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Useful properties of a melon

Advantage of a melon – in its structure. It contains cellulose, potassium, PP, B, C vitamins, carotene, phosphorus, copper, silicon, magnesium, calcium, organic acids, carbohydrates.

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Silicon well affects a condition of hair, skin, magnesium is useful to blood supply and a cardiac muscle, vitamin C stimulates immunity, supports a nervous system, carotene improves complexion and sight.

Thanks to folic acid the following useful properties of a melon are shown: improves mood, increases emotional steadiness, helps at disturbances of a menstrual cycle.

Melon caloric content – 33 kcal in 100gr pulp.

Use of a melon

It is regular recommend to use a melon at atherosclerosis, exhaustion, liver diseases, stones in kidneys, a bladder.

Pulp of a melon is well acquired, stimulates function of intestines, helps at different disturbances of digestion.

The use of this fruit reduces toxicity of antibiotics therefore for prevention of their harm the melon is recommended to accept that who undergoes a long antibioticotherapia.

Advise is a melon to pregnant women – for prevention of locks, hemorrhoids, treatment of an anemia.

The melon juice mixed with parsley decoction helps at an urolithiasis, and in pure form – at cold and infection with worms. For exile of parasites it is recommended to drink one glass of melon juice on an empty stomach in the morning. This means is especially useful for children – juice is nice to the taste, harmless and vitamin-rich.

Useful properties of a melon are shown also at its external use. The chest compress from pulp of a fruit improves a state at an asthmatic attack, bronchitis, pneumonia. Also pulp and a melon peel can be put to bruises, abscesses on skin – so they will pass quicker.

The melon peel is useful thanks to the chlorophyll which is contained in it. It is recommended to use the pure and crushed peel or to carefully eat away pulp – to the crust.

Thanks to low caloric content the melon is successfully used for weight loss. The melon diet is expected a month. For breakfast it is necessary to eat 300 g of a melon, the lunch can be made from usual products, excluding only sweets and flour products (it is recommended to have dinner only in about three hours after a breakfast). For dinner it is necessary to be limited to a melon again, it is impossible to jam and wash down it. Thanks to useful properties the melon helps not only to dump 6-8kg in a month, but also to clean intestines.

The melon bathtub helps to remove an attack of an allergy: in the warm, heated to 37 °C water pour in a glass of juice of a melon, lower a melon peel or pieces of fruit.

Advantage of a melon not only in pulp or a peel, but also in its seeds. The dried-up and crushed melon seeds are effective at a bad potentiality. For treatment of this illness it is recommended to accept powder from melon seeds three times a day on the 1st teaspoon.

Infusion of melon sunflower seeds can be applied as diuretic. For infusion preparation the tablespoon of seeds is filled in with a glass of boiled water, kept three hours in the warm. It is necessary to accept infusion 5 times a day on 100 ml.

The advantage of a melon is known also in cosmetology. It is noted that masks from a melon tone up and nourish face skin and lips. After a month of the constant use of melon pulp as masks outward of skin considerably improves, its elasticity increases.

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Contraindications

Despite the low caloric content, a melon it is not recommended to apply at a diabetes mellitus – it is up to the end not found out as the sugars and carbohydrates which are contained in it influence sugar in blood. The melon can do notable harm to those in whom the GIT ulcer is found.

It is impossible to combine a melon and alcohol, acid milk and cold water. It is undesirable to use it right after food. In order to avoid harm it is desirable to eat a melon in a break between meals during the day.

 
 
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