It is cultivated all over China. Pick the fruit when it is ripe in late summer and early autumn. Peel, wash and remove pulp when eating. Sweet and light in taste, slightly cold in nature. This product contains protein, sugar, carotene, vitamins, crude fiber, calcium, phosphorus and iron, with high potassium salt content and low sodium salt content. Clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting diuresis and resolving phlegm, eliminating vexation and quenching thirst, eliminating dampness and relieving summer heat. Can be used for treating cardiothoracic discomfort, dysuria, lung abscess, cough and asthma, ascites due to liver cirrhosis, hypertension, etc.
Nutritional value and efficacy of wax gourd
nutritive value
Wax gourd includes pulp, pulp and seeds, and is rich in nutrients such as protein, carbohydrates, vitamins and mineral elements. The nutritional components of wax gourd from different producing areas are slightly different. Take China Guangdong wax gourd as an example. Every100g of fresh winter melon contains 0.3g of protein, 0.8g of carbohydrate/kloc-0, 0.9g of dietary fiber, 65mg of potassium, 0.02mg of sodium, 5mg of phosphorus14g of magnesium, 0.0g of iron1mg and 27mg of ascorbic acid.
Studies have shown that winter melon seeds are rich in vitamin B 1, which has the function of preventing and treating cancer. There are eight mineral elements such as potassium, sodium, calcium, iron, zinc, copper, phosphorus and selenium, among which the content of potassium is obviously higher than that of sodium. It is a typical vegetable with high potassium and low sodium, which is of great benefit to patients with kidney disease, hypertension and edema who need to eat low sodium food. Selenium also has many functions such as anticancer. It contains eight kinds of essential amino acids except tryptophan, with high contents of glutamic acid and aspartic acid, as well as ornithine, γ -aminobutyric acid and histidine which are especially needed by children. Wax gourd contains no fat and dietary fiber is as high as 0.8%. It is rich in nutrition and reasonable in structure. The calculation of nutritional quality index shows that wax gourd is a healthy and high-quality food.
Medicinal efficacy
Wax gourd is sweet in taste and cold in nature, and has the effects of clearing heat, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling. Wax gourd has low sodium content, which has a good auxiliary treatment effect on arteriosclerosis, ascites due to cirrhosis, coronary heart disease, hypertension, nephritis and edema. Life Taste Diet Spectrum: "If pregnant women eat regularly, they will poison the fetus and make the child disease-free." Wax gourd also has the function of detoxifying fish poison. Propanolic diacid contained in wax gourd can effectively inhibit the conversion of sugar into fat. In addition, wax gourd itself does not contain fat and has low calories, which is of great significance to prevent people from getting fat and can help keep fit. The seeds and skins of wax gourd can also be used as medicine. The meat and pulp of wax gourd have diuretic, heat-clearing, expectorant and thirst-quenching effects. It can also treat edema, phlegm and asthma, summer heat, hemorrhoids and other diseases. Boiled melon with skin can reduce swelling and diuresis, and clear away heat and relieve summer heat.
Winter melon seeds (also known as white melon seeds, melon seeds, melon seeds, melon petals and melon rhinoceros) are the seeds of winter melon, which have the effect of clearing away lung heat and resolving phlegm. The water decoction of wax gourd vine has a unique effect on proctoptosis. The fresh juice of wax gourd vine is used for washing face and bathing, which can whiten skin and make skin shiny. It is a cheap natural beauty agent.