Clear away heat and reduce swelling in winter melon skin. Wax gourd peel not only contains a variety of vitamins and minerals, but also contains a variety of volatile nutrients, which can clear away heat, promote diuresis, reduce swelling and lower blood sugar. It's best to boil the skin of winter melon directly, add some red beans, and the effect of diuresis and detumescence is better.

You can also make the soup of winter melon skin and crucian carp. The method is: clean the crucian carp, put it in a pot with winter melon skin and Coix seed, add ginger, salt and clear water, put it on a strong fire, and then cook it slowly with low fire until the Coix seed is cooked.

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Boiling water with lotus leaf and winter melon skin can reduce blood fat.

Wax gourd is the only vegetable without fat, and its sodium content is much lower than that of ordinary vegetables. The minerals and vitamins it contains are of great benefit to patients with kidney disease, hypertension and edema who need to limit sodium.

In addition, wax gourd contains propanol diacid, which can prevent fat accumulation and has the functions of reducing fat and bodybuilding. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, wax gourd is beneficial to water, clearing away heat, resolving phlegm and quenching thirst.

Lotus leaf is a product with both medicine and food. It is bitter and flat in nature and belongs to liver, spleen and stomach. It has the functions of clearing away summer heat, rising hair and clearing yang, cooling blood to stop bleeding and strengthening spleen. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says that "lotus leaves make people thin and inferior", which shows that it has the function of reducing weight and lipid, which has been confirmed in animal experiments and clinic.

To sum up, lotus leaf combined with winter melon peel has the functions of invigorating spleen and promoting diuresis, promoting hair growth and clearing yang from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, regulating blood lipid, lowering blood pressure and resisting oxidation from the perspective of modern medicine, which is a good dietetic remedy for obese and hyperlipidemia people.

Source of reference: People's Daily Online-Don't miss four skins in summer

Source of reference: People's Daily Online-What can I eat to reduce blood fat? Boiling water with lotus leaf and winter melon peel is good for lowering blood fat.