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Ten Summer Remedies - Watermelon, Strawberry, Kiwifruit, Mung Bean, Cooling Tea, Winter Melon, Bitter Melon, Seaweed, Tofu and Mushroom


How to beat the summer heat? Stay cool with air conditioner, and drink a lot of water. These may help you prevent heat stroke, but might not be enough. What you eat and what you drink also affect your body's temperature. In summer season, you should avoid or reduce eating hot spicy foods, and add or eat more cooling foods. Foods that have cooling properties include watermelon, strawberry, kiwifruit, mung bean, green tea, winter melon, bitter melon, seaweed, tofu and mushroom. All these foods ...

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How to Eat Bitter Melon: Three Bitter Melon Recipes


Bitter melon (bitter gourd) has many health benefits. How to eat bitter melon? Here are three bitter melon recipes: 1. Stir-Fry Bitter Melon Pork Recipe: - Slice a bitter melon in half, scoop out the seeds, then cut the melon into thin slices. - Cut 100 grams of pork into 1-inch long noodle-like pieces. - Cut garlic and chili paper into small pieces. - Place a pan on the stove. When the pan is hot, add a table spoon of cooking oil into the pan. - Put the bitter melon, pork, garlic, ...

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Food Remedies: Bitter Melon for Weight Loss


Bitter melon can be used for weight loss. Losing weight could be hard. Bitter melon can make losing weight a little bit easier. Why bitter melon can be used for weight loss? Scientists believe that insulin resistance is related to overweight. Insulin resistance (IR) is a physiological condition where the natural hormone, insulin, becomes less effective at lowering blood sugars. Various questions have troubled the medical community for sometime. Does insulin resistance cause obesity? Or ...

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Why Bitter Melon Is Beneficial for Diabetes - Food Remedies


Bitter melon can be used for relieving diabetes. Bitter melon, according to traditional food and medicine guidelines, has cooling properties and is used to beat summer heat and treat heat related illness. It cools down the organs in the upper and middle body, including heart, liver, stomach and intestine. When those organs are cooled down, the heat in the organs is reduced, therefore the water consumption is naturally reduced. The body will feel less thirsty, and no need to drink a lot of ...

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Bitter Melon for Heat-Stroke, Liver Heat, Fevers, Red Eye, Toothache, Boils, Dysentery & Constipation


Bitter Melon (bitter gourd) is a plant of the tropics. It is a popular vegetable in some Asian countries. Bitter melon has been used in Asian and African traditional medicine systems for centuries. Bitter Melon has cooling properties. It reduces internal heat and inflammation. That is why bitter melon can be used to treat the heat/inflammation related diseases, such as heat-stroke, liver heat, fevers, red eye, toothache, boils, dysentery and constipation . In many Asian countries, people ...

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Remedies for Type 2 Diabetes: Purslane, Lemon, Huai Shan & Bitter Melon


Purslane (Portulaca oleracea) is a common weed. It can be eaten as a summer leaf vegetable. It has a slightly sweet-sour taste. Purslane contains more omega-3 fatty acids than any other leafy vegetable plant. It can be used to help relieve type 2 diabetes. Use Purslane 100 grams to make a decoction, drink it twice a day. This remedy is effective to relieve early stages of type 2 diabetes. Lemon also can be used as a remedy for type 2 diabetes. The easiest way to use lemon is by squeezing the ...

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Herbal Remedies for Diabetes Mellitus - Bitter Melon, Trichosanthis, Fenugreek, Cinnamon, Antler Velvet and Cumin - Chinese Medicine


There are many herbal remedies that can be used to treat diabetes mellitus, such as bitter melon, trichosanthis, fenugreek, cinnamon, antler velvet, and cumin. Bitter melon is a vegetable. It is known to lower blood sugar levels in diabetics. Bitter melon has been found to increase insulin sensitivity. Studies suggest that Bitter Melon may play a role in controlling the production of insulin by the body, thus promoting blood sugar control. Trichosanthis root (Tian Hua Fen) is a Chinese ...

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