In daily life, people are accustomed to discarding the peels and skins of fruits and vegetables, unaware that they are a "panacea" for preventing and treating diseases, and have excellent effects on health preservation and disease prevention.
Watermelon Peel: Relieves summer heat, quenches thirst, and clears heat and toxins. Watermelon peel is superior to the flesh. Traditional Chinese medicine uses watermelon peel and juice to make "Xigua Cuiyi" (Watermelon Rind), which has effects such as clearing heat and relieving summer heat, purging fire and eliminating vexation, and lowering blood pressure. It also has certain therapeutic effects on anemia, dry throat, and chapped lips.
Winter Melon Peel: Has the effects of relieving summer heat, strengthening the spleen, and promoting diuresis. It can be used to treat edema, abdominal distension, and difficult urination caused by kidney disease, lung disease, or heart disease. Decocting winter melon peel into a soup to wash the feet can treat both athlete's foot and foot odor, killing two birds with one stone.
Banana Peel: Banana peel contains effective ingredients that inhibit fungi and bacteria—bananin. It can treat pruritus caused by fungal infections and also has the effects of moistening the lungs and intestines, activating blood circulation, and nourishing the essence. Mashing a banana peel and adding ginger juice can reduce inflammation and relieve pain. Rubbing the hands and feet with a banana peel can prevent and chilblains. In addition, dried and powdered banana peel is also a good beauty product.
Apple Peel: Has an astringent effect. Taking 30 grams of fresh apple peel to make a decoction or soak it in tea for drinking can treat excessive stomach acid and phlegm. Drying the apple peel, grinding it into powder, and taking 15 grams on an empty stomach, 2-3 times a day, has certain therapeutic effects on chronic diarrhea, neurotic colitis, and high blood pressure.
Pear Peel: Is cold in nature and sour in taste. It can cool the heart and moisten the lungs, clear fire and resolve phlegm. Taking a decoction of 30 grams of pear peel can clear the heart and moisten the lungs, relieve cough and resolve phlegm, and can treat excessive phlegm and cough. Mashing the pear peel into a paste and applying it externally to the affected area can treat carbuncles and swelling. Drinking a frequent decoction of fresh pear peel can detoxify and reduce swelling.
Pomelo Peel: Can regulate qi, transform phlegm, stop cough, and relieve asthma. Using one pomelo peel, remove the inner pulp, crush it, and steam it with an appropriate amount of honey and malt sugar. Take it orally with a small amount of hot yellow rice wine, once in the morning and once at night, one spoonful each time, to treat cough and asthma in the elderly. It is also possible to take a decoction of 9 grams of pomelo peel, which can transform phlegm, promote digestion, relieve asthma, and stop hernia pain.
Pomegranate Peel: According to "Compendium of Materia Medica", the peel of the pomegranate fruit can be used as medicine, mainly to treat dysentery with both bloody and watery stools, bleeding, and prolapse of the rectum.
Tangerine Peel (Dried Tangerine Peel): Has the effects of regulating qi and transforming phlegm, strengthening the spleen and removing dampness. It can also lower blood pressure. Tangerine peel can treat cough with excessive phlegm, chest tightness, abdominal distension, nausea, and vomiting. The flavonoid glycosides contained in tangerine peel can dilate the coronary arteries and increase coronary blood flow.