Can Chinese medicine eat watermelon?

Watermelon

belongs to the same food as medicine, and its cold nature can play the role of clearing heat and diuretic, relieving summer heat and promoting salivation. Under normal circumstances, patients with internal heat in the body who need to use clearing heat and detoxifying traditional Chinese medicine for treatment can generally eat watermelon in an appropriate amount, and there is no damage to the body. However, for patients with deficiency cold in human body and need to use hot and warm tonic traditional Chinese medicine for treatment, it is generally not recommended to eat watermelon, because the cold qi of watermelon may affect the efficacy, even cause weakness of spleen and stomach, causing diarrhea and discomfort.