The medicinal uses of watermelon; watermelon is cold, sweet, and belongs to the heart, stomach and bladder meridian; has the effect of clearing heat and relieving summer heat, generating fluid and quenching thirst, diuretic and removing annoyance; mainly treats chest and diaphragm congestion, full of stuffiness, urinary discomfort, sores on the mouth and nose, summer heat, heat stroke, relieving alcohol poisoning and other diseases. 1, relief of summer heat: in the summer, the red sun is hot, some people feel chest discomfort, depression, fatigue, dizziness, loss of appetite, weight loss, or low fever, etc.. As the hot weather continues, the symptoms increase and do not diminish until after the autumn cools down. The following year, the symptoms may return again and again, but there is no organic lesion on examination. This series of symptoms is commonly known as resistance to summer. According to traditional Chinese medicine, resistance to summer is due to the invasion of summer heat and dampness into the body, blocking the qi of the spleen and stomach in the middle jiao. This is especially true for children who drink too much and women who are less active. After “resistance to summer”, a summer, to lose more than 10kg, waiting for the summer to autumn, in order to gradually recover, the patient in addition to ask the doctor to take medicine, it is appropriate to use watermelon peel and peanuts 2 taels, wheat sprouts 1 tael, rice kernel 1 tael, boiled into a thick soup, and even serve six or seven days, you can appetite greatly increased. 2, treatment of heatstroke: summer heatstroke, suddenly dizzy brain fever, such as no vomiting and diarrhea, available watermelon shaved juice, two or three cups of daily service, the light cured. If the fever does not subside, you can use 9 grams of Tempeh and 6 grams of Elsholtzia to make soup as a medicine, and then use watermelon juice as a drink, which can also be cured. If a person with heatstroke suddenly faints or vomits and diarrhea, he or she should consult a doctor for emergency treatment, and this formula should not be applied. But after taking medicine to recuperate, watermelon juice instead of drinks is also appropriate. The role of watermelon: 1, summer acne: 100 grams of mung beans, add 1500 ml of water, boil soup, 10 minutes after boiling to mung beans, watermelon skin (without peeling the outer skin) 500 grams, boil and cool. Drink soup, several times a day. In the formula, mung beans are sweet and cold, can reduce swelling and lower gas, clear heat and detoxification; watermelon peel is sweet and cold, can clear heat and relieve summer heat, eliminate annoyance and quench thirst. 2, strengthen the spleen and eliminate summer heat: 100 grams of fresh watermelon peel, 10 jujube, decoction soup, drink as tea every day. 3, aphrodisiac: watermelon peel cut into shreds, blanching water and fish out, with cooked chicken shreds, lean meat shreds with seasonings to eat.