From Compendium of Materia Medica: There are many kinds of melons in northern China. When planted in February and March, plants grow on vines with large leaves, which bloom in May and June and mature in June and July. Their species are very complicated, including long clusters, sharp ones, flat ones, big ones, small ones, twisted ones, angular ones, blue and green colors, yellow spots, or ecliptic ones. Sweet melon seeds are exposed outside, and can be used as fruit food when they are cracked and taken for kernel.
food therapy
Wax gourd is sweet, cold and nontoxic, and enters the heart and stomach.
Has the effects of clearing away heat, relieving summer heat, relieving restlessness, quenching thirst and inducing diuresis.
Can be used for the treatment of chest and diaphragm fullness, anorexia, vexation and thirst, heat cystitis, and summer-heat dysuria.
Pharmacological value
Taste: Hami melon is sweet, cold and non-toxic; Melon is bitter, cold and poisonous.
Meridian tropism: entering the stomach, lungs and large intestine.
Efficacy: wax gourd can clear away heat, relieve summer heat and quench thirst; Sweet melon seeds clear away heat, detoxify and induce diuresis; The stem of melon can induce vomiting of sputum and toxic food in chest and diaphragm, or be used as external medicine.
Indications: winter melon cures summer heat and polydipsia; Melon seeds treat intestinal carbuncle and lung carbuncle; Cucumber stems are used externally to treat acute icteric infectious hepatitis, rhinitis, and atrophic nose.
Related population
The general population can eat it.
1. In summer, people with heat, polydipsia, mouth and nose sores and heatstroke are especially suitable for eating.
2. Bleeding, asthenia, deficiency of the spleen and stomach, abdominal distension and loose stool are not suitable for eating.
manufacture order
Used for constipation: 500 grams of fresh wax gourd, every morning and evening 1 time.
Prescription reference
1. Wash the cantaloupe and eat it at will to relieve summer heat.
2. 30 grams of fragrant melon seeds, add appropriate amount of sugar, mash and grind, and take it with warm water to cure intestinal carbuncle and lung carbuncle.
3. Sweet melon seeds 15g, stir-fried whole angelica 30g, snake slough 3g, dried in the sun and ground into powder, each time 10g, three times a day, to treat intestinal carbuncle (appendicitis).
4. Cucumber leaves are mashed and applied to the affected area to treat tinea capitis.
5. The combustibility of cantaloupe pedicel can be ground into powder or used together with asarum powder. Blow a little into the nose three times a day to treat chronic hypertrophic rhinitis and nasal cavity collapse.
6. Dry and grind the cantaloupe pedicel, and use 0. Every time1g. First, inhale deeply from two nostrils with one part. After about 40 minutes, clean the nasal cavity, then inhale another part, and then finish the last part every 40 minutes. Seven days later, 0. Inhale in the same way 1 g, 0. 4 g is a course of treatment for infectious hepatitis and liver cirrhosis with or without jaundice. Generally, chronic hepatitis can be treated for two courses; If it's cirrhosis, it takes three to five courses of treatment. After taking the medicine, a large amount of yellow water flows out of the nasal cavity, which can reach 100 ml each time. When taking medicine, the patient's head must lean forward to make yellow water drip out, and don't swallow it to avoid diarrhea. Sometimes there will be headache, chills, fever, cold-like symptoms, or aggravation of liver and spleen pain, and such symptoms will naturally disappear after one day.
Various exhibitions
1. Herbal Yi Yan: Melon, if you eat too much, you will have diarrhea, so it will also reduce yang.
2. "Dietotherapy Materia Medica": thirst, qi, heat, urine, triple energizer.
3. "Jia you Ben Cao": the main nose and mouth sore.
4. "southern Yunnan materia medica": treating rheumatism and numbness and limb pain.
-Collection of plant data in the field-Chinese name cucumimelo alias Cucurbitaceae collection time 2065438+August 6, 2000 Collection place Liu Huijuan, collector of Oroqen Autonomous Banner in Hulunbeier League, Inner Mongolia, collected sample seeds, imported material seeds, life-style herbaceous vines, fields in ecological environment, flat terrain, communities and main accompanying plants, cultivated flowers, yellow seeds, gray stems, purple flowers, and green flowers.