The wonderful uses of melon

(Baonghean.vn) - Not only does it cool down the hot summer, melon also has many unexpected uses that housewives need to know.

Not only is it a delicious dish, melon also has wonderful effects on health. According to Oriental medicine, melon has a sweet taste, cool properties, the effect of quenching thirst, eliminating annoyance, clearing the air, diuretic, on hot summer days eating melon can prevent heatstroke.

Watermelon seeds have a sweet taste and cool properties, regulate the stomach, clear the lungs, laxative, treat blood and pus accumulation in the stomach and intestines, cure dry cough or constipation...

Melon flowers cure hiccups, heart pain... and leaves are effective in treating amenorrhea in women.

Melon stalks are bitter, cold, toxic, have the effect of causing vomiting and clearing urination, detoxifying, treating fever, malaria...

In addition, cantaloupe has the advantage of being 95% water, low in calories, and low in sugar. These are features that make it a good food for people who want to lose weight and are obese. You can use cantaloupe smoothies with a little sugar or combine cantaloupe smoothies with dragon fruit for the best results.

Medicinal recipes 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 the lotus seeds are cooked, then add sugar and mix well until the sugar is completely dissolved. Eat once a day.

- Cure constipation: 10g of melon seeds, 30g of sweet potato, 10g of brown sugar. Crush the melon seeds and sweet potato, then add them to 250ml of water and simmer. When the potato is cooked, add sugar and mix well. Should be eaten early in the morning, when just waking up, eat continuously for 5 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 root, 20g of licorice. Grind all of them into fine powder and drink with wine, 8g each time, or boil to drink.

- Induce vomiting, cure fever, malaria: 4-8g of melon stem, boil to get water to drink, vomit phlegm and cure the disease.

- Anti-itch, cure hives: Boil melon leaves to get water for bathing.

- Treats acne and pigmentation, smoothens skin: Wash 250g of cantaloupe and jujube each, peel and remove seeds, add 150g of boiled carrots, mash everything until smooth, divide into 2 meals a day. The medicine has the effect of moistening the lungs, strengthening the spleen, and nourishing the skin very well.

- Cure knee pain: 100g of melon seeds, soak in a little white wine, after 10 days take out and crush, eat 10g each time, drink a little more wine, 3 times a day. The medicine has the effect of expelling wind and activating blood circulation.

- 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 with decoction of red beans (black bean decoction) for a stronger detoxifying effect. Note that when drinking this medicine, it will have the effect of causing vomiting, helping the patient vomit out all the poison remaining in the stomach, so if you take the dose as mentioned above and do not see vomiting, you can increase the dose a little bit and it will be effective. Or use crushed melon stem, squeeze out the juice to drink, it will also be effective.

Note:

People with weak spleen and stomach, bloating and loose stools should not eat this type of melon. People with bleeding and weak constitution should not drink medicinal juice made from melon stems.

How to choose delicious melon:

A good melon has a little crack on the skin.

- According to the experience of gourmet housewives, delicious melons are those that have a little crack on the skin. Do not choose melons with too many cracks because this can be a favorable environment for flies and mosquitoes to thrive.

- In addition, a good melon has a thin layer of fur on its skin and a pleasant aroma. If the melon is soaked in chemicals, this aroma will disappear.

- You should choose melons with yellow flesh.

Thanh Thuy

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