Xi Gua - Watermelon (Fructus Citrulli)

Properties: Cold, Sweet. Channels: Urinary Bladder, Heart, Stomach

Action and indication: Clears summerheat, generates fluids: fever, irritability, thirst, lack of urine, dry heaves. (Qing Luo Yin, Qing Shu Yi QI Tang)  

Drains damp-heat: jaundice.

Contraindicated for damp-Cold, middle jiao Cold deficiency.

Dose: 15-30 g;   1 cup fresh juice. 

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