Eat melon to cool down in the summer. Winter melon can clear away heat and help you lose weight! Nutritionist: Boil winter melon seeds and drink water to help eliminate waste in the body

When the summer is hot and the weather is strong, melons are a good food for clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. When talking about eating melons in summer, many people will definitely think of watermelon directly. However, you may not know that in fact, in summer, there is a kind of melon that is more worth eating than watermelon. That is winter melon, which is also known as the "No. 1 melon in summer." The flesh, skin and seeds of winter melon are all beneficial. It can be said that it is a treasure from head to toe. It has a sweet taste and can not only eliminate heat, promote diuresis and reduce swelling, but also has the effects of beautifying the skin, losing weight and lowering blood lipids.

Don’t treat the flesh, skin and seeds of winter melon as trash. In fact, they are full of treasures.

Winter melon is praised as "earth mushroom" and "water mushroom" in "Compendium of Materia Medica", and is known as the "best product for relieving summer heat". From a nutritional perspective, winter melon is rich in vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates and mineral elements. Its potassium content is significantly higher than its sodium content, making it a high-potassium, low-sodium vegetable. Winter melon, including the flesh, pulp and seeds, is rich in nutrients such as protein, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. Therefore, don’t just throw away the winter melon skin, pulp and seeds before cooking.

Boil winter melon seeds in water and drink it to help excrete waste water from the body

There is pulp inside the winter melon. Don’t throw it away when cooking, because both the pulp and the winter melon seeds inside are useful. Drinking water boiled with winter melon seeds can help the body excrete waste water and pus. Chen Yunbin, a fourth-generation inheritor of traditional Chinese medicine and nutritionist, stated in his book "How You Eat Determines How You Live 2 - Changing Illness and Bad Physical Conditions" that winter melon seeds have the effect of going to the kidneys, but they do not nourish the kidneys, but help the kidneys excrete turbid water. Turbid water is caused by inflammation and infection in the body. This water is turbid and has color, such as yellow sputum, yellow urine, and yellow leucorrhea in women. If it develops seriously, it will become pus. Winter melon seeds can help the body drain pus, especially pus from the lungs and intestines.

In the early stages of lung and intestinal infection, winter melon seeds can be used as an auxiliary dietary conditioning, which can promote the discharge of pus as soon as possible and prevent the progression of the disease.

[Winter melon seeds recipe for draining pus and turbidity]:

1. Take a handful of winter melon seeds, mash them, and boil them in water for 20 minutes.

2. Drink directly after the water temperature is no longer hot. It is best not to eat winter melon seeds directly because they are cold in nature and can easily cause diarrhea.

3. This method is used to drain pus and is suitable for situations where there is heavy dampness and heat in the body. If you want to expel turbid water, it is best to fry the winter melon seeds until they turn yellow, and then boil the water to drink, so that it will not be too cold.

When eating winter melon, the flesh should also be kept. The whole winter melon is cold, but the flesh is less cold and has a milder effect. Fresh winter melon pulp can be used to boil water for washing your face, which has the effect of whitening your skin.

Boil the fried winter melon seeds in water and drink it, it can relieve the turbid urine color caused by damp heat and the yellow leucorrhea in women. It is not difficult to preserve winter melon seeds. When eating winter melon, take out the pulp and dry it, then take out the winter melon seeds and preserve them.

Wash your face with boiled winter melon pulp to get fair skin

When eating winter melon, the flesh should also be kept. The whole winter melon is cold, but the flesh is less cold and has a milder effect. Fresh winter melon pulp can be used to boil water for washing your face, which has the effect of whitening your skin. The winter melon flesh can be dried and kept for use in winter. Although winter melon is called "winter" melon, it is produced in summer. If you want to lose excess water in your body in winter, you can use dried winter melon pulp.

Drinking winter melon peel and lotus leaves together to make tea can help you lose weight and reduce fat

The winter melon peel is also useful after being dried, and its function is similar to that of winter melon seeds and winter melon pulp. However, winter melon peel is cold in nature and is suitable for use when the body has internal heat (for example, yellow urine). If you have a phlegm-damp constitution (heavy moisture, obesity, high blood lipids, fatty liver, etc.) and have fever, you can make tea with winter melon peel and lotus leaves (about 10 grams each), which is good for losing weight and lowering blood lipids.