Winter Melon also known as wax gourd or ash gourd is a hairy creeper herb. It closely resembles a pumpkin, being a grey coloured big fruit (or vegetable), which has many different medicinal usages.
Ash gourd or Winter melon
Various studies have revealed that ash gourd or white gourd has a good amount of moisture along with a moderate composition of proteins, fibre, and carbohydrates, while the seeds contain pale yellow oil in them. Winter melon’s mineral contents are calcium, phosphorus, thiamine, iron, riboflavin and niacin. Wax gourd especially contains a fairly decent level of vitamin C.
Ash gourd is a very good diet food for reducing weight and excessive unnecessary fat. Since it is low in calories, it is useful for overweight people and diabetics. It increases libido and helps in treating hysteria and paroxysms.
Winter Melon Seed (Benincasa hispida; Wax gourd; Dong Gua Zi) 5:1 Extract Powder 100 gm: V
Wax gourd is shredded and the juice is taken from it. To this juice, equal amount of water is added to prepare a liquid. This prepared liquid is generally consumed in the morning on an empty stomach to cure peptic ulcers. A measure of about 200 ml is the suggested level of intake for such a prepared ash gourd juice mixture. Any other food should not be taken for the next three hours after taking this juice to obtain a good result in curing peptic ulcers.
Winter melon vegetable is a blood coagulant. Its fresh juice is mixed with a teaspoon of amla (Indian gooseberry) juice or lime juice to be used for arresting the bleeding from the nose, the lungs, due to piles and haematuria, a disease caused by the presence of blood cells in the urine.
For a non-diabetic but underweight person, this herb is useful to increase the weight. While this may sound contradictory to my earlier claim of winter melon helping overweight people lose weight, I assure you that this wax gourd is capable of bringing about both these contrasting changes.
Winter Melon Peel (Benincasa hispida; Wax gourd; Dong Gua Pi) Cut & Sifted: 1 lb: V
The flesh of this vegetable, after removing the seeds, has to be boiled in water for 15 minutes and then cooled. Then the pieces are mixed with sugar and heated again till sugar dissolves to become a sticky content. This is then allowed this to cool down to get sweetened ash gourd pieces, which have the amazing potential to help regain the lost weight in the case of underweight people, especially those suffering from tuberculosis. The above prepared ash gourd pieces can also be consumed to bring down the body heat, sparseness of semen and when suffering from anaemia.
When husked seeds of winter melon are mixed with coconut milk and consumed, it removes tapeworm and any other similar worms or infections from the intestines. The skin and seeds of ash gourd are boiled with coconut oil and this oil content is then applied on the head & scalp as it helps to promote the hair growth while averting the presence dandruff and dry scalp problems.
Winter Melon Seed (Benincasa hispida; Wax gourd; Dong Gua Zi) 500 gm (1.17 lb): V
Ash gourd is primarily utilized in culinary activities. It has powerful diuretic characteristics, which act to increase the urination frequency and thereby to remove all the wastes and toxins from the body.
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