Efficacy of watermelon:
Watermelon pulp: protein, glucose, sucrose, fructose, malic acid, citrulline, glutamic acid, arginine, phosphoric acid, lysine, propionic acid, ethylene glycol, betaine, adenine, sucrose, carotene, tomato hydrocarbon, hexahydrotomato hydrocarbon, vitamins A, B, C, and various volatile components. Watermelon pulp contains citrulline and arginine, which can increase the formation of urea in rat liver and lead to diuresis. It has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer-heat, relieving polydipsia, promoting urination, and relieving alcohol toxicity, and can be used to treat all heat, summer-heat polydipsia, dysuria, sore throat, oral inflammation, and drunkenness.
Watermelon seeds: containing fatty oil, protein, vitamin B2, starch, pentosan, propionic acid, urea, sucrose, etc. It has the effects of clearing away lung heat and moistening lung, regulating middle energizer, quenching thirst, helping digestion, and treating hematemesis and chronic cough. Seed shell is used to treat blood and dysentery due to intestinal wind. Seeds contain a soap-like component, which has the function of lowering blood pressure and relieving acute cystitis.
seed kernel (embryo): it has the functions of clearing away lung heat, moistening intestine, harmonizing middle energizer and quenching thirst, and is an important medicine for treating intestinal, stomach and spleen stagnation.
Watermelon peel: It is called "Watermelon Cuiyi" by Chinese medicine. It has the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer-heat, purging fire and relieving restlessness, lowering blood pressure, and has certain curative effects on anemia, dry throat, cleft lip, cystitis, hepatic ascites and nephritis. In addition, because watermelon skin is rich in vitamins C and E, it can be used to rub the skin, or it can be mashed into mud and coated on the skin. After 1 ~ 15 minutes of treatment, it can be washed with water, which has the functions of nourishing, rejuvenating and beautifying the skin and preventing furuncle.
Taboos for eating watermelon:
1. It is not advisable to eat too much, not to eat too much at one time or eat too much for a long time, because watermelon contains too much water, which will dilute gastric juice in the stomach and cause indigestion or diarrhea.
2. Deterioration can not be eaten, which is easy to cause gastrointestinal diseases and diarrhea.
3. People with diabetes should not eat watermelon. If they eat too much watermelon in a short period of time, not only will their blood sugar rise, but their illness may be more serious, which may lead to acidosis and even life-threatening.
4. Patients with renal insufficiency have greatly reduced the function of expelling water from the body, so edema of lower limbs or whole body often occurs. If such patients eat too much watermelon, they will consume too much water and can't discharge the excess water in time, resulting in excessive water storage in the body and increased blood volume, which not only aggravates edema, but also easily induces acute heart failure. Therefore, patients with renal insufficiency should eat less or not eat watermelon.