitis, and sarcoidosis in the nose.
Taboo: 1, people who suffer from deficiency of the spleen and stomach and abdominal distension and loose stool should not eat. 2, patients with a history of vomiting blood, hemoptysis, gastric ulcer and heart disease should be careful to eat.