First of all, it is unusually tasty: sweet, fragrant, fragrant - delicacy. And it does not matter if you eat it in the form of a fresh slice or cook a diet cereal (vegetable mashed potatoes) - in any case it is useful. Secondly, it perfectly quenches thirst. Thirdly, before you is not just an edible dish: it happens, the melon shows itself a good helper for various diseases.
So, for example, folk, and now even scientific medicine recommend melon pulp to patients suffering from arteriosclerosis of vessels, rheumatism, gout. And then - as an anti-inflammatory or expectorant. Healing properties of pulp will also help to remove helminths from the body, small stones in the kidney or bladder, with hemorrhoids, constipation.
Those women who are prone to stressful conditions and even depression, it turns out, it is not necessary immediately to resort to potent synthetic drugs. To return the mood of mind, to calm the loosened nervous system, to eliminate headaches, too, is often helped by the simplest domestic remedy: a fragrant flesh, for example, a pickled melon. By the way, her tender fiber (in any form) has a beneficial effect on the gastrointestinal tract, acts as a laxative and easy diuretic. On the other hand, the melon seed, brewed in milk, is old (and not without reason) Russian healers are advised to take when urinary retention or suspicion of stones in the bladder.
KEEPER OF UTILITY
They can not be counted in a melon. Protein is a builder of amino acids. Easily digestible carbohydrates, organic acids, pectin and nitrogenous substances. Potassium and magnesium (to help the heart muscle), calcium and phosphorus (to strengthen the musculoskeletal system), iron (enhances hematopoiesis, oxidation-reduction processes). And how many melons are in the pulp of vitamins. Thiamine, carotene ("beauty vitamin"), the whole B group, ascorbic acid. Finally, in the seeds - essential oil. As they say, eat, but at the same time - do your health prevention. There would be a desire.
Fruits (spherical elongated yellow-orange melon) is useful for eating in raw, cooked, dried, frozen and marinated. This melon will be better absorbed if eaten not on an empty stomach, as, for example, many Englishmen at breakfast, and 2-3 hours after eating. At one time there is a large amount of "paradise fruit" doctors do not recommend. This can lead to colic in the abdomen, painful spasms in the gastrointestinal tract and diarrhea.
There are strict contraindications. Melon should be excluded from the diet of people who suffer from diabetes, overweight, and also an allergy to this healthy vegetable.
FOR PREVENTION
Wash the fruit. Cut it into thin slices, peel, place on a sheet of plywood and dry for 10 days on the windowsill, where the sun's rays fall. Now that the curative-prophylactic drug is ready, it can be used as needed. For example, sun-dried slices strengthen peristalsis, which is extremely important, for example, with constipation and hemorrhoids. Or take them for the prevention (prevention) of cardiovascular diseases, since in the melon pulp there is a lot of folic acid.
Melon is the source of all the necessary vitamins and minerals necessary for a person's full health. And so for today from the juice melons are made various oils, cosmetic products.