1. Pear Skin
Pear skin is a Chinese herbal medicine with high medicinal value, which can clear the heart and moisten the lungs, reduce fire and promote fluid production. Wash and chop the pear skin, add rock sugar and stew it in water to drink to treat cough. Adding a little pear skin when making homemade pickles can make the pickles crispier and more delicious.
2. Apple Skin
Apple skin has an astringent effect. Decocting it into a soup or steeping it as tea can treat excessive stomach acid and phlegm. Drying it, grinding it into powder, and taking it on an empty stomach (2-3 times daily) has a certain therapeutic effect on chronic diarrhea, neurotic colitis, and hypertension. Additionally, mashing a handful of fresh apple skin into a paste and applying it to a cloth to scrub bathtubs, washbasins, and toilets can restore their original shine.
3. Pomelo Skin
It can regulate qi, resolve phlegm, stop coughing, and relieve asthma. Chop one pomelo skin, add appropriate honey or malt sugar and steam until soft, then add a small amount of hot yellow wine. Take one spoonful orally in the morning and evening to treat cough and asthma in the elderly. Drinking pomelo skin decoction can resolve phlegm, aid digestion, relieve asthma, and stop hernia pain. Furthermore, placing pomelo skin in the kitchen cabinet or refrigerator can remove odors.
4. Banana Skin
Banana skin contains bananin, which can treat skin itching caused by fungal and bacterial infections. Bananin also has the effects of quenching thirst, moistening the lungs and intestines, promoting blood circulation, and enriching essence. Mashing banana skin and adding ginger juice can reduce inflammation and relieve pain. Rubbing hands and feet with banana skin can prevent and chapped skin and frostbite. In addition, it can also treat hypertension and prevent cerebral hemorrhage. Drying banana skin and grinding it into powder is also an excellent beauty product for skin protection. Moreover, repeatedly rubbing leather shoes with banana skin can remove stains from the upper. Then applying shoe polish can instantly make your shoes shine.
5. Winter Melon Skin
Winter melon skin has the effects of relieving summer heat, strengthening the spleen, and promoting urination. It can be used for edema, abdominal distension, and dysuria caused by kidney disease, lung disease, and heart disease. Washing feet with a decoction of winter melon skin can treat both athlete's foot and foot odor, killing two birds with one stone.
6. Orange Skin
Washing and steaming orange skin with sugar water to drink has the function of regulating qi, clearing the lungs, removing dampness, stopping cough, and resolving phlegm. In addition, orange skin contains alkaline substances. Dipping it in some salt can wipe away stains from ceramic, enamel, and aluminum-iron cookware and tableware. Orange skin also contains more aromatic substances. Placing a small amount in the refrigerator can remove odors. Adding a little orange skin to homemade organic fertilizer can prevent the fertilizer liquid from smelling bad.
7. Watermelon Skin
The effect of watermelon skin is superior to the pulp. In traditional Chinese medicine, the skin is called "Xigua Cuiyi" (watermelon green rind), which has the effects of clearing heat and relieving summer heat, purging fire and eliminating vexation, and lowering blood pressure. It has a certain therapeutic effect on anemia, dry throat, chapped lips, as well as patients with cystitis, ascites, and nephritis. Furthermore, because watermelon skin contains vitamins C and E, rubbing it on the skin or mashing it into a paste and applying it to the skin, then washing it off with water after 10-15 minutes, has the effects of nourishing, softening, and beautifying the skin, and preventing and treating heat boils.
8. Cucumber Skin
Cucumber skin can detoxify. Cucumber skin contains more cucurbitacin, which is the essence of cucumber's nutrition. Eating cucumbers with their skin not only allows for full absorption of vitamin C but also helps the body detoxify effectively. In addition, cucumber skin also has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects.
9. Tomato Skin
Tomato skin prevents cancer. Lycopene is the strongest natural antioxidant discovered so far, which can prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases, improve the body's immunity, and prevent cancer. It is most abundant in the tomato skin. In addition, tomato skin also helps maintain intestinal health. Therefore, eating tomatoes with their skin is the most nutritious.
10. Eggplant Skin
Eggplant is a dietary delicacy for patients with cardiovascular diseases, but most of its nutrients are hidden in the skin. Peeling the eggplant not only reduces its health value but also causes the iron in it to oxidize when exposed to air, which can easily turn black and affect the body's absorption of iron.