“Watermelon Rind” --- Five Major Benefits of Watermelon Skin
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, watermelon skin is called "Xigua Cui Yi" (Watermelon Green Jacket) and is a valuable remedy for clearing heat, relieving summer heat, promoting fluid production, and quenching thirst. Drying the watermelon skin and grinding it into a powder for external application can treat mouth sores. Watermelon skin relieves summer heat and clears heat, whets the appetite and promotes fluid production. It contains little sugar and is suitable for all people to eat.
1. Relieves summer heat and promotes urination: Cut the watermelon rind, with the outer hard skin removed, into small pieces or strips. Boil them in water, add tomatoes, eggs, and seasonings, and drink the soup while eating the rind.
2. Summer acne: Boil 100 grams of mung beans in 1500 ml of water. After boiling for 10 minutes, remove the mung beans. Add 500 grams of washed watermelon rind (no need to peel the outer skin) and cook again. Let it cool after boiling. Drink the soup several times a day. In this formula, mung beans are sweet and cool, which can reduce swelling, lower qi, clear heat, and detoxify; watermelon rind is sweet and cold, which can clear summer heat, relieve vexation, and quench thirst.
3. Strengthens the spleen and relieves summer heat: Decoct 100 grams of fresh watermelon rind and 10 red dates together. Drink the decoction as tea daily.
4. Summer heat injuring the lungs, with symptoms of body heat, 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 200 grams of jellyfish and 500 grams of watermelon rind, and 250 grams of loofah, cut them into pieces. Put 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 while eating the jellyfish. Take one dose daily.
5. Enhances yang energy: Shred the watermelon rind, blanch it in boiling water, then remove. Mix with cooked shredded chicken and shredded pork, add seasonings, and eat.