Brief introduction of cotton melon

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2 Overview Miangua is the fresh and tender fruit of Cucurbitaceae plant Miangua or Moonmelon, also known as Guagua, which originated in Nanyang and was introduced to China in the Ming Dynasty, becoming a vegetable that people often eat. Miangua has the highest medicinal value and can be used as medicine all over the body. Pumpkin contains a variety of nutrients, which are high in pumpkin food, especially saponins, bitter taste of pumpkin, mucus, wood glue, citrulline, xylan, interferon and other special substances have certain special functions.

3 The nicknames of Miangua Miangua are Miangua, Luo Tian, Honey Melon, Bugua, Tiandiaogua, Pure Sunflower Melon, Daoyang Vegetable, Shuigua, Flocculent Melon, Manggua and Luffa.

4. The pumpkin is rich in nutrients, and each 500g contains 7g of protein, 0.05g of fat, 2 1g of carbohydrate, 2.3g of crude fiber, 0/30mg of calcium, 3.7mg of iron, 0/.49mg of carotene and 0/.49mg of thiamine.

Analysis of nutritional value of cotton melon contains B vitamins to prevent skin aging and vitamin C to whiten skin, which can protect skin, eliminate plaque and make skin white and tender. It is a rare beauty product, so cotton melon juice is called "beauty water". It is also helpful for women to eat more cotton melons to regulate irregular menstruation. Saponins contained in pumpkin leaves can relieve cough and disease, and have a certain inhibitory effect on pneumococcus. Insecticides of cotton melon seeds. Guateng extract can be used for treating chronic tracheitis and chronic sinusitis.

1. Anti-scurvy:

Pumpkin has a high content of vitamin C, which can be used to fight scurvy and prevent various vitamin C deficiency.

2. Brain-strengthening beauty:

Because of the high content of vitamin B in melon, it is beneficial to the brain development of children and the brain health of middle-aged and elderly people. The sap of the stem of Solanum lyratum Thunb. It has the special function of keeping skin elastic, and can beautify and wrinkle.

3. Antivirus and antiallergic:

Pumpkin extract has obvious preventive effect on Japanese encephalitis virus, and an antiallergic substance, diarrhea alkyd, has strong antiallergic effect.

6 Buy melon Peel the fresh melon, squeeze out the juice and mix it with the same amount of honey. Apply a small amount to face 10 15 minutes and wash with warm water. It is often used to clean skin and eliminate wrinkles.

7-sided melons are suitable for the general population.

1. Women with irregular menstruation, physical weakness, excessive phlegm, asthma and cough, and postpartum milk obstruction are suitable to eat more cotton melons;

2. People with internal cold diarrhea should not eat more.

8 medicinal effects Cotton melons are eaten when they are young and tender, and used as medicine when they are old. Has the effects of dispelling pathogenic wind, resolving phlegm, cooling blood and detoxicating. Miangua is sweet and cool, and enters the lung and liver meridians. Clearing heat and resolving phlegm, cooling blood and detoxifying. Treat lung heat, excessive phlegm, asthma, cough, intestinal wind, hemorrhoid leakage, bloody stranguria, carbuncle and furuncle. [ 1]

Miangua tastes sweet and cool, and enters the liver and stomach;

Miangua has the effects of clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, cooling blood and detoxicating, relieving summer heat and vexation, dredging collaterals and expelling wind;

Cotton melon is used to treat fever, polydipsia, excessive phlegm, asthma, cough, intestinal wind, hemorrhoids, metrorrhagia, leukorrhagia, bloody stranguria, sores and swelling, and galactorrhea.

Miangua's collaterals are sweet and flat in taste, and can activate collaterals, clear away heat and resolve phlegm by opening the twelve meridians.

9. Edible suggestion of cotton melon 1. Cotton melon should not be eaten raw, but can be boiled and fried. Or mash the juice and apply it to the affected area.

2. Cucumber is rich in juice, so it should be cut now to avoid nutrient loss with juice.

3. When cooking cotton melons, we should pay attention to keeping them as light as possible, using less oil and adding monosodium glutamate or pepper to taste them, so as to show the fresh and refreshing characteristics of cotton melons.

4. Noodles and melons taste sweet, so it is not advisable to add soy sauce, bean paste and other heavy sauces when cooking, so as not to grab the taste.

The recommended consumption of 10 watermelon is 30 ~ 200g per meal.

1 1 dictionary of traditional Chinese medicine Miangua Miangua is the name of traditional Chinese medicine, which comes from southern Yunnan materia medica [2].

1 1. 1 The aliases of noodle melons are Tianluo melon, Tiandiao melon and Shuigua [2].

1 1.2 comes from the fruit of Cucurbitaceae plant Luffa. [2].

1 1.3 is sweet and cool [2]. Into the liver and stomach meridians [2].

1 1.4 Its main functions are clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, cooling blood and detoxifying.

1. Treat fever, polydipsia, excessive phlegm, asthma, cough, intestinal wind, hemorrhoid core leakage, leukorrhagia and blood stranguria [2]. Oral administration: decoction, 9 ~ 15g (fresh 60 ~ 120g) [2].

2. Treat toothache caused by wind insects and study the burning of dry products [2].

1 1.5 chemical constituents This product contains many lycosides, among which lycoside A has antitussive effect [2].

12 * dictionary Miangua 12.5438+0 originated from southern Yunnan materia medica.

12.2 Pinyin names S and gu ā

12.3 The aliases of noodle melons are Tianmou, Luo Tian, Mangua (technical side), Luffa (continued technical side), Bugua (compendium of ancient and modern events), Tianluogua (Puji side), Fish (odd side) and Tiandiaogua. Tianluoshu (Qunfangpu), Spinning Line (Compilation of Medicinal Forests), Cabbage (Flora), Water Melon (Record of Medicinal Herbs Collected in Lingnan), Cuckoo (Flora of Chinese Medicinal Plants), Cuckoo, Brick Melon (Flora of Guangzhou), Cuckoo.

12.4 fresh fruit from Cucurbitaceae or Guangdong Cucurbitaceae; Or dried old ripe fruit (skull) after frost. Young melons are picked in summer and autumn. Old cotton melons (skulls) must be harvested after autumn.

12.5 prototype ① pumpkin

Annual climbing herb, the whole plant is densely pilose when young and nearly glabrous when old. The stem is 7 ~ 10 m long, round, often angular, the young stem is green, sparsely pilose, and the tendrils are usually 3-pronged. Leaves alternate; Petiole polygonal, pilose, 4 ~ 9 cm long; The leaves are heart-shaped, 8-25 cm long, 0/5-25 cm wide, palmately 3-7-lobed, with triangular lobes, tapering or acute apex, fine teeth at the edge, dark green at the top and light green at the bottom, with bristles when young, rough and hairless when old, and 3-7 main veins. Flowers are unisexual and hermaphroditic. Female flowers are solitary and stalked, and male flowers are racemes; Calyx 5-parted, lobes green, ovate-lanceolate, puberulent outside; Corolla yellow, pale yellow or nearly white, 5-parted, lobes broadly obovate, 3-5 cm long, 2.4-4.5 cm wide, with wavy edges; Stamens 3-5, anthers 2-loculed, curved like "S", filaments separated. The base is swollen and pilose; Subspherical, cylindrical, 3-loculed, ovules numerous, stigma 3, hypertrophy, 2-lobed and abduction. Zanthoxylum bungeanum fruit is often pendulous, long cylindrical and18 ~ 60 cm long; When young, the green belt is pink and white, with dark green longitudinal stripes, and turns yellow-green or green-brown when old; There are tough reticular fibers in the pulp. The seeds are oblong, flat, black and winged at the edge. The flowering period is from May to July. The fruiting period is from June to September.

This kind of plant is cultivated in the whole field.

② Guangdong cotton melon

The morphology is similar to the above species, but the differences are as follows: (1) the leaves are palmately lobed; 2 ~ 3 stamens; Zanthoxylum bungeanum fruit is short and angular.

Cultivated in Guangdong and Guangxi.

The roots (roots), stems (vines), juice (water), leaves (leaves), flowers (flowers), stems (pedicels), barks (skins), fibers (collaterals) and seeds (seeds) of the above two plants are also used as medicines, and there are detailed articles.

12.6 chemical composition pumpkin fruit contains saponin, pumpkin bitterness, a lot of mucus and citrulline. The seedlings contain cucurbitacin. Pumpkin juice contains saponin, mucus, xylan, fat, protein and vitamins.

The whole plant of Guangdong Miangua has insecticidal effect. Fruit is poisonous to fish. Rotenone is not found, but it contains hydrocyanic acid.

12.7 is sweet and cold.

① Compendium of Materia Medica: "Sweet, flat and non-toxic."

2 Ben Feng Jingyuan: "Sweet, cold. Nontoxic. "

(3) A Compendium of Medical Forest: "Sweet and salty, cold."

12.8 meridians enter the liver and stomach meridians.

(1) "Ying Ben Cao": "It begins with the Taiyin Sutra."

(2) Materia Medica seeks truth: "Enter the meridians and enter the stomach."

3 rejuvenation materia medica: "into the liver and kidney."

12.9 has the functions of clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, cooling blood and detoxicating. Treat fever, body heat, polydipsia, excessive phlegm, asthma, cough, intestinal wind, hemorrhoid, leucorrhea, bloody stranguria, furuncle, breast obstruction and carbuncle.

(1) Zhu Zhenheng: "If acne is not cured soon, it will burn when it is dry. Put it in cinnabar and mix it with honey and water. "

(2) "Herbal Cover": "Treat acne and foot pain, burn ash and apply it."

③ Introduction to Medicine: "Treating all kinds of malignant sores of men and women, residual poison of acne rash in children, gangrene and furuncle."

(4) Compendium of Materia Medica: "Cooking removes heat and benefits the intestines. The elderly burn sex clothes, dispel wind and phlegm, cool blood and detoxify, kill insects and dredge menstruation, and promote blood circulation and lactation; " Can be used for the treatment of urination and defecation bleeding, hemorrhoid, leakage, jaundice, hernia, ovum swelling, blood gas pain, carbuncle swelling, toothless, acne rash, fetal poison, etc. "

⑤ Wang's Compendium of Materia Medica: "Heavenly skull, treating women with leukorrhagia, abdominal distension and stagnation, and aching muscles and bones."

⑥ "Luchuan Materia Medica": "Produces body fluid to quench thirst, and relieves summer heat and annoyance. Treat fever, thirst, body heat and irritability. "

12. 10 Miangua oral: decocted, 3 ~ 5 yuan (fresh 2 ~ 4 yuan); Or burn ashes and grind them into powder. External use: pouring juice or grinding and dressing.

12. 1 1 note ① "southern Yunnan materia medica": "it is not advisable to eat more, which will damage people's lives and make people lose hope."

2 Ben Feng Jingyuan: "The tender person is cold and slippery, eating too much and diarrhea."

12. 12 attachment ① Treatment of intestinal wind: Loofah is unlimited, burnt to ashes, mixed with wine for two yuan, hollow. ("Continued Technology")

② Treatment of hemorrhoid leakage and proctoptosis: Miangua burned ash, lime for many years, realgar for five yuan each. Finally, mix the gallbladder, egg white and sesame oil and put them away. ("Sun Liangfang")

3 * * * Treatment of alcohol hemorrhoids: the melon is burned, ground to the end, and drink two yuan. (Compendium of Materia Medica)

4 cure white collapse: palm (burning ash) and cotton melon. The upper part is divided into equal parts and is fine powder. Adjust hollow wine. ("miracle cure")

⑤ Wind-heat treatment: burning, grinding and water rubbing the melon. (Compendium of Materia Medica)

⑥ Treatment of carbuncle is not convergent, and the sore is too deep: towel gourd wipes juice frequently. (Ren Zhai Zhi Fang)

⑦ Treatment of blisters and wet sores: Cotton melon juice and powder are commonly used. (Compendium of Materia Medica)

⑧ Treatment of jade stem ulcer: Lotus seeds are mashed with cotton melons and rubbed at the end of gallnut. (Zhu Zhenheng)

Attending to cure the pain of dry blood gas, the woman's blood gas is not good, rushing to the heart diaphragm, becoming dry blood gas: a cotton melon, burning, hollow warm wine suit. (Shouyu Shenfang)

⑾ Treatment of meridian obstruction: dry towel gourd 1 piece as the powder, make a cake with pigeon blood, dry it in the sun on the same day and grind it into powder. Two yuan each time. Take Siwutang three times under the hollow wine. ("Famous Party at Sea")

⑿ Treat dysentery with wine, bloody stool, abdominal pain, or five colors like fish brain: one dry cotton melon with burnt skin, and two yuan with hollow wine. While simmering. (Experience Prescription)

[13] Treatment of milk barrier: Study on the combustion characteristics of cotton melon lotus seeds. Take a dollar or two to buy wine, sweating all over. ("purely unilateral")

[14] Treatment of toothache caused by wind insects: Frosted wax gourd is burnt, and it should be rubbed at the end. (Ren Zhai Zhi Fang)

(15) Proper amount of raw watermelon and boiled soup can prevent measles.

(16) Raw watermelon juice with a little honey; Or cut off cotton vines, naturally drop a small glass of water, and stew with rock sugar to treat whooping cough.

(17) Give birth to a few small melons (pedicled), cut them off, put them in a casserole, and take the concentrated juice to treat asthma.

(18) raw zucchini (or leaves), mashed to get juice, and applied to the affected area to treat acne vulgaris, impetigo, heat furuncle and urticaria.

(19) Chop a piece of wax gourd and soak it in boiling water to treat acute laryngitis and sore throat.

(20) 30 grams of cotton melon seeds, boiled silver carp food, cure less milk.

(2 1) cottonseed is dried and ground into powder, each time 10g, which is not easy to cure expectoration.

(22) Fresh pumpkin leaves are washed and mashed, and applied to the affected area of neurodermatitis once every seven days until local redness and even occult blood appear, so that neurodermatitis can be treated.

(23) Old cotton melon (peeled), baked on tile and ground into powder, and mixed with yellow wine to treat lung abscess, hernia pain and postpartum abdominal pain.

(24) Instant melon drink: After defrosting a piece of melon, wash it, remove seeds, chop it up, add a proper amount of water to boil it for one hour, and then remove the residue. Continue to cook the juice with low fire until the thickening stops, add 65,438+000 grams of white sugar powder, mix well and bottle. At any time, use10g boiled water to prepare and eat. Can be used for treating acute and chronic pharyngitis, laryngitis and tonsillitis.

(25) Miangua lean broth: about 250 grams of fresh Miangua is cut into pieces, and about 200 grams of lean pork is sliced. Add appropriate amount of boiled soup, add salt to taste after cooking, and eat with meals. Has the effects of clearing away heat, promoting bowel movement, relieving summer heat and relieving vexation. Suitable for summer heat, polydipsia, early internal hemorrhoids, and fecal bleeding.

(26) acne is not fast. Use old cotton melon for nearly three inches, scald the skin, grind it into powder, and take it with sugar water.

(27) carbuncle does not converge and the wound is deep. There is also the melon puree that is often applied.

(28) Wind-heat rib swelling. Burn with cotton melon, grind into powder, and apply with water.

(29) Chair sores. Bake with melon peel, grind into powder, mix with Chinese liquor and apply.

(30) frostbite of hands and feet. Burn with old cotton melon, adjust wax and lard.

(3 1) bleeding, leakage and proctoptosis. Burned with cotton melon, lime for many years, realgar for five yuan each, ground into powder, coated with pig bile, egg white and sesame oil until it comes out of the intestine.

(32) Blood flows under intestinal wind. When the frost is used, the wax gourd is burned and ground into powder, and two money is taken from the air to send wine.

(33) Blood collapse. Burn ashes with old cotton melons, palms, etc. And take it with salt wine or salt soup.

(34) The milk is blocked. Burn lotus seeds with cotton melons, grind them into powder, give wine a dollar or two, and cover them with sweat.

(35) Intestinal gas is distended and painful, and it runs around the umbilicus. Burn the stems with old cotton melons and grind them into powder. Every time you drink San Qian, the hot wine will be adjusted. If the patient is seriously ill, it will disappear after taking it for two or three times.

(36) Eggs swell and fall. Burn the old melon, grind it into powder, refine honey and make paste. Drink a spoonful of good wine every night.

(37) Low back pain. Stir-fried with cotton melon seeds, mashed and mixed with wine. Apply slag to the pain.

(38) Laryngeal obstruction with swelling and pain. Irrigation with melon pulp.

(39) Eliminating phlegm and relieving cough. Burn with cotton melon, grind into powder, and add dates to make balls, such as marbles. Take one pill at a time, and take it with warm wine.

Toothache is very common. Use a raw cotton melon, rub salt to burn it, grind it into powder, brush your teeth frequently, and your saliva will be fine. If the ribs are swollen, you can smear them with water at the end. This prescription is ineffective in treating tooth decay.

(4 1) knife wound. Divide ancient lime, fresh lime, pumpkin root leaves, leek roots, etc. into equal parts, pound them into powder, make them into cakes, dry them in the shade, grind them into powder, and apply them. Hemostasis, analgesia, granulation, with special effects.

(42) sores are persistent. Wash and wipe with the old roots of cotton melon.

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