My son just turned 8 years old this year. He has been staying in our rural hometown with his grandparents for the past few days. His grandparents have planted many watermelons, and during the evening when it’s cool, he always enjoys eating some watermelon to cool down. However, after sleeping at night, the child kept wetting the bed. For three consecutive nights, without exception, it can be said to be very effective, so now we resolutely don’t allow him to eat at night.
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Speaking of watermelon, it is the most popular seasonal fruit in summer. It is sweet, juicy, refreshing, and the most common fruit for cooling off in our daily lives. However, many people do not know that it is also known as the “king of melons” with considerable medicinal value. In the book “Shi Wu Ben Cao” by the Ming Dynasty medical scholar Wang Ying, he specifically pointed out that watermelon has a cooling nature and is known as the “natural White Tiger Soup.” “White Tiger Soup” is a famous prescription created by the medical sage Zhang Zhongjing in the late Eastern Han Dynasty for treating lung and stomach heat, with a long history of extensive clinical application. Comparing watermelon to “natural White Tiger Soup” indicates its remarkable cooling and heat relieving effects, which can dispel the summer heat and dampness.
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Medical books record that watermelon has a sweet taste, a cooling nature, can enter the lung meridian, spleen meridian, and bladder meridian, and is best at clearing stomach fire, promoting urination, and eliminating heat toxins. Therefore, friends may as well eat a little every day, especially in hot weather or when there is heavy humidity in summer. Enjoying a few sweet and juicy watermelon slices, or drinking a cup of watermelon juice can help achieve the purpose of cooling and eliminating dampness. As mentioned earlier, the child wets the bed easily at night after eating watermelon, indicating the effectiveness of promoting urination and eliminating heat toxins. There are many people who have experienced this.
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Many people usually discard watermelon rinds when eating watermelon, but in some places, people keep the watermelon rinds, stir-fry them and eat as a dish. In fact, the entire watermelon is valuable, even the watermelon rind is known as “watermelon jade clothing” and has high value. Therefore, when eating watermelon, do not throw away the rind, it can be used in cooking or brewed for tea. For instance, “watermelon rind duck soup” is quite good.
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While eating watermelon, you can also use watermelon juice to wipe your face or cut the white part of the watermelon into thin slices and apply them to the face for 15 minutes to maintain the skin’s freshness, smoothness, whiteness, and health.
Watermelon has many benefits, but since it is a sweet and cold fruit, it is beneficial in moderation, excess consumption is not beneficial. The daily consumption should not exceed 1000 grams per person to avoid diluting stomach acid with excessive water content, which can lead to indigestion. Additionally,
In the hot summer, watermelon is indispensable for cooling off. If you have a different opinion about watermelon, feel free to leave a comment in the comment section, and let’s discuss together.
