The main benefits of boiling water with white gourd peel include relieving heatstroke, reducing edema, and detoxifying.

Benefits of boiling water with white gourd peel

1. Relieving heatstroke

White gourd peel has a cooling nature and has the effect of clearing heat and relieving summer heat. Drinking water boiled with white gourd peel in hot summer can effectively remove heatstroke. Especially if symptoms of heatstroke such as dizziness, nausea, and diarrhea occur, boiling an appropriate amount of white gourd peel with chrysanthemum, honeysuckle, and dark plum and drinking it will have a better effect.

2. Reducing edema

The "Hunan Materia Medica" introduces a specific method of using white gourd peel to reduce edema: boil water with white gourd peel, Cortex Acanthopanacis, and ginger peel. If it is edema due to physical weakness, you can boil white gourd peel, small red beans, and brown sugar in an appropriate amount of water until soft, and then eat the beans and drink the soup.

3. Detoxifying

White gourd peel has a slightly cold nature and has a good detoxifying effect. Clinically, white gourd peel is often used to treat various skin diseases caused by damp-heat, such as abscesses, boils, and skin eczema.

Precautions for eating white gourd peel

Actually, white gourd is a treasure all over its body. Not only the flesh of white gourd can be eaten, but also the peel and seeds of white gourd are common medicinal materials in clinical practice. Therefore, when we eat white gourd, we might as well make full use of it. After cooking white gourd, we can wash and dry the remaining white gourd peel and seeds, and take them out for use when needed in the future. This is not only convenient and fast, but also does not need to worry about any adverse reactions to the human body. However, it should be noted that people with a cold constitution should eat less white gourd.