Can eating watermelon reduce fever?

Fever is a very common life disease nowadays, which causes many effects on people's bodies. Fever usually leads to decreased appetite, reluctance to go out, bad temper, and usually not liking to eat anything. In fact, during this period of time, if there is no abdominal pain or diarrhea, you can regulate your body temperature by eating some watermelon, because watermelon contains a lot of water, which can help the body excrete some heat.

Steps/Methods:

1. Watermelon has a good antipyretic therapeutic effect. Patients with fever can eat some watermelon appropriately. However, eating too much will have the opposite effect and cause abdominal pain, diarrhea and other diseases. It is best to drink squeezed watermelon juice as boiled water for daily hydration. Watermelon has the effect of clearing away heat and is very effective in reducing the fever of patients.

2. Pay more attention to drinking boiled water and eating more vegetables and fruits. Although watermelon is good for urination, it is not suitable to eat too much. You can replenish the body's water through other fruits and vegetables, which can also achieve the effect of replenishing water, detoxifying and enhancing immunity.

3. It should be noted that since the types of colds are complex and varied, if the fever is caused by bacillary dysentery and diarrhea, it is not advisable to eat watermelon, as it will aggravate the diarrhea and cause unnecessary illness.

Don't eat watermelon in the early stage of a cold

Watermelon is rich in nutrients. According to Chinese medicine, watermelon is cold in nature and sweet in taste. It has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, eliminating restlessness and relieving cough, and promoting urination. It is the best fruit in summer. Don't eat watermelon without moderation. Eating too much can damage the spleen and stomach and easily cause pharyngitis, especially in the early stages of a cold. Eating watermelon in the early stages of a cold can make the cold worse or prolong the time to recovery.

Whether it is a wind-cold cold or a wind-heat cold, in traditional Chinese medicine, it is considered an external symptom in the early stages and should be treated with a dispersing method that eliminates the pathogenic factors from the surface. When the exterior symptoms have not been resolved, do not attack the interior, otherwise the exterior evil will enter the interior and the condition will worsen. Watermelon is cold in nature and has the function of clearing away heat. In the early stage of a cold, when the pathogenic factors are on the surface, eating watermelon is equivalent to taking medicine to clear internal heat, which will lead the pathogens into the interior, which will inevitably aggravate the condition or prolong the healing time.

However, when the cold worsens and symptoms such as high fever, thirst, and sore throat appear, eating some watermelon while taking normal medication can help cure the cold.