Born in general, you don't laugh, and winter melon is a treasure. Wax gourd can be used as medicine from the outside to the inside, from frost, peel and fleshy layer to pulp and melon seeds, and even vines, leaves and flowers have good medicinal value.
Wax gourd is a common melon and vegetable in summer and autumn. Every100g contains 96.6g of water, 0.4g of protein, 0.2g of fat, 0.7g of dietary fiber, 0.9g of sugar/kloc-0, 80g of carotene, 0.0g of vitamin B10/mg of vitamin B. Wax gourd is a food with high potassium and low sodium. It contains 78 mg of potassium per 100 g and only 1.8 mg of sodium. Compared with the two foods, its K factor is 43.33, which greatly exceeds 10, and it has obvious antihypertensive effect on hypertension. If you eat 500 grams of wax gourd every day, you can add 38 1 mg of potassium to the human body, which undoubtedly has an obvious effect on improving the potassium/sodium ratio of the body, and can promote sodium excretion, diuresis and blood pressure reduction. Modern pharmacological research shows that the fat content in the edible part of wax gourd per100g is very small, only 0.2g. Moreover, the propanedioic acid contained in wax gourd can inhibit the conversion of sugar substances into fat, effectively prevent the fat deposition and accumulation in human body (including tissues and cells such as arteries, veins and capillaries), help to enhance vascular function and reduce peripheral resistance, thus playing a therapeutic role in lowering blood pressure. Medical research also shows that white gourd contains a high amount of vitamins. Take carotene and vitamin C, which are directly related to the protection and maintenance of normal physiological functions of blood vessels, for example. If you eat 500 grams of white gourd every day, your body can get 400 micrograms of carotene and 90 milligrams of vitamin C, and the calcium index of white gourd is 1.58, which helps to absorb calcium. Therefore, white gourd is an excellent vegetable for preventing and treating hypertension.