Melancia

Common Cold

Material: Watermelon juice, 100 ml; Reed Rhizome, 30g.

Preparation:  Add the Reed Rhizome into 500 ml of water to cook for 30 min to 60 min. Collect the juice and mix it with the watermelon juice.

How to use: Drink the juice, 1 to 2 times a day.

2. Common Cold

Material: Watermelon skin, 100 g; Lalang Grass Rhizome, 30g; fresh ginger, 3 pieces. 

Preparation:  Add all into water to cook as for a soup.

How to use: Drink the juice, twice a day.

3. Dry throat and pain in throat due to common cold

Material: Watermelon skin, 30g 

Preparation:  Add into water to cook as for a soup.

How to use: Drink the juice, twice a day.

4. Common cold in summer

Material: Watermelon core, 300g; tomato, 300g.  

Preparation:  Make juice with gauze (not with a grinder or blender).

How to use: Drink the juice, from time to time every day.

5. Chronic bronchitis

Material: Watermelon, one; fresh ginger, 60g.

Preparation:  Make a small open on the melon, add the ginger in. Steam it over boiling water for 2 hours.

How to use: Eat the melon.

6. Chronic fever

Material: Watermelon skin, 60g; Adsuki Bean (Chi xiao dou), 20g; green bean, 30g

Preparation:  Cook in water as for a soup.

How to use: Eat the soup, two to three times a day.

7. Acute hepatitis

Material: Watermelon skin, 200g; fresh  Plantago asiatica L. (che qian cao), 100g.

Preparation:  Cook in water as for a soup.

How to use: Drink the extract, two to three times a day.

8. Cirrhosis

Material: Watermelon skin, 100g;  pig liver, 30g.

Preparation:  Cook in water as for a soup.

How to use: Drink the extract, and eat the pig liver,  two to three times a day.

9. Prevention of Infectious Hepatitis

Material: Watermelon juice, 100ml; honey, 10g.

Preparation:  Mix.

How to use: Drink all in once.

10. Vomiting blood

Material: Watermelon cane, 100g; lotus flower, 30g

Preparation:  Add into water, cook as for a soup.

How to use: Drink the extract, twice a day.

11. Diarrhea with blood

Material: Watermelon juice, one cup; brown sugar, 20g.

Preparation:  Mix.

How to use: Drink the mixture, three times a day.

12. Cholecystitis

Material: Watermelon skin, 100g; Seeds of Brassica alba (Bai jie zi), 3g; white radish seed, 5 g.

Preparation:  Add into water, cook as for a soup (60 min)

How to use: Drink the extract, two times a day.

13. Typhoid (Shang han)

Material: Watermelon cane, 60g; Honeysuckle (Jin Yin Hua), 30g; licorice (gan cao), 6g.

Preparation:  Add into water, cook as for a soup (60 min)

How to use: Drink the extract, two times a day.

14. High blood pressure (1)

Material: Watermelon cane, 60g;  cucumber cane, 30g; bamboo leaves, 10g.

Preparation:  Add into water, cook as for a soup (60 min)

How to use: Drink the extract, two times a day.

15. High blood pressure (2)

Material: Watermelon skin, 200g; corn must (yu mi xu), 60g; rock sugar, 10g.

Preparation:  Add into three bowls of  water, cook as for a soup until the water is about one bowl. Collect the extract. Mix it with rock sugar.

How to use: Drink the extract, two times a day. Repeat for 7 to 10 days.

16. High blood pressure (3)

Material: Watermelon skin, 30g; white melon, 30g; Achyranthes (niu xi), 15g.

Preparation:  Add into water, cook as for a soup (60 min).

How to use: Drink the extract, two to three times a day.

17. High blood pressure (4)

Material: Watermelon skin, 12g;  Cassia Seed (jue ming zi), 9g.

Preparation:  Add into water, cook as for a soup (60 min).

How to use: Drink the extract, two to three times a day.

18. High blood lipids (cholesterol, etc.)

Material: Watermelon leaves, 60g; peanut skin (not the outside shell), 30g.

Preparation:  Add into water, cook as for a soup (60 min).

How to use: Drink the extract, two to three times a day.

19. Diabetes (1)

Material: Watermelon skin, 60g; Barbary (Gou qi zi), 15g; Radix Trichosanthis (Tian hua fen), 12g; black plum (Wu mei), 10g.

Preparation:  Add all into water, cook as for a soup (60 min).

How to use: Drink the extract, two to three times a day.

20. Diabetes (2)

Material: Watermelon skin, 15g; white melon skin, 15g; Radix Trichosanthis (Tian hua fen), 12g;

Preparation:  Add all into water, cook as for a soup (60 min).

How to use: Drink the extract, two to three times a day.

21. Nephritis

Material: Watermelon skin, 60g;  Imperata cylindrical (Bai mao gen), 60g.

Preparation:  Add all into water, cook as for a soup (60 min).

How to use: Drink the extract, two to three times a day.