In Traditional Chinese Medicine, watermelon rind is known as "Xigua Cui Yi" and is a valuable remedy for clearing heat, relieving summer heat, promoting fluid production, and quenching thirst.
Drying the watermelon rind and grinding it into a powder for external application can treat mouth sores.
Watermelon rind relieves summer heat and clears heat, stimulates the appetite and promotes fluid production. It contains little sugar and is suitable for consumption by people of all ages.
1. Relieving summer heat and promoting urination
Cut the watermelon rind, with its outer hard skin removed, into small pieces or strips. Boil in water, add tomatoes, eggs, and seasonings. Drink the soup and eat the rind.
2. Summer acne
Boil 100 grams of mung beans in 1500 ml of water. After 10 minutes, remove the mung beans. Add 500 grams of washed watermelon rind (do not peel the outer skin) and boil again. Let it cool after boiling.
Drink the soup several times a day.
In this formula, mung beans are sweet and cool, able to reduce swelling, promote qi descent, clear heat, and detoxify. Watermelon rind is sweet and cold, able to clear summer heat, and relieve vexation and thirst.
3. Strengthening the spleen and relieving summer heat
Decoct 100 grams of fresh watermelon rind and 10 jujubes together. Drink it daily as a tea.
4. Summer heat damaging the lungs, with symptoms of fever, thirst, dry cough with no sputum, or constipation
Wash 50 grams each of fresh hyacinth bean and Hedyotis diffusa, and 60 grams of fresh lotus leaf. Wash and cut 200 grams of jellyfish, 500 grams of watermelon rind, and 250 grams of loofah. Place all ingredients into a clay pot, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for 1 hour. Season and drink the soup, eating the jellyfish. One dose per day.
5. Enhancing yang
Shred the watermelon rind, blanch it in boiling water, then remove. Mix with cooked chicken shreds and lean pork shreds and eat with seasonings.