Watermelon - the nemesis of nephritis

There are many types of watermelon, usually in Oriental medicine, watermelon with green skin and red flesh is used as medicine. According to traditional medicine, watermelon has a sweet taste, cold properties, affects the Stomach, Heart, and Bladder meridians, has the ability to clear heat, relieve heat, relieve anxiety, quench thirst, and is diuretic... effectively treating all diseases with a warm nature.

Watermelon rind (the outer green layer) is sweet, neutral, and affects the spleen and kidney meridians. Its medicinal properties are similar to those of the flesh. It can be sliced ​​thinly, dried, or ground into powder for later use. Watermelon seeds have the effect of cooling the lungs, dissolving phlegm, laxative, and aiding digestion. Watermelon roots and leaves can cure diarrhea and dysentery. However, people with a weak spleen and stomach should not eat too much at one time.

Here are some good remedies from watermelon:

Treatment of nephritis:Watermelon rind and cogon root, each 60g, decoct and drink. If you have acute glomerulonephritis, take 1kg of watermelon; chop the rind, simmer thoroughly until it becomes a paste; mix with water and drink, 1-2 teaspoons each time, twice a day. Watermelon rind has the same medicinal properties as the flesh, can be sliced ​​thinly, dried, or ground into powder for later use.

Treatment of edema:Watermelon rind, squash rind, red beans, poria, each 30g, decoct to drink.

Liver disease treatment:If you have viral hepatitis, take 100ml of watermelon juice and 10g of honey; mix the two ingredients well; drink all at once. If you have cirrhosis, take 100g of watermelon rind and 30g of pig liver; boil thoroughly; drink the decoction and eat pig liver 1-2 times a day.

Cure colds, sore throat:30g watermelon rind; add 2 bowls of water, boil down to 1 bowl; divide into 2 doses to drink per day.

Treatment of chronic bronchitis:1 watermelon, 60g fresh ginger; make a hole in the watermelon, add ginger, steam for 2 hours; eat both the water and the pulp several times a day.

Treatment of high blood pressure:30g watermelon rind, 30g squash rind, 15g Achyranthes root, decoct to drink.

Cure heat stroke:Watermelon juice a large glass, drink several times.

Hangover Sobering:Watermelon juice a large glass, drink several times.

Alcohol detoxification:500g watermelon, 200g sugarcane, 20g rock sugar. Wash the watermelon, remove the skin and seeds, and slice; peel the sugarcane and chop it into small pieces. Put both ingredients in a juicer, add rock sugar, and drink daily. This remedy has the following uses: cooling, diuretic, strengthening the kidneys, and detoxifying alcohol.

Treatment of diabetes:60g watermelon rind, 15g wolfberry, 12g pollen, 10g dried plum, boil to drink. Or 15g watermelon rind, 12g squash rind, 12g pollen; boil well, drink instead of tea every day.

Treatment of bloody dysentery:1 cup of watermelon juice, mix with brown sugar, drink 3 times a day.

Burn treatment:Dry watermelon rind, grind into powder, mix with sesame oil and apply.

Cooling and detoxifying:150g watermelon rind, 50g bitter melon, 50g squash. Peel off the green skin of the watermelon rind, cut into pieces; peel the bitter melon and squash, remove the seeds, then cut into pieces. Put all in a juicer to extract the juice, you can add a little rock sugar, dissolve and use as a soft drink. This medicine has the following uses: clearing heat, relieving thirst; very good as a summer drink, especially for people with acne, obesity...

Cure fatigue, loss of appetite:1kg watermelon, 25g Platycodon grandiflorum (chopped), 100g rock sugar, 100g rice. Cook porridge to eat. Use for 7 consecutive days when hot, tired, or have loss of appetite.

Treatment of prickly heat in children:Soak 1 watermelon in cold water, after 1 hour, crush the rind to rub and bathe children with prickly heat.

Treatment of high blood pressure:Dry 30g watermelon rind in the sun, 15g cassia seeds. Boil the water and drink it instead of tea every day. This remedy is effective in supporting the treatment of high blood pressure.

Treatment of heatstroke and high fever:20g watermelon rind, 10g bamboo leaves, 500ml water, boil for 15 minutes, divide into 3 times to drink during the day.

Edema due to acute nephritis:Fresh cogon root, watermelon rind each 40g, mung bean 12g, red bean 20g, boil to get water to drink.

Fatigue, loss of appetite:Cook 1kg watermelon, 25g Platycodon grandiflorum, 100g each of rock sugar and rice into porridge. Use continuously for 7 days to help relieve fatigue and loss of appetite on hot summer days.

Cough with phlegm:Use peeled watermelon seeds and eat them raw, or take 20g of watermelon seeds, boil them in concentrated water and drink.

Chronic cough:Crushed watermelon seeds, peanuts, each 15g, rose 1.5g, rock sugar 30g, boil to get water to drink instead of tea.

Polymenorrhea(heavy menstruation): Use 9g of watermelon seeds, crush, drink with water, twice daily.

Vomiting blood:Use 50g of watermelon seeds, boil well, remove the residue, drink the water, can add a little sugar.

Acute cystitis:30 - 50g watermelon seeds, decoct and drink.

Be careful not to eat too much at once or too many times a day, especially for those with weak spleen and stomach, or with frequent stomach aches and indigestion. Do not eat unripe watermelons that have been left too long and are bruised.