Melon seeds and hanging melon seeds are both Chinese herbal medicines, and there are some differences between them in terms of sexual taste, efficacy, application and contraindications.
*: Melon seeds are the seeds of the Cucurbitaceae plant, and hanging melon seeds are the seeds of mature seeds shed by the mature seeds of the Cucurbitaceae family.
Sexual taste returns to the meridians: melons are sweet, slightly bitter, cold, and return to the lungs, stomach, and large intestines. The hanging melon seeds are sweet in taste, cold in nature, and return to the lungs, spleen, and stomach meridians.
Efficacy: Melon seeds have the effect of clearing heat and dissolving phlegm, widening the chest and dispersing knots, moistening the intestines and laxative, and can be used for cough and phlegm, chest paralysis, chest knotting, constipation and other diseases. The hanging melon seeds have the effect of clearing the lungs and dissolving phlegm, lowering the qi and relieving cough, and can be used for **pulmonary fever cough, unfavorable phlegm, chest paralysis, constipation and other diseases.
Application: Melon seeds can be used for lung fever, cough, yellow phlegm, chest paralysis, chest knotting and other diseases. The hanging melon seeds can be used for lung fever cough, dry cough without phlegm, shortness of breath for a long time, shortness of breath and other diseases.
Contraindications: For patients with cough symptoms, the consumption of melon seeds should be avoided to avoid aggravation of cough symptoms. For patients with cough symptoms, they should avoid eating hanging melon seeds to avoid aggravating symptoms.
In addition, in terms of shape, the melon is flattened and oval, the seed coat is hard, the inner seed coat is membranous, the surface is brown, the grooves are obvious and the ring edge is wide, and the tip is flattened. The hanging melon seeds are like watermelon seeds, the size and shape are similar, fuller than watermelon seeds, and the color is more gray, and the two ends of the hanging melon seeds are open.
In general, although melon seeds and hanging melon seeds are both traditional Chinese medicinal materials, there are some differences in their **, sexual taste, efficacy and application. When using it, it needs to be selected according to the specific situation and used under the guidance of a doctor. At the same time, it is also necessary to pay attention to their contraindications to avoid adverse effects on the body.