Watermelon
For Chinese dietary therapy, Watermelon (西瓜) is a food of Cool nature and Sweet flavor. The emblematic summer fruit of traditional dietetics, described as very cool and fluid-generating.
Traditional energetics
- Nature
- Cool
- Flavor
- Sweet
- Affinity
- Heart · Stomach · Bladder
- Direction of Qi
- Descending · cools
- Season
- Summer
- Group
- Fruit
How tradition reads it
The emblematic summer fruit of traditional dietetics, described as very cool and fluid-generating.
Classic alone or with mint at the height of summer; tradition avoids it right after very rich meals or in digestion described as cold.
In the kitchen
Fresh in summer; the white rind appears in some stir-fries and pickles.
Commonly available; no substitute needed.
Current nutrition note
Over 90 percent water and a source of lycopene.
Precautions
Refrigerate cut watermelon and eat it soon; adapt piece size for children and portions with diabetes.
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