In ancient times, melon wilting was used, and the skin and kernel were not divided, and Zhang Zhongjing's book was counted in pieces.
Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" uses a lot of melon recipes, most of which are all-used.
In ancient times, there were people who fried melon wilts and took oil to light lamps.
The ancients picked roots in autumn and winter, peeled and cut off, soaked in water, changed water frequently, took out and pounded into pulp in four or five days, filtered powder, and used it to cook porridge.
It is recorded in sun simiao's "Qianjin Fang" of the Tang Dynasty and Gao Lian's "Eight Signatures of Zunsheng" of the Ming Dynasty.
Clear heat and quench thirst, used for fever and injury, thirst and drinking, lung heat and dry cough.
The melon wilt is spherical or broadly rounded, 7 to 15 cm long and 6 to 10 cm in diameter.
The surface is orange-red or orange-yellow, wrinkled or smooth, with rounded peduncle remnants at the apex, slightly pointed at the base, and residual fruit stems. Weight varies. The texture is brittle, easy to break, the inner surface is yellowish white, with reddish-yellow silk, and the fruit is orange-yellow, viscous, and adheres to most seeds in clumps. It has caramel gas and has a slightly sour and sweet taste.
"Compendium of Materia Medica": "Moisturize the lungs, reduce fire, cure cough, clean sputum knots, and sharpen the throat." ”
"Materia Medica": "Chestnut is solid, thick and fat, so hot and dry phlegm is the treatment agent." If you use cold phlegm, wet phlegm, phlegm caused by qi deficiency, and phlegm accumulated by diet, it is useless and harmful. ”
Melon can be used alone, and is often used with Sichuan shellfish, smallpox pollen, platycodon, half summer, reed root, houttuynia cordata, etc., and the effect of clearing the lungs and suppressing cough is better.
The two medicines of melon and shellfish can clear sputum fever and open knots. Melon is biased towards moisturizing the lungs, mother-in-law is biased towards opening up depression and clearing heat, and combined use clears the lungs and dissolves phlegm and opens the chest and scatters knots.
Melon is compatible with half summer, melon moisturizes the lungs and broad chest, and half summer descends to reverse phlegm. The two are equipped with the effect of reducing the reverse and eliminating phlegm, and the loose knots of the broad chest, such as the white half-summer soup of melon and gourd.
Guapu is a long vine plant, dug out of the roots and scraped off the skin, and the inside is pollen. Gualang can also be written as Chestnut Tower.
Pollen, sweet taste, slightly bitter, slightly acidic, slightly cold, can clear the heat of the lungs and stomach, can dissolve phlegm, quench thirst, generate jin, reduce swelling and loosen knots.
The knot is related to heat, smallpox pollen can clear the heat and dissipate the knot, but also can dissolve the phlegm, many swellings and knots are caused by phlegm.
Remove the sputum and heat, and the swelling and knots will naturally be gone.
Pollen is the medicine that goes down because it is the root, and the root usually goes down.
Therefore, pollen is often used when there is phlegm under the scorch.
Pollen is white, and white can enter the lungs. Can moisten the lungs, it goes down from the lungs, the lungs and the large intestine, pollen through the large intestine, can deflate, deflation is related to its function of falling, can dissolve phlegm, can put the phlegm in the lungs all the way down, and finally let the phlegm out of the large intestine, is a good medicine for phlegm.
Melon seeds taste moist, nourishing breast milk, nourishing beauty, stomach and lungs, laxative, pressure, wide chest, peace of mind, antibacterial and strong body, the proliferation of isolated chorionic carcinoma cells and HIV has a strong inhibitory effect.
Modern medical research proves that melon seeds contain 16.8% unsaturated fatty acids, 5.46% protein, and contain 17 kinds of amino acids, triposides, a variety of vitamins and calcium, iron, zinc, selenium and other 16 kinds of trace elements.
Eating melon seeds, there is a role in expanding the coronary artery of the heart, increasing the flow of coronary arteries, has a significant protective effect on acute myocardial ischemia, has a strong inhibitory effect on the proliferation of isolated chorionic carcinoma cells and HIV, has a certain therapeutic effect on diabetes, has an auxiliary effect on hypertension, high blood lipids, high cholesterol, can improve the immune function of the body, and has the effect of slimming and beauty.