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…
Winter Melon Adzuki Bean Soup is beneficial for edema, beriberi, nephritis, ascites, leg swelling, athlete’s foot and weight loss. According to traditional Chinese medicine, both winter melon (white gourd, ash gourd, fuzzy melon) and adzuki bean (small red bean) have…
Winter Melon Pork Rib Soup is a popular Chinese summer soup. This soup has cooling and diuretic properties. It is beneficial to reduce summer heat, thirst and dysuria. And it helps relieve heat-stroke, edema, phlegm, sores, hot irritability, blood in…
Winter melon (white gourd, ash gourd, fuzzy melon) can be used for skin ulcers, acne, carbuncles, skin whitening, facial dark spots, burns and mouth sores. According to ancient Chinese medical books, Winter melon has cooling properties. It cleanses heat, reduces…
Winter melon (white gourd, ash gourd, fuzzy melon) has moderate effects to help treat urine retention, lung abscess and asthma, cirrhosis, high blood pressure, atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease and obesity. To help improve the symptoms of urine retention, cirrhosis with…
Winter melon (white gourd, ash gourd, fuzzy melon) is a popular summer food in East Asia and South Asia. Winter melon is beneficial to relieve summer heat, thirst, hot cough, lung phlegm, edema, beriberi, nephritis, ascites and diabetes. Winter melon…
