What is the medicinal value of winter melon seeds

Most people just throw away the seeds inside winter melon when cooking it. Few people know that winter melon seeds are rich in nutrients. As a cold food, winter melon seeds have the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying. They are also very effective in treating lung diseases and eliminating phlegm in the throat. At the same time, winter melon seeds have many other medicinal values, which will be explained below.

Moistens the lungs, resolves phlegm, eliminates carbuncle and promotes diuresis. It is used to treat cough due to phlegm and heat, lung abscess, intestinal abscess, gonorrhea, edema, athlete's foot, hemorrhoids, and alcohol acne on the nose and face.

① "Ben Jing": tonifies Qi.

② "Bie Lu": It indicates worry, dissatisfaction and unhappiness.

③ Cui Yuxi's "Food Classic": It benefits the urinary channels and removes fresh water.

④ "Bencao Gangmu" (Bencao Gangmu): removes skin impurities and dark spots, moisturizes the skin.

⑤ "Compendium of Materia Medica": Treats intestinal abscess.

⑥ "Bencao Jingshu": It can stimulate appetite and wake up the eyes.

⑦ "Bencao Shu": It is mainly used to treat heat accumulation in the heart meridian, painful urination, and wine residue on the nose and face like numbness, pain, and discharge of yellow water.

⑧ "Bencao Congxin": Nourishes the liver and improves eyesight.

⑨ "Bencao Shu Gouyuan": It is used to treat abdominal masses, ruptured pus and blood, and is the most important medicine for any congestion in the intestines and stomach.

⑩ Chen Nianzu: It can moisten the lungs and eliminate phlegm, and also benefit the stomach.

⑾ "Shandong Traditional Chinese Medicine": Treats nephritis, urethritis, dysuria, athlete's foot, and edema.

⑿ "Illustrated Guide to Chinese Medicinal Plants": Used to treat swollen and painful hemorrhoids, or for washing.

【Additional prescription】：

① Treat cough with slight fever, irritability, and scales in the chest, which is lung abscess: reed stems (cut, 2 liters, boil with 2 dou of water to get 5 liters and remove the dregs), half a liter of coix seeds, 30 peach kernels, and half a liter of melon slices (now mostly winter melon seeds). Chop the above four ingredients into small pieces, boil them in reed juice and take two liters. Take one liter and you will vomit pus-like things. (Qianjin Weijing Decoction from "Golden Chamber")

②For the treatment of intestinal abscess with pus not yet formed, swelling and distension in the lower abdomen, pain upon pressing, as if with stranguria, spontaneous urination, frequent fever, spontaneous sweating, aversion to cold, and a slow and tight pulse: 4 liang of rhubarb, 1 liang of peony bark, 50 peach kernels, half a catty of melon seeds, and 3 he of Glauber's salt. Take the above five ingredients, add six liters of water, boil and take out one liter, remove the residue, add Glauber's salt; boil again and drink it all at once. If there is pus, purge it immediately; if there is no pus, purge blood. (Da Huang Mu Dan Tang from "Jingui Yaolue")

③To treat leucorrhea in men and leucorrhea in women: stir-fry old winter melon seeds into powder. Take 5 qian of it with rice water on an empty stomach. (Emergency Remedies)

④ Treat persistent thirst and frequent urination: 2 liang each of dried wax gourd seeds, Ophiopogon japonicus and Coptis chinensis. Decoction in water and drink. Extract from Yuan Fang

⑤ Treat men's five kinds of fatigue and seven kinds of injuries, and improve eyesight: Put 7 liters of white melon seeds in a silk bag, stir in boiling water three times, and dry it quickly; soak it in 5 liters of vinegar overnight, and dry it quickly; sieve it. Take a small amount with wine, three times a day. (Qianjin Fang)

After understanding the medicinal value of winter melon seeds, we must make full use of this food to treat our own diseases in our daily lives based on the medicinal value of winter melon seeds. For some patients whose symptoms such as cough and getting angry are not very serious, winter melon seeds can be used for treatment. At the same time, when using winter melon seeds, it is best to choose those with full kernels, so that the treatment effect will be more obvious.