The melon is also known as sweet melon or melon. Melon because of the sweet taste and name, because of the fragrance of the people so also known as melon. Melon is a summer melon, its nutritional value is comparable to watermelon. It has been determined that, in addition to water and protein content is lower than watermelon, other nutrients are not less than watermelon, and aromatic substances, minerals, sugar and vitamin C content is significantly higher than watermelon. Eating more melon is good for human heart and liver and intestinal system activities, and promote endocrine and hematopoietic function. The motherland medicine confirms that melon has the remarkable effect of "eliminating summer heat, quenching thirst and facilitating urination".
Now widely cultivated throughout China, the flesh of raw food, thirst and dryness, can eliminate bad breath, but the melon is toxic, raw food in excess, that is, will be poisoned. According to relevant experts to identify a variety of melons contain malic acid, glucose, amino acids, beet beet aubergine, vitamin C and other rich nutrients, infectious fever, thirst, etc., have a very good therapeutic effect.
Contraindications: melon sweet and cold, where the spleen and stomach cold, bloating, diarrhea and loose stools avoid eating. Bleeding and the weak can not eat melon. Melon should not be eaten with snails, crabs, oil cakes and other food; because of the significant role of melon diarrhea, so the average person to eat more melon, there will be diarrhea and abdominal pain symptoms. Suffering from beriberi, jaundice, bloating, slippery stools and postpartum women, patients who have recovered from serious illnesses are particularly inappropriate to eat melon.