Cantaloupe is used to treat jaundice and cirrhosis.

Watermelon is a type of gourd. According to traditional Chinese medicine, it has a sweet taste, a cooling nature, and acts on the heart and stomach meridians. Its effects include cooling, quenching thirst, and promoting urination.

Pink melon. (Illustrative image)

Cantaloupe is also rich in medicinal properties, with the fruit being the main part used for medicinal purposes. In addition, the stem and young leaves are also used as medicine. For reference and to help you apply these remedies effectively when needed, here are some medicinal dishes made from cantaloupe.

* Relieves heat, quenches thirst, lowers fever, and reduces inflammation:Eat raw cantaloupe every day.

* Treating scalp fungus:Take the young leaves of the watermelon plant, crush them, and apply them to the fungal infection on the scalp 2-3 times a day. This is highly effective.

* Facial skin care, acne treatment:Applying watermelon rind to the face daily protects and beautifies the skin, and helps treat acne.

* Induce vomiting, detoxify:Take the dried stems of the watermelon, grind them into a powder, mix with red beans, add 9g of fermented tofu, and boil everything together to make a decoction for drinking.

* Treating chronic rhinitis:Take the powder from the stem of a cantaloupe, use a straw to blow it into your nose, 2-3 times a day.

* Preventing infectious hepatitis:Soak 5% of a cantaloupe in water. Drink 10ml twice a day.

* Treatment for constipation:Eating one cantaloupe every day can help promote bowel movements, relieve constipation, and improve bowel function.

* Treats burning sensation during urination and dysentery:Take the water in which you soaked the watermelons, eat a few of them, and you will recover from your illness.

* Dishes that nourish the spleen and stomach, and increase blood circulation (beneficial for nourishing the spleen and stomach, increasing blood circulation, compensating for deficiencies, and supporting the treatment of weakness, fatigue, poor appetite, anemia, and bloody dysentery):

Ingredients: 500g of crucian carp meat (sliced), 100g of cantaloupe, 150g of winter bamboo shoots, 2 chicken eggs. Also, salt, MSG, spices, rice wine, white sugar, sesame oil, peanut oil, broth, starch, spring onion, ginger, each in sufficient quantity.

Preparation: Scale the crucian carp, cut it into thick slices, then arrange them in a ladder-like shape and cut them into thick strips. Cut the watermelon into strips and soak them in warm water. Cut the winter bamboo shoots, ginger, and onions into strips, and remove the yolks from the eggs.

The fish strips are mixed thoroughly with egg whites, salt, starch, and water. In a small bowl, add rice wine and spices; stir in salt, white sugar, water, starch, and MSG to form a white sauce, which is then set aside.

Heat a pan with a little oil to grease it, then add more oil. Once the oil is hot, add the shredded fish and stir-fry briefly. Transfer to a slotted spoon. Keeping the heat on, add the pickled cucumber and bamboo shoots, stir-fry briefly, then add the shredded fish along with the coconut milk and scallions. Stir well, drizzle with sesame oil, and serve on a plate. Eat as is or with rice.

* Treatment of jaundice, infectious dermatitis, and cirrhosis:

The dried melon is then ground into a fine powder. Take 0.1g and divide it into 6 equal parts. First, inhale deeply through both nostrils with 2 parts. After about 40 minutes, clean the nasal cavity and inhale another 2 parts. After another 40 minutes, inhale the remaining 2 parts. Continue this process, inhaling a total of 0.4g per treatment.

For chronic hepatitis, just two inhalations are usually sufficient, while cirrhosis requires 3-5 courses. After inhalation, a large amount of yellowish fluid may flow out from both sides of the nasal cavity, up to 1,000ml each time. Therefore, each time the patient inhales the medication, they must tilt their head forward to allow the fluid to drain into a prepared basin, preventing it from flowing down the throat and being swallowed.

Note: People with weak spleen and stomach, bloating, and loose stools should not eat cantaloupe or use it as a medicinal remedy.

According to Agriculture - NT