What benefits does wax gourd have to the body?

Wax gourd is one of the most common vegetables in midsummer, so common that we even ignore its existence, but you may not think that it is the most intimate nutrition and beauty product around greedy and beautiful people. Wise ancients had already discovered the value of wax gourd, so they recorded its various benefits in a large number of ancient books. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that the boiled water of winter melon pulp "washes the face and bathes the body, and removes the darkness and dryness." "Rihuazi Materia Medica" records that winter melon seeds can "peel, dispel wind, peel black and dry, and moisturize." "Dietotherapy Materia Medica" contains: "Winter melon (benevolence) makes people's face smooth as jade." There is a recipe for treating black face in the General Record of Shengji: add wine and water to the wax gourd for half-cooking, remove the residue and cook it into a paste, then wash it at night. There is a saying in Meng Xi's dietotherapy: Winter melon seeds are soaked in vinegar, and they are as white as jade for a long time. Modern research shows that protein and citrulline contained in winter melon seeds can moisturize the skin and inhibit the formation of melanin. In the hot summer, when ladies who love beauty spend a lot of money to wrap themselves up with umbrellas and sunscreen to avoid the warm sunshine, can you imagine that there is the most natural, gentle, kind and cheapest beauty product around you-wax gourd? If you don't have time to concoct the traditional prescriptions of the ancients, use the simplest method: slice the tender wax gourd before going to bed, apply it on the face slightly heated by the sun and surrounded by dust all day, close your eyes and enjoy this rare cool and natural fragrance. Moreover, the content of vitamin C in wax gourd is high, with vitamin C 18mg per 100 grams, which is 1.2 times that of tomato. This is the best nutrition for the skin. Although wax gourd is short in stature, it can not only make your skin smooth, delicate and fair, but also make you become my fair lady. Wax gourd has no fat, low carbohydrate content and low calories. It is a light food and has been considered as a good weight-loss product since ancient times. "Dietotherapy Materia Medica" says: If you want to be decent, thin and healthy, you can eat often; Don't eat if you want to be fat. Modern medical research has found that wax gourd contains malonic acid, a compound that can inhibit sugar conversion, which can promote human metabolism, prevent fat from accumulating in human body, and has the function of lowering blood fat. Moreover, wax gourd has extremely low sodium content and has the function of diuresis and dampness elimination. Therefore, eating wax gourd often has obvious weight loss and mental fitness effects. In this era of advocating nature and health, people begin to realize that health is the foundation of beauty. Only a healthy body can have a beautiful face, just like fertile soil can produce charming flowers. Wax gourd is not only a daily food, but also a good medicine for treating diseases. Chinese medicine believes that winter melon is sweet, slightly cold and nontoxic, and has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, diuresis, quenching thirst, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. For example, it is recorded in the "Resting Diet Spectrum" that wax gourd "clears away heat, nourishes the stomach and produces fluid, removes filth and annoyance, eliminates carbuncle and promotes blood circulation, cures fullness, diarrhea and cholera, and detoxifies fish and wine." "southern Yunnan materia medica" contains: wax gourd "moistens the lungs, clears away heat and phlegm, relieves cough and promotes diuresis." Winter melon soup can clear away heat and promote diuresis (even skin is better), which not only relieves summer heat, but also is beneficial to the treatment of chronic nephritis; "Xiao pian Fang" contains: drinking melon juice can relieve fish poison and alcohol; Watermelon peel decoction instead of tea can cure huge urticaria; "Qian Jin Fang" contains: sliced wax gourd, mashed and coated to cure Xia Yue prickly heat; External washing with winter melon soup to treat hemorrhoid pain; Boiling winter melon seeds, Fritillaria cirrhosa, almonds and Sydney together can treat summer lung heat cough and so on. The benefits of wax gourd are numerous and too numerous to mention. However, people with cold winter melon, diarrhea, chronic illness, stomach cold deficiency, or taking nourishing drugs should not eat more. By the way, winter melon is light and easy to cook, especially when cooked with seafood, such as fried winter melon with shrimp, dried scallops of winter melon, kelp winter melon soup, lemon melon strips and so on. It makes people never tire of eating, and there are no adverse side effects. Therefore, you don't have to worry about eating melons and beautifying your appetite, and you don't have to deprive yourself of the right to enjoy food in order to lose weight, or pay the price of health in pursuit of beauty and slimness. How can you refuse its approachable and considerate care from the inside out?