Pumpkin cures dyslipidemia

Green squash, also known as winter melon, is a very popular vegetable. It is used as a medicine to treat some common diseases below very well.

According to Oriental medicine, squash has a sweet and cool taste, has the effect of cooling the body, cooling the intestines, reducing thirst, detoxifying and reducing weight. In the summer, eating squash regularly is both thirst-quenching and very good for preventing some diseases, such as squash has a low heat-generating ability, so it should be used for people who want to lose weight, such as obesity.cardiovascular disease,diabetes…Here are some effects of squash:

-Treats acne, mouth ulcers, obesity, and dyslipidemia: 200 grams of squash, 1 lotus leaf, 1 liter of water. Wash the squash, cut into pieces, shred the lotus leaves, then put both ingredients in a pot and cook for 1 hour, add a little sugar and drink.

-Treats edema, lack of milk in postpartum women, jaundice, hemorrhoids, enteritis and diarrhea: 500 grams of green squash, 100 grams of red beans, 1 liter of water. Wash the green squash, cut into pieces, cook with red beans for 1 hour, add a little sugar, drink daily.

-Cure phlegm, heat in the body, poor digestion: 100 grams of green squash, 800 grams of apple, 200 grams of carrot, 100 grams of rock sugar, 20 grams of tangerine peel. Peel and remove the seeds of the green squash, then slice; wash the apple, remove the seeds, and slice; peel and slice the carrots; soak the tangerine peel in water until soft, then slice into strips. Put all in a pot, add enough water, cook for 30 minutes, add rock sugar, and use as a soft drink.

-Cure thirst, heat in the body: 500 grams of squash, 500 grams of watermelon, enough white sugar. Peel the squash, remove the seeds, wash thoroughly; remove the seeds from the watermelon; cut both into pieces, use a juicer to extract the juice, then add a little white sugar, divide into several servings to drink during the day.

-Cure poor stomach, indigestion, vomiting blood: 100 grams of green squash peel, 100 grams of green beans, 2 liters of water. Put all in a pot and cook for 2 hours, then remove the residue and drink the water during the day.

-Treats sunstroke, heatstroke, diuretic, antipyretic, acne, itching, prickly heat:Peel 500 grams of squash, remove seeds, wash thoroughly, slice, put in a juicer to extract juice, add a little salt, divide into several servings to drink during the day.

Green squash is a cooling vegetable, so when the body is hot, regularly using green squash to cook soup or process into many different dishes in the summer is very good. Specifically, green squash soup cooked with raw shrimp and ham is cooked as follows: Pick and wash the green onions, peel the green squash, remove the seeds, cut into bite-sized pieces. Prepare a pot of water, put the shrimp in to soak until soft, turn on the stove to boil, then use a spoon to scoop the small ham balls into the soup, reduce the heat. Add the green squash to the soup and boil until the water boils again, season and turn off the stove, the heat from the soup will make the green squash continue to cook. Sprinkle with chopped green onions and the pot of soup is complete. A delicious bowl of green squash soup is very cool to eat in the summer.

According to Agriculture - NT