Wax gourd is a seasonal vegetable in summer. It is not only a common ingredient, but also a kind of traditional Chinese medicine. It can be said that wax gourd is a food for both medicine and food. When we eat wax gourd, we usually peel off its thick skin. In fact, wax gourd skin is a traditional Chinese medicine. So, can it be soaked in water? What is the effect and function of soaking melon skin in water?

1, the taboo of soaking melon skin in water.

Wax gourd skin is also called white melon skin and white melon skin in some places in our country. Just peel it, wash it, then remove the outer skin and finally dry it.

After drying, the skin of winter melon is mostly curled inside, with gray-green and yellow-white colors, smooth appearance and rough inside. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the scientific use of winter melon skin has a very good health care effect on the body. Winter melon skin is sweet and has a very good health care effect on spleen and small intestine after taking it.

Although the use of winter melon skin can promote health to a certain extent, we must master the most appropriate method. It is suggested that you should pay attention to the dosage when using winter melon skin, and it is enough to control it between 9 grams and 30 grams. Too much will easily lead to side effects, such as diarrhea and abdominal pain. Too little use of winter melon skin is not easy to have pathogenic effects.

The specific taboos for soaking melon skin in water are as follows:

1, people who are malnourished, and people who have swollen symptoms due to malnutrition, it is best not to use this Chinese herbal medicine, winter melon skin, to avoid abnormal health.

2. Patients with long illness, yang deficiency and cold limbs are not suitable for soaking winter melon skin in water;

3. Patients with stomachache and stomach cold should not soak the skin of winter melon in water to avoid the aggravation of uncomfortable symptoms;

4. Never use the skin of winter melon for a long time and in large quantities. This is because the skin of winter melon is cold. If it is used for a long time and in large quantities, it will easily lead to various uncomfortable situations.

5, winter melon skin is not suitable for use in autumn and winter, because autumn and winter should be tonic, so winter melon skin is not suitable for taking. Watermelon peel is suitable for taking in summer, which can relieve fever such as sultry discomfort and dry mouth.

If you want to get the greatest benefit when taking the skin of winter melon, you must choose a scientific method of use, especially if you can't take this medicine in winter. The skin of winter melon is cold. If it is taken in large quantities in autumn and winter, it will easily lead to cold accumulation in the body, which is very unfavorable for health and spleen and stomach. In order to avoid cold deposition in the body to the maximum extent, Xiao Bian suggests that you should not take winter melon skin and winter melon too often, especially winter melon soup.

If you want to neutralize the coldness, you can add some warm foods, such as onion, ginger, garlic, beef, cashmere, sweet potato, etc., to winter melon and its skin, which will be more beneficial to your health and avoid physical damage.

2. How to eat the skin of winter melon

1, appropriate amount of winter melon peel, stir-fry and grind it into the end of menstruation, and take 3 grams of wine each time (warm water can also be taken for those who can't drink), 2-3 times a day before it can be used to treat low back pain caused by falls.

2, 30 grams of winter melon skin (frosted), a little honey, decocted in water. This prescription can treat cough.

3. 30g of winter melon skin, 0/5g of seaweed/kloc-,0/5g of honeysuckle stem/kloc-,0/5g of pink flower/kloc-,and 30g of pumice, and decocted with water. This recipe can treat simple goiter and benign adenomas.

4, 60 pikes of wax gourd and 60 grams of broad beans, decocted in water to take soup, 3-4 times a day. This recipe can treat acute nephritis.

5. Pour the boiled water of winter melon skin into the basin for washing feet. When the water of winter melon skin is slightly cool, put the affected feet into the basin, soak for about 15 minutes, and wash for 15-20 days, which has obvious curative effect on beriberi. People who suffer from beriberi for the first time can generally be cured by scalding for 5-7 days.

6. Watermelon peel18g, watermelon peel18g, cogongrass rhizome18g, corn stigma12g, and adzuki bean 9g, decocted in water. This prescription can treat nephritis, dysuria and edema all over the body.