Value of seed gourd pulp:

"The Materia Medica Seeking Truth" recorded: "Seed gourd pulp can moisten the lungs, relieve the heat of the heart, spleen and stomach, quench thirst and eliminate ulcers". Seed melon is warm, is a kind of moistening lungs, warm stomach health food, with warm stomach cold, nourishing tender skin, kidney detoxification effect. Modern medicine has proved that seed melon is rich in fruit acids, riboflavin, niacin and other 18 kinds of amino acids, vitamins, and a variety of trace elements, with diuretic, moistening the lungs, the effectiveness of the spleen factor, with low-fat, low-sugar, low-calorie characteristics of diabetes, obesity, but also auxiliary medical role.

Value of seed melon juice:

Modern medical research has found that the seed melon juice is rich in nutrients and comprehensive, containing a variety of natural vitamins, the whole sequence of amino acids, active functional factors and a variety of trace elements. Including the human body can not synthesize the eight essential amino acids, as well as trace elements such as potassium, sodium, magnesium, calcium, phosphorus, iron, etc., are contained in the seed melon juice. And seed melon juice contains vitamins, proteases, amino acids, peptides and other functional factors, can regulate and enhance the human immunity, improve the body's resistance to disease, soften blood vessels, purify the body of toxins, is a good health food.

Seed melon skin can be made into melon strips, candied fruit, eating seed melon skin also has the effect of heat relief. Seed melon medicine has a cough expectorant, diuretic and relieve temperature, the treatment of gastric diseases of special effects.

Purpose of growing seed melon:

For obtaining melon seeds.

Seed melon, native to southwestern Africa, was introduced to northwestern China via the Silk Road in the Tang Dynasty. It belongs to the low-sugar melon category and is a highly regional agricultural product, similar in shape to watermelon, but smaller than watermelon.

There are many types of seed melons, the more common or more widely planted is the Lanzhou seed melons, Lanzhou seed melons, also known as the "hit melon", due to the fist hit and eat and contain more seeds and so named. Gansu specialties, silver Jingyuan seed melon, commonly known as Jingyuan black melon seeds, with thin skin, flat, thick meat, black shiny, flavor, excellent quality and known. Daozhou seed melons in the south of Yongzhou, melon seeds for the whole body bright red, very festive color, so also by the people of Daozhou as "happy seeds melon".

About the efficacy and role of seed melon and the purpose of planting is introduced here, to eat watermelon can never buy this melon.