Watermelon is cold, sweet tasting, and belongs to the heart, stomach and bladder meridians.

1, the main edible part of watermelon is the developed placenta. The outer skin of the fruit is smooth, green or yellow, and the flesh is juicy red or yellow, and white flesh is rare. Watermelon is cold in nature, sweet taste; it has the effect of clearing away heat and relieving heatstroke, generating fluids and quenching thirst, diuretic and removing vexation; it helps to cure chest and diaphragm congestion, fullness of discomfort, urinary incontinence, sores on the mouth and nose, heatstroke, sunstroke, and detoxification of alcohol, etc.. The skin can also be used for cooking, medicine and so on.

2, watermelon, also known as watermelon, cold melon. Cucurbitaceae annual trailing herbaceous plants, native to Africa, has more than 5000 years of cultivation history. Watermelon has a "natural white tiger soup," said, "can attract the heat of the pericardium, from the small intestine, bladder drainage; can quench the sun, yangming thirst and fever thirst" ("Ben Jing Feng Yuan").

Medical Chinese medicine, watermelon taste sweet, cold, if eaten too much, is bound to damage the spleen and stomach, causing abdominal pain, diarrhea symptoms. For the body of the spleen and stomach cold or both see loose diarrhea patients, it is more important to eat watermelon. Nephritis severe, highly edematous, urinary disorders, should not be consumed to prevent increased renal function burden.

3, watermelon is cold, weak spleen and stomach if you eat too much, easy to cause abdominal pain, diarrhea. Also should not be eaten with greasy food, watermelon if eaten with warm food or drink, can lead to vomiting. Eating too much can also cause fire, because of the intake of too much sugar.