Wax gourd is one of the main vegetables in summer and autumn. Chinese medicine believes that wax gourd is slightly cold and sweet. Entering lung, large intestine meridian and bladder meridian, it has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, moistening lung, resolving phlegm, relieving chest distress, relieving asthma and cough, promoting diuresis, relieving swelling, quenching thirst and losing weight. It is suitable for cough, aphtha, fullness, edema, thirst quenching, fish poisoning, alcoholism, nephritis, coronary heart disease, hypertension, diabetes and lung abscess.

Modern medical research shows that the malonic acid contained in wax gourd can inhibit the conversion of sugar into fat, thus preventing the accumulation of fat in the human body, and has the function of losing weight. Wax gourd is also a good beauty product. Washing your face with the pulp of wax gourd can make your skin smooth.

Winter melon is cold and not suitable for people with long-term diarrhea, physical weakness and emaciation, malnutrition and edema.