The melon, from the name of it, seems to be the melon of the winter. According to legend, in the Tang dynasty, there was a county official who visited the countryside in the winter, and an old farmer stored the winter melon and served it. He was proud on the dinner table. He said: “Winter out of melons is worthy of the name.†Later people laughed at him: “Winter melon The surname is summer, and milk is not necessarily the mother."
Why is the melon produced in the summer named after the melon? This is because at the time of melon ripening, there is a layer of white powder on the surface, which is like the hoarfrost that ends in winter. It is also for this reason that the melon is also called a white melon. Melon is a light food that people love to eat. Wang Ang, a famous doctor in the Qing Dynasty, praised it and said: “Melon melon, daily food, is especially pleasant in all melons.†There are many ways to eat wax gourd. Food. Shrimp winter melon, light and delicious, is very popular. Made of tender winter melon and soft-shelled turtle skirts made of melon soup skirt, both nutritious and delicious, as early as the Song Dynasty Jingzhou dish.
Melon as a diet food since ancient times. Well-known dietary expert Meng Wei said it clearly: "If you are decent, you can eat long-term food. If you want to get fat, you must not eat." Melon is a beauty food. As early as in the "Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing" pointed out that the melon "is pleasing to the eye, good color." "Herbal Materia Medica" also said: "Melon melon is so smooth and clean as jade, can be used in the face of fat." Li Shizhen in "Compendium of Materia Medica" also talks about using the melon soup to wash your face and take a shower. The folk also mixes the savory melon kernel with honey and rubs the face to moisturize the skin and treat freckles.
Melon is a cool food, fire people should eat, cold people are unfit for human consumption. "Herbal Materia Medica," said: "The heat of the food is good, the thin cold food." "Ben Cao Jing Shu" also said: "If the cold kidney cold, chronic illness slippery, they should not eat." Winter melon is cool, A lot of water, but also contains a variety of vitamins and trace elements. With winter melon and mung bean soup, both rich and nutritious, but also a good effect of Jieshu. Melon and mung bean can both clear away heat and detoxify, and eating melon mung bean soup can also prevent lice and sores. Summer dermatitis and lice itch, can be used outside the rubbing slices of wax gourd. Acne pain, but also can be used outside the basin to wash the water gourd Jianshui.
Another important use of wax gourd is to treat edema. Because it is both nutritious, diuretic, and contains very little sodium, it is an ideal vegetable for edema patients.
Chronic nephritis edema, can be used to cook skin melon 250 grams sooner or later; such as 60 grams of melon skin, 30 grams of corn, Rhizoma Imperatae 30 grams of decoction, swelling better. Weak, take a squid, add 500 grams of wax gourd, simmer stew food, to supplement deficiency swelling, the side caused by malnutrition caused by edema, is particularly appropriate. Cirrhosis of ascites, it is desirable a small melon, 120 grams of red beans, soup after Dunlan; or use a melon, roast on the fire, smashed with gauze filter to slag juice, 60 ml per serving, daily service 3 times. Pregnancy edema, it is also appropriate to eat melon, can be used melon Jiantang, free to drink it.
Why is the melon produced in the summer named after the melon? This is because at the time of melon ripening, there is a layer of white powder on the surface, which is like the hoarfrost that ends in winter. It is also for this reason that the melon is also called a white melon. Melon is a light food that people love to eat. Wang Ang, a famous doctor in the Qing Dynasty, praised it and said: “Melon melon, daily food, is especially pleasant in all melons.†There are many ways to eat wax gourd. Food. Shrimp winter melon, light and delicious, is very popular. Made of tender winter melon and soft-shelled turtle skirts made of melon soup skirt, both nutritious and delicious, as early as the Song Dynasty Jingzhou dish.
Melon as a diet food since ancient times. Well-known dietary expert Meng Wei said it clearly: "If you are decent, you can eat long-term food. If you want to get fat, you must not eat." Melon is a beauty food. As early as in the "Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing" pointed out that the melon "is pleasing to the eye, good color." "Herbal Materia Medica" also said: "Melon melon is so smooth and clean as jade, can be used in the face of fat." Li Shizhen in "Compendium of Materia Medica" also talks about using the melon soup to wash your face and take a shower. The folk also mixes the savory melon kernel with honey and rubs the face to moisturize the skin and treat freckles.
Melon is a cool food, fire people should eat, cold people are unfit for human consumption. "Herbal Materia Medica," said: "The heat of the food is good, the thin cold food." "Ben Cao Jing Shu" also said: "If the cold kidney cold, chronic illness slippery, they should not eat." Winter melon is cool, A lot of water, but also contains a variety of vitamins and trace elements. With winter melon and mung bean soup, both rich and nutritious, but also a good effect of Jieshu. Melon and mung bean can both clear away heat and detoxify, and eating melon mung bean soup can also prevent lice and sores. Summer dermatitis and lice itch, can be used outside the rubbing slices of wax gourd. Acne pain, but also can be used outside the basin to wash the water gourd Jianshui.
Another important use of wax gourd is to treat edema. Because it is both nutritious, diuretic, and contains very little sodium, it is an ideal vegetable for edema patients.
Chronic nephritis edema, can be used to cook skin melon 250 grams sooner or later; such as 60 grams of melon skin, 30 grams of corn, Rhizoma Imperatae 30 grams of decoction, swelling better. Weak, take a squid, add 500 grams of wax gourd, simmer stew food, to supplement deficiency swelling, the side caused by malnutrition caused by edema, is particularly appropriate. Cirrhosis of ascites, it is desirable a small melon, 120 grams of red beans, soup after Dunlan; or use a melon, roast on the fire, smashed with gauze filter to slag juice, 60 ml per serving, daily service 3 times. Pregnancy edema, it is also appropriate to eat melon, can be used melon Jiantang, free to drink it.