After the beginning of autumn eat "three melon"

LiuShaoGui Hunan university of Chinese medicine first affiliated hospital

China's traditional Chinese medicine to

        Although the beginning of autumn has passed, but the heat is still not decrease, recommend all three kinds of melons vegetables, respectively is wax gourd, balsam pear and towel gourd.

        The highest water content of vegetable - white gourd

        Wax gourd, longer than the summer but named white gourd, because white gourd mature, the surface with a layer of white powder things, like winter knot rime so named. Wax gourd almost no fat and carbohydrate content is little also, so low heating value, belongs to the delicate sex food, water content as high as 96% above, because white gourd sex cool, can clear away heat good, diuresis aperient, help the body clear waste detoxification, even skin together to make soup, the effect is more apparent. Very suitable for hot and dry weather as edible plants.

        Wax gourd can nourishing the stomach fluids, diuresis line water, contains propyl alcohol diacid, can cause the body of starch, sugar into heat energy, and not turn to fat. Long feed can make the skin white like jade, bright and smooth, and can keep the body strong and handsome.

        Obese people, vitamin C, and the lack of pregnancy edema, kidney edema, beriberi, people with diabetes, especially applicable.

        But take tonic medicine should not be when food white gourd. The long illness or not the fire Yin deficiency of spleen and stomach and deficiency cold and loose stool diarrhoea person should eat carefully.

        The gentleman - vegetables balsam pear

        Bitter melon, also called LiangGua, is the summer used to clear heat to heat of vegetables. Bitter melon to squash meat, melon crumb bitter taste and gets its name. Bitter melon if boiled together with other food, fry, never put bitter to other food, it is "a gentleman's food" reputation.

        Bitter melon contains protein, fat, carbohydrate in melons vegetables content is higher, especially the content of vitamin C, every 100 grams is as high as 84 mg, gourd in the crown. Bitter melon also contained coarse fiber, carotene, balsam pear glycosides, phosphor, iron and a variety of minerals, amino acids and nutrients. Can clear away heat good, pure bright eye, solution fatigue. Fresh balsam pear drink tea, the heat fever have certain curative effect.

        According to research, balsam pear contains similar insulin material, have obvious the hypoglycemic effect. It can promote the sugar decomposition, with that excess sugar into heat effect, can improve the body fat balance. If patients with diabetes with balsam pear dry tea with drink, the effect is a plus. Often eat balsam pear people is not easy to make a fire and can improve the symptoms of diabetes. Bitter melon the bitterness part from it contains organic base. Not only can stimulate people's taste nerve, make the person stomachic, still can speed up the gastrointestinal movement, help digestion. Bitter melon also has a unique bitter composition - chicken nano frost, can restrain excessive and excited temperature center, have cultivated antipyretic role. In the hot summer. Children often produce prickly heat, with bitter melon boiled water scrubbing, relieving itching, remove Fei effect.

        Bitter melon can be Fried food, cooking or steam, poor and refreshing, business before pleasure, the taste is long. If the balsam pear and pepper with Fried, can reduce bitter. Will the slices, then at top sprinkle some salt for a while, and then the salt water filter out, also can put the balsam pear cut into pieces and then cooked, put in cold water in the water, so the bitterness of bitter melon will reduce many.

        But bitter melon contains quinine, can stimulate uterine contraction, cause miscarriage, pregnant woman shoulds not be food. The spleen and stomach deficiency cold shouldn't eat.

        The vegetables "beauties water" -- sponge gourd

        Sponge gourd hairdressing value was already well known, towel gourd juice even called "beauty water". This is because the towel gourd contains prevent skin aging of vitamin B1 and make the skin fair-skinneds in vain of vitamin C and other ingredients, can protect the skin, eliminate the plaque, make the skin white, tender, the collection is rare beauty food. It GanPing sexual flavour, there are clear summer heat and cool blood, detoxification aperient, qufeng phlegm, embellish muscle beauty, through channels and collaterals, and do the blood, the effect such as milk. Loofah have clear heat, phlegm, the effect of removing. Luffa is rich in vitamin, protein and 18 kinds of amino acids. Especially contain other melons vegetables do not have gourd base can regulate the metabolism of human body, can be used as a reducing weight, anti-cancer cancer auxiliary food. Sponge gourd can be Fried food or burning soup. Sponge gourd scrambled eggs, and can be used for postpartum milk impassability. Towel gourd soup cooked food, can be used for fever polydipsia. Sponge gourd appropriate now cut now do, in order to avoid nutrition with juice loss, but also in cooking process should pay attention to add less condiment, try to keep light, to retain the characteristics of XiangNen and refreshing.