Can you eat watermelon when you have a cold or cough? If you love watermelon, you must know this

The hot summer is the time to eat watermelon, but this is also the time when cold viruses are rampant. So can you eat watermelon if you have a cold or cough? Many watermelon lovers don’t know much about this. In fact, patients with colds and coughs can eat watermelon, but they must eat less, because watermelon is cold in nature and eating too much can easily irritate the throat.

1. Can I eat watermelon when I have a cough?

People with cough can eat watermelon, but they must eat less.

Cough is a common clinical symptom, mainly caused by bronchitis, upper respiratory tract infection, etc. Watermelon is cold in nature, and eating too much can easily irritate the throat, so eat less.

2. The efficacy and function of watermelon

Watermelon has many functions, including clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, relieving restlessness and thirst, lowering blood pressure and beautifying, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling.

Watermelon has many functions, including clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, relieving restlessness and thirst, lowering blood pressure and beautifying, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling, etc.

Watermelon is rich in various vitamins, which can balance blood pressure, regulate heart function, prevent cancer, promote metabolism, and soften and dilate blood vessels. Eating watermelon regularly can also make your hair beautiful and thick.

1. Watermelon can clear away heat, relieve summer heat, and quench thirst: Watermelon contains a lot of water. When you have an acute fever, thirst, sweating, and irritability, eating a piece of sweet, sandy, and juicy watermelon will improve your symptoms immediately.

2. The sugar and salt contained in watermelon can act as a diuretic and eliminate kidney inflammation. The protease can convert insoluble protein into soluble protein, increasing the nutrition of patients with nephritis.

3. The substances in watermelon have the effect of lowering blood pressure.

4. The amount of urine will increase significantly after eating watermelon, which can reduce the content of bile pigments and make bowel movements smooth, which has a certain effect on the treatment of jaundice.

5. Fresh watermelon juice and tender rind increase skin elasticity, reduce wrinkles and add radiance.

3. Food taboos

Watermelon is the most natural beverage. It is rich in nutrients and has many benefits to the human body. However, although watermelon has many advantages, the side effects of eating it in large quantities or for a long time should not be ignored. Ming Dynasty Wang Ying's "Food Materia Medica" said: Watermelon is cold in nature and can relieve fever. It is known as the natural Hundred Tigers Soup, but it is not advisable to eat too much. Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: Watermelon and melon are both raw and cold. People in the world think that they are like nectar to the heart and they bring temporary pleasure, but they don't know that they can damage the spleen and cause dampness.

In the Yuan Dynasty, Li Pengfei's "Book of Longevity" said: Northerners have thick constitutions, so they are accustomed to eating this food, while Southerners have thin constitutions, so eating too much can easily cause cholera. It is also said that Chen Fengyuan, the prefect of Fangzhou, ate too many melons to escape the heat, and in the autumn he suddenly suffered from back and leg pain and was unable to move. These were all caused by eating melons. Therefore, people who are diagnosed by Chinese medicine as having spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, abdominal pain due to cold accumulation, frequent urination, large amount of urine; as well as people with chronic enteritis, gastritis, duodenal ulcer and other constitutions belonging to deficiency and cold should not eat too much. Normal and healthy people should not eat too much at one time or eat it in large quantities for a long time, because watermelon contains a lot of water, which will dilute the gastric juice in the stomach and cause indigestion or diarrhea.

Do not eat spoiled watermelon as it can easily cause gastrointestinal diseases and diarrhea. Zhang Lu of the Qing Dynasty said in "Ben Jing Feng Yuan": Watermelon is sweet, cold and has the effect of purging. Ziren is sweet and warm in nature and its function is to clear away phlegm and saliva. It is also quoted from "Xiang Gan Zhi" that if you eat watermelon seeds after eating them, you will not belch the watermelon smell, which shows its warming and dispersing power. Those who suffer from abdominal pain due to gastrointestinal cold accumulation caused by overeating of melons and fruits can take the Chinese medicine Lizhong Decoction to treat it. Although watermelon has many benefits for humans, please remember the Taiwanese folk saying: Eating watermelon during the day will cause symptoms at night.

Therefore, patients with oral ulcers, patients in the early stages of a cold, people with renal insufficiency, and diabetics should not eat watermelon. If people with oral ulcers eat too much watermelon, too much water needed for the recovery of oral ulcers will be discharged, thereby aggravating yin deficiency and internal heat, prolonging the course of the disease and making it difficult to heal; for people with renal insufficiency, eating watermelon will not only aggravate edema, but also easily induce acute heart failure; the amount of carbohydrates (sugars) consumed by diabetics every day needs to be strictly controlled, so if you eat watermelon several times a day, you should reduce the amount of meals and pasta products (carbohydrates) accordingly to avoid aggravating the condition.

Conclusion: Friends who have coughs should eat less watermelon, as it will aggravate the condition. Wait until the cough is cured before eating a lot of it. Watermelon has many nutritional values ​​and benefits, and is very good for our health. It would be a great pity not to eat watermelon in summer.