This product is the ripe fruit of white gourd (Benincasa hispida (Thunb.) Cogn.) of the bottle gourd peel family plant.

White gourd

White gourd

[Property]

sweet and bland, cool. act on lung, small intestine and bladder channels.

[Efficacy]

Clears away heat and diuresis, relieves summer heat, eliminates heat and phlegm, and relieves cough. Fat people often eat it to help lose weight.

[Indications]

Treat edema fullness, difficulty in urination, diarrhea, stranguria, etc.; treat lung heat cough, yellow and sticky phlegm.

[Documentation]

1. Mingyi Bielu: "White gourd, sweet in taste, slightly cold. Mainly used to remove abdominal retention of water and bloating, facilitate urination and quench thirst."
2. Bencao Yanyi: "Suffering from back gangrene and all boil and sore gangrene, cut off a large piece and place it on the sore. The heat will make it easy to remove the heat toxin and the qi will be very good."
3. Bencao Yanyi Buyi: "It is taboo for those with chronic illness and yin deficiency. "Yan Yi" uses it to disperse heat toxin qi, and it may cause walking and impatientness. Do not eat in September, as soon as it is eaten by frost. No. Er, it makes people suffer from regurgitation. "
4. Bencao Gangmu: "It is mainly used for sore swelling and pain in donkeys and horses, and it is not used for drying in the shade. It is also responsible for fracture pain." LI > Bencao Jingshu: "White gourd has the qi of yin earth inside and is invaded by frost and dew on the outside, so it has a sweet taste, slightly cold qi, and is frigidity and non-toxic. Water belongs to yin, The nature of melon is also yin, and the qi is similar, so it can facilitate urination and remove abdominal retention of water and bloating. It is sweet and cold and relieves heat in the stomach, so it can also quench thirst. Hongjing: relieves consumptive thirst and boredom, and removes toxin. . Meng Shen: "tonifying qi, eliminating heart and head and face heat." Daming: "eliminating heat, toxin, and prickly heat." Ye."
5. "Medicinal Property": "Sweet in taste, cold in nature, non-toxic, enters the four meridians of the spleen, stomach, and large and small intestines. Mainly associated with chest discomfort and thirst, below the navel Shuizhang It can induce phlegm, relieve urination and relieve heat toxin, and can be applied to Yongju, and it can also relieve dandruff poison and fish poison. Note: white gourd is sweet in taste and should be taken into the spleen; if it is laxative and urgent, it should be taken into the spleen. Large intestine. Polydipsia and other symptoms are all caused by heat, and it is cold in nature, so it can be cured. Danxi said: People with long-term illness and yin deficiency should not take it. If it is not eaten, it will cause regurgitation. "
6. Benjing Fengyuan: "It helps the small intestine and suppresses the poison of elixir. Its seeds are used to treat intestinal abscess, remove dark spots on the face, moisturize the skin, and act as a facial oil, which is used to bring out good color. Take Guan Lian Jiao juice to treat five types of stranguria and suppress elixir poisoning. "
7. Bencao Qiuzhen: "disinhibiting water and dispersing edema, antipyretic. white gourd (specially enters intestines and stomach), although sweet and light in taste, very cold and sharp in nature. Therefore, the therapeutic effects described in the book are many. It can reduce swelling and relieve asthma. "Yang's Family Tibetan Prescription" can treat ten types of water-vapor edema. Use a large white gourd, cut the cover and remove the flesh, fill it with rice beans, seal it and seal it, and use paper sticks and mud to consolidate it to relieve dryness. , use two large baskets with glutinous rice flour, put the melon in it, simmer until the fire is gone, take out and slice it, bake it into powder with rice beans, flour and water paste pill as big as Wu Zi, take 70 pills each, fry waxgourd seed and add it to the soup. Take it three times a day for urination. To quench thirst and treat carbuncle and heat toxin. Apply it in slices to relieve heat. However, it is best for those with cold kidneys. Cold, long-term illness efflux diarrhea, and water deficiency and qi weakness, taking it will relieve the water qi, and there is a risk of reversal cold of limbs, dryness and thirst. "
8. Bencao Fenjing: " Sweet, cold. It relieves heat and benefits the spleen, relieves constipation, eliminates edema, and disperses heat toxin."

Treatment of influenza, enterovirus, and various viral colds, Chinese medicine is more refined, non-toxic, and effective than Western medicine

[Precaution]

Use with caution if your body is weak and cold, and your stomach is weak and prone to diarrhea.