Eat These 4 Melons to Get Through Summer with Ease.

Summer has arrived as promised, along with the sweltering heat. How to get through the muggy summer? Four types of gourds will tell you.

1. Winter Melon.

Winter melon is cold in nature. Its flesh and pulp have effects such as promoting urination, clearing heat, resolving phlegm, and quenching thirst. It can also treat conditions like edema, phlegmatic wheezing, summer heat, and hemorrhoids. A soup made with winter melon, lotus leaves, and Job's tears can clear damp-heat. However, it is not suitable for those with a weak spleen and stomach, insufficient yang energy, or yin deficiency with emaciation.

Winter Melon with Small Whitebait

2. Luffa.In Traditional Chinese Medicine, luffa is considered cool in nature with a sweet taste. It has effects such as clearing heat, detoxifying, cooling blood to stop bleeding, unblocking meridians, promoting blood circulation, beautifying the skin, and anti-cancer. Long-term consumption or using luffa juice to wipe the face can make the skin smooth and delicate, with special effects against wrinkles and inflammation, as well as preventing and eliminating acne and melanin pigmentation. However, those who are chronically ill, have a weak spleen and stomach, or suffer from indigestion should eat it with caution.

Luffa with Fried Gluten Balls

3. Bitter Melon.

It contains momordicoside and bitter principles, giving it a unique bitter taste. It can relieve summer heat, clear the mind, and dispel stuffiness and heat. It is quite effective for conditions like stomach heat, damp-heat dysentery, vomiting, diarrhea, and hematuria. Bitter melon also helps control blood sugar and prevent diabetes, while also preventing fat absorption and aiding in weight loss. However, pregnant women should eat less bitter melon. Additionally, those with low blood pressure or blood sugar, or a weak spleen and stomach, should not eat too much of it.

Bitter Melon Salad with Thousand Island Dressing

4. Cucumber.

Cucurbitacin C found in cucumber can enhance the human body's immune function, achieving the goal of anti-tumor effects. Furthermore, this substance can also treat chronic and persistent hepatitis and has the effect of prolonging the survival period of patients with primary liver cancer.

Egg and Cucumber