Watermelon Health

    Everyone has long known that vegetables should be used in a certain period of time, this must be clearly aware of what kind of maturity to use a certain vegetable. For example, a family of melons - melons and watermelons - should be eaten as food in the summer and autumn.

    The main thing that watermelon was ripe, ripeness is determined by the sound. If you knock on a watermelon with his finger and hear the hollow sound, it means a watermelon is ripe, but if you do not hear a thud - a watermelon has not yet reached full maturity.

    So what is so useful to the famous watermelon, which was introduced to Europe from the far South Africa in ancient times of the Crusades?


    First, watermelon, oddly enough is a diuretic, that is, helps the body to prevent the formation of "sand" in the kidneys.

    In the ranking of fruits and vegetables in their iron content watermelon is an honorable third place, and it contains a large amount of folic acid.

    Fresh green watermelon rind, or dried are often used in folk medicine for the treatment of colitis in children.
He also highly recommended in clinical nutrition for people with diseases of the cardiovascular system, with stones in the gall bladder and urinary tract, anemia, liver and kidney diseases.

    Also beneficial effects of consumption of watermelon in a food has on people with gout, arthritis and multiple sclerosis. Do not forget that the diuretic property has not only watermelon juice, and dried and fresh watermelon rind, from which a decoction is prepared 1:10.

    Do not forget that watermelon is an excellent dessert and has a large amount of sugar, so you can have people who have low blood sugar.

    A preserves, jams, honey and fruit drinks from watermelon good cheer up. Here is how wonderful healer is this striped one!