🌿 Watermelon
[Name] Watermelon
[Taste and Nature] Sweet, cold in nature.
[Meridian Affinity] Enters the lung, stomach, and bladder meridians.
[Function] Refreshes body fluids, quenches thirst, clears summer heat, relieves irritability, detoxifies alcohol, and promotes urination. Used for summer heat with thirst, dry throat, red-yellow urine, diarrhea, dysentery, edema, heatstroke, and alcohol intoxication. The rind of watermelon, also known as "green skin of watermelon," excels in promoting urination and removing dampness, suitable for urinary retention and edema; watermelon seeds moisten the lungs and strengthen the spleen, helping to relieve thirst, stimulate appetite, and resolve phlegm. Modern medicine confirms that watermelon has blood pressure-lowering and diuretic effects.
[Composition] Contains large amounts of glucose, malic acid, fructose, protein amino acids, lycopene, and abundant vitamin C.