Winter melon seeds can be used as medicinal materials for a long time. As early as Shennong Herbal Classic, winter melon seeds have been included as medicinal materials. It is also very convenient to obtain winter melon seeds. Cut the mature winter melon, take out the mature seeds, then rinse them and dry them for later use. When introducing winter melon seeds in Shen Nong's Classic of Materia Medica, it is said that after eating, it can "help others to be happy, benefit qi, not be hungry, and be light-skinned and age-resistant". It can be seen that winter melon seeds can not only be used as medicine, but also be of great benefit in helping people keep healthy.
In modern Chinese medicine, it is classified as a kind of Chinese herbal medicine "clearing away heat and resolving phlegm", because winter melon seeds are sweet in taste and cold in efficacy, and can walk the lung and large intestine meridians, which can effectively help people to clear lung and resolve phlegm, promote diuresis and expel pus.
1, winter melon seeds can be used as medicine, which can help people clear away heat and resolve phlegm.
The sweet and cold effects of winter melon seeds can go through the lung meridian, which can help people clear away dryness and heat in the lung, and at the same time can play a certain role in resolving phlegm. Therefore, for people with dryness and heat in the lung, often accompanied by cough and phlegm, some winter melon seeds can be used appropriately to relieve it.
However, the effect of winter melon seeds is limited, and the efficacy is generally not obvious if they are used as medicine alone, which may be helpful for mild dry heat and cough. If the dry heat and cough are serious, winter melon seeds can only be used as an auxiliary medicinal material, and if they are used in combination with Trichosanthes kirilowii, Fritillaria, bamboo shavings and other medicinal materials, the effects of clearing heat and resolving phlegm, relieving cough and relieving asthma are more obvious.
2, winter melon seeds can be used as medicine, which can help people to promote diuresis and expel pus.
Winter melon seeds have the effect of moistening the cold and cooling, which can enter the lung meridian to clear away the heat and phlegm evil in the lung, and enter the large intestine meridian to promote dampness and expel pus. For intestinal carbuncle caused by the accumulation of damp-heat in the stomach and lung, winter melon seeds can be used as medicine to promote dampness and expel pus.
In addition, if some women are damp and hot in the body, their skin will often be sticky, uncomfortable, leukorrhagia, white and turbid. At this time, taking winter melon seeds as medicine is also beneficial to the effect of stopping leukorrhagia.
Of course, from the point of view of drug safety, although winter melon seeds are common, their efficacy is cold, and they should not be used too much, especially for people who are deficient in cold constitution and have poor spleen and stomach transport and transformation function, so they should not use cold herbs easily to avoid injury.