Characteristics, Functions, Efficacy, Edible Methods, Uses and Varieties of Watermelon

1. Features: annual lianas; The fruit is large, nearly spherical or oval, fleshy, juicy, with smooth skin and various colors and patterns. Seeds are mostly oval, black and red, with smooth sides, obtuse base, usually slightly arched edges, and in summer.

2. Function and efficacy: Watermelon is a summer fruit with sweet flesh, which can relieve summer heat; Seeds contain oil and can be used as entertainment food; The pericarp is medicinal, and has the effects of clearing heat, diuresis and lowering blood pressure.

3. How to eat: cut it and you can eat it.

4. Use: relieving summer-heat and pain, medicinal.

5. Variety: Little Angel Watermelon, Spring Thunder Watermelon, Jingxiu Watermelon, Kirin King Watermelon, Red Tiger Watermelon, Black King Kong Watermelon, Huami Guanlong, Qingfa Dark Horse Watermelon, Disease-resistant Zaoguanlong, Shaozi Jubao Watermelon and Red Xiaoyu.

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Edible taboo

1. Don't eat too much: Don't eat too much at once or for a long time. Because watermelon contains too much water, too much water in the stomach will dilute the gastric juice and cause indigestion or diarrhea.

2. Diabetic patients: The daily intake of carbohydrates (carbohydrates) by diabetic patients needs to be strictly controlled. Therefore, if you eat watermelon many times a day, you should reduce the amount of meals and flour products (carbohydrates) accordingly, so as not to aggravate your illness.

3, renal insufficiency: patients with renal insufficiency, the function of expelling water from the body is greatly reduced, so edema of the lower limbs or the whole body often occurs.

4. Early stage of cold: Chinese medicine believes that both wind-cold cold and wind-heat cold belong to exterior syndrome in the early stage, and divergent treatment should be taken to treat them from the exterior. It is believed that the attack will aggravate the condition before the surface is solved.

5. Patients with oral ulcer: Chinese medicine believes that oral ulcer is caused by internal heat due to yin deficiency and disturbance of deficiency fire. Because watermelon has diuretic effect. If people with oral ulcers eat more watermelons, the water needed for the recovery of oral ulcers will be discharged too much, which will aggravate the internal heat due to yin deficiency, lengthen the course of disease and make it difficult to heal.

6, maternity: maternal physique is relatively weak, Chinese medicine believes that eating more watermelon will be too cold, damage the spleen and stomach.

7. It is not advisable to eat before and after meals: because a large amount of water in watermelon will dilute the digestive juice in the stomach, eating before and after meals will affect the digestion and absorption of food.

8. Don't eat too much: Because watermelon is a "cold food", anyone who eats too much will hurt the spleen and stomach, leading to poor appetite, indigestion, decreased gastrointestinal resistance, and abdominal distension and diarrhea.

9. Eat less iced watermelons: Although eating iced watermelons on a hot day is very effective for relieving summer heat, it is very irritating to the stomach and is easy to harm the spleen and stomach, so we should pay attention to grasping the delicious temperature and quantity.

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