Wax gourd is a vegetable with high nutritional value. Eating wax gourd often in summer is very beneficial to human health, especially for obese people. Wax gourd is sweet, light and cool, and enters the lung, large intestine, small intestine and bladder meridian. It has the effects of moistening lung, promoting fluid production, eliminating phlegm, quenching thirst, promoting diuresis, relieving swelling, clearing away heat and summer heat, removing toxic substances and expelling pus.

Trigonelline in wax gourd mainly exists in the flesh of wax gourd, which can help human metabolism and inhibit the conversion of sugar into fat, which is also one of the weight-reducing and lipid-lowering functions of wax gourd.

Wax gourd kernel contains oleic acid, which has the activity of inhibiting melanin deposition in the body and is a good moisturizing and beauty component.

The content of dietary fiber in wax gourd is very high, about 0.9g per 100g. Modern medical research shows that dietary fiber can reduce cholesterol and blood lipid in the body and prevent atherosclerosis. The crude fiber in wax gourd can stimulate intestinal peristalsis, so that carcinogens accumulated in the intestine can be excreted as soon as possible.

Wax gourd juice and wax gourd extract can increase the urine volume of animals, reduce the degree of nephropathy caused by mercury chloride, and significantly reduce the content of serum myotoxicity. Because wax gourd contains more Vc, high potassium and low sodium salt, it is most suitable for patients with hypertension, nephropathy and edema who need low sodium food.

At the same time, wax gourd also has a good beauty function. Wash your face and body with it, which can remove brown spots and make your skin soft, smooth and fair. The combination of angelica and winter melon seeds can also protect the liver.

Wax gourd can effectively control the transformation of sugar into fat, prevent the accumulation of fat in the body and consume excess fat, which has a good effect on preventing and treating hypertension, atherosclerosis and losing weight.

The role of wax gourd goes far beyond this, but it is worth reminding that friends should eat wax gourd in moderation, because wax gourd has diuretic effect, and eating too much may cause collapse.