Melon cures insomnia
According to Oriental medicine, melon has a sweet taste, cool properties, and the effect of quenching thirst, eliminating annoyance, clearing the air, and promoting urination. Eating melon can prevent heatstroke.
Our country has many different types of melons, but in addition to providing nutrition for the body, cantaloupe also has the effect of quenching thirst, cooling the body, and is a medicine used to treat many diseases.
According to Oriental medicine, melon has a sweet taste, cool properties, and the effect of quenching thirst, eliminating annoyance, clearing the air, and promoting urination. On hot summer days, eating melon can prevent heatstroke.
Watermelon seeds are sweet, cool, have the effect of regulating the stomach, clearing the lungs, laxative, treating blood and pus accumulation in the stomach and intestines, curing dry cough or constipation...
Melon flowers cure hiccups, heart pain... and the leaves are effective in treating amenorrhea in women. Melon stems are bitter, cold, toxic, have the effect of causing vomiting and clearing urination, detoxifying, treating fever, malaria...
For reference and application, here are some medicinal remedies from melon.
- Cure insomnia: 200g melon, 100g lotus seeds, 20g jasmine, 200g white sugar. Boil jasmine in water thoroughly, then filter out 300ml of jasmine water, crush lotus seeds, then put everything in a pot, simmer, stir constantly until lotus seeds are cooked, then add sugar and mix well until sugar is completely dissolved. Eat once a day.
- Cure constipation: 10g of melon seeds, 30g of sweet potatoes, 10g of brown sugar. Crush the melon seeds and sweet potatoes, then add them to 250ml of water and simmer. When the potatoes are cooked, add sugar and mix well. Eat early in the morning, when you wake up, eat for 5 consecutive mornings and the disease will be cured.
- Cure dry cough, constipation: Eat 10g of melon seeds each time, twice a day.
- Cure heart pain, hiccups: 8g of melon flower, boil to get water and drink once a day.
- Cure amenorrhea: 20g of melon leaves, 20g of Chinese clematis, 20g of licorice. Grind all into small pieces and drink with alcohol, 8g each time, or decoct to drink.
- Induce vomiting, cure fever, malaria: 4-8g of melon stem, boil to get water to drink, vomit phlegm and cure the disease.
- Antidote for poisoning: 1g of melon stem, 3g of small red beans, grind both of these ingredients and mix them together, drink with cooled boiled water or drink black bean decoction (black bean decoction) for a stronger detoxifying effect.
Note: When drinking this medicine, it will cause vomiting, helping the patient vomit out all the poison remaining in the stomach. Therefore, if the dose mentioned above does not cause vomiting, a slightly higher dose will be effective.
Or use crushed melon stem and squeeze the juice to drink, it also works.
According to Health & Life - NT
