我国中医很重视用蔬菜来治疗一些疾病。俗话说,“对症吃药能治病,而对症吃菜也能治病”,其实不少蔬菜也是药材。如冬瓜含有维生素C、磷、钙、碳水化合物等,其性寒凉,是老幼成宜的盛夏佳菜。《本草纲自》认为冬瓜性寒能泻热,味甘能益脾,并有利二便、消肿、消渴、散热毒痈肿等功效,冬瓜的皮、子、肉、瓤、藤、叶皆可入药,盛夏多喝冬瓜汤,能解暑清热,止渴利尿;患有慢性肾炎和妊娠水肿,也宜食冬瓜;冬瓜子做为味药治疗痰热咳嗽、肺痈、 Chinese medicine attaches great importance to the use of vegetables to treat some diseases. As the saying goes, “symptomatic medication can cure, and symptomatic eating can cure”, in fact, many vegetables are also herbs. Such as melon contains vitamin C, phosphorus, calcium, carbohydrates, etc., its sexual cold, young and old Chengyi good summer vegetables. “Compendium of Materia Medica” that cold winter melon can be hot and cold, sweet to benefit the spleen, and the benefits of two will, swelling, thirst, heat poisonous swollen and other effects, melon skin, child, meat, raccoon, rattan, leaves Can be used as medicine, drink melon soup in midsummer, can relieve summer heat, thirst quencher diuretic; suffering from chronic nephritis and gestational edema, but also should eat melon; winter melon seeds as a herbal medicine to treat phlegm cough,