The skin of winter melon, as its name implies, is the skin of winter melon that we usually eat. In normal times, when people eat wax gourd, they will peel off the skin severely. Because, we can see that there is a thin layer of hair on the surface of winter melon skin. Of course, there are many varieties of wax gourd, and there are also varieties without hair. However, most of the melon skins we eat are hairy. Some people may say that the wax gourd I bought is hairless, but that's not necessarily true, because the wax gourd in the market will be tidied up by vegetable sellers to make it look better, so some will erase the hair. However, this winter melon skin, which is usually abandoned by us, can be said to be a treasure, but it is only little known.

Wax gourd skin, Chinese medicine name. It is the dried outer pericarp of Cucurbitaceae plant Benincasahispida(Thunb.)Cogn. When eating wax gourd, wash it, peel off the outer peel and dry it in the sun.

Effect of winter melon skin:

1 Used for water swelling, dysuria, thirst due to summer heat, and short and red urine. Treating summer heat syndrome.

2 winter melon skin is cool, which has the effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat.

3 Wax gourd peel is used for cough due to phlegm-heat resistance, and is often used with heat-clearing and phlegm-resolving drugs.

Watermelon peel can also treat diabetes. If we can take the soup for 3 ~ 6 months, the symptoms of "three excesses" (excessive drinking, excessive eating and excessive urine) of diabetic patients can be obviously improved.

Efficacy of winter melon skin

1 Wax gourd is one of the vegetables eaten frequently at home. It can clear away heat and reduce phlegm, get rid of annoyance and lose weight, and it has high nutritional value and health care value. However, when people eat wax gourd, they are used to peeling it off and discarding it, which is really a pity.

The skin of winter melon contains more nutrition, which not only has health care value, but also has medicinal value. Wax gourd peel contains a variety of volatile components, triterpenoids and cholesterol derivatives, as well as minerals and trace elements such as vitamin B 1, vitamin C, nicotinic acid and carotene.

The skin of winter melon is slightly cold and sweet and light, which can clear away heat and promote diuresis to reduce swelling. The skin of winter melon is mainly used for edema, adverse urination, diarrhea and sores. It is often used for swelling and fullness of water, especially for dysuria caused by damp heat. It can be seen that when eating winter melon, the skin of winter melon should not be peeled off. It is best to stew the skin together to give full play to the nutrition and efficacy of winter melon skin.

In daily life, people often use the method of soaking the skin of winter melon and dried lotus leaves in water, so that the effect of soaking the skin of winter melon and the effect of soaking the lotus leaves in water are fully displayed, which is very helpful for people to have a healthy body. Not only health care, but also help to lose weight and get a charming figure.

If you are a person who needs to lose weight, if you are trying to lose weight now, you can try soaking the melon skin in water because the effect of soaking the melon skin in water is really good.

What's the matter? Are you scared by the efficacy of winter melon skin? Don't be so extravagant in the future. Keep the winter melon skin.