Can barbecue and watermelon be eaten together

In the hot summer, I would invite three or five good friends to a barbecue stall at night, eat some skewers and drink some beer. It really makes me feel comfortable just thinking about it. Barbecue is a popular activity in spring and summer for gathering friends, connecting with friends and enjoying nature. If you have a piece of iced watermelon, it will be so delicious. Watermelon tastes sweet and can clear away heat and reduce summer heat. But can I eat watermelon right after having barbecue? Will there be any adverse reactions?

1. You can eat watermelon after eating barbecue, but it is recommended not to eat iced watermelon. Ice-cold watermelon is too cold, while barbecue is relatively hot, which puts more pressure on the stomach and intestines. Eating watermelon normally after barbecue can also help clear away heat and promote diuresis.

2. Barbecue may be the most primitive cooking method of human beings. It uses fuel to heat and dry the air, and places the food in a position closer to the heat source in the hot dry air to heat the food. Generally speaking, barbecue is the process of cooking food (mostly meat, seafood, and vegetables) over fire until it is edible. In modern society, due to the various ways of using fire, barbecue methods have gradually diversified, and various barbecue stoves, barbecue racks, barbecue sauces, etc. have been developed.

3. Watermelon is a summer fruit. The flesh is sweet and can cool down and relieve summer heat. The seeds contain oil and can be used as a snack. The peel is medicinal and has the effects of clearing heat, promoting diuresis, and lowering blood pressure. There is a lot of information about watermelon being used in folk medicine and diet therapy for health care in ancient and modern times.

1. "Ben Jing Feng Yuan" records: Watermelon can draw the heat from the pericardium and drain it from the small intestine and bladder. It can relieve sunstroke and thirst caused by fever in the Taiyang and Yangming meridians, so it is known as the natural "Baihu Decoction". Baihu Decoction is a prescription from the Han Dynasty Treatise on Febrile Diseases, which has the functions of clearing away heat, promoting the production of body fluid, quenching thirst and relieving restlessness, which is a metaphor that watermelon rind has the same function. In spring and summer, the dormant weather causes plague and fever. People who find food collected the previous year eat it, which is like pouring hot water on snow.

2. "Songmo Jiwen" said: Someone suffered from eye disease. He was told to cut watermelon into slices and dry it in the sun, and then take it every day. The disease healed because watermelon is cold in nature and can reduce internal heat.

3. "Sui Xi Ju Diet" says: If you have abdominal distension after eating melon, drink the soup made from pickled winter vegetables to relieve the bloating. For red eyes and mouth ulcers, dry and pickle the watermelon flesh and eat it; for lip ulcers, burn and grind the watermelon rind and hold it in your mouth; for illness caused by eating too much watermelon, boil the rind into a soup to cure it; for stomatitis, dry the watermelon rind, stir-fry it until it is charred, add a little borneol, grind it into powder, mix with honey and apply to the affected area.