Getting any shelter during the day time of scorching heat is no less than any blessing; if one gets any cold beverage at that time, how great it is. So, here read the advantages of such kind of fruit for the summer season which is not only eaten but also drunk as a beverage. This especial fruit of summer season is watermelon.
Watermelon is rich in taste, vitamins and minerals. This fruit contains high level of ‘Folic acid’, ‘Beta-carotenes’ and ‘Electrolytes’. Besides, it contains plenty of ‘Sodium and potassium’. In addition to maintaining health, all these minerals are enormously helpful to prevent heart diseases, arthritis, asthma and many kinds of cancer.
٭ Different researches have revealed that watermelon also contains an ingredient named ‘Lycopene’ which helps prevent the occurrence of some types of cancer in the human body.
٭ This fruit also serves as an antioxidant and boosts the immune system.
٭ Moreover, antioxidant element also saves skin from the harmful effects of sun rays.
٭ It proves helpful in treating dehydration.
٭ Its particular nutrients also help to eliminate acidity and stress.
٭ This fruit also helps to maintain skin’s moisture and freshness.
٭ It contains 92% water which prevents dehydration in the human body.
٭ It is beneficial to arteries and bones.
٭ The vitamin A contained in watermelon prevents weakness of eyesight.
٭ Vitamin B removes tiredness of the human body.
٭ Vitamin A and Vitamin C help to protect the skin and hair.
٭ It reduces body fat and it is beneficial to muscles.
٭ It digests quickly.
٭ Watermelon seeds remove body waste.
٭ Watermelon not only reduces the harmful effects of heat existing in different body organs but also removes the heat of brain.
Delicious beverage
Take a cup of watermelon juice and add some mint leaves, one teaspoon of sugar, 1 teaspoon of lemon juice, a small piece of ginger; blend them and drink it. You will remain active whole day, اِنْ شَـآءَ اللّٰە.
Best medicine for digestion problem
Grind black pepper, black cumin and salt finely and preserve it in a bottle. Sprinkle it on watermelon and eat it, it will not only increase the taste of watermelon but also it will prove to be the best medicine for digestion problem and it will also grow hunger.
Precautions
٭ Whether watermelon is eaten during the day or night; do not drink water after eating it. Sleeping immediately after eating watermelon may cause cholera disease; similarly consuming a sour and rotted watermelon may also cause cholera disease.
٭ Do not eat rice at all on the day when you eat watermelon.
٭ The people who are prone to phlegm, patients having stomach problems, patients with muscle pain, patients with frequent urination and diabetic patients should avoid eating watermelon.
٭ Eat watermelon only on an empty stomach and eat it after making it cold.
May Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ enable us to become His grateful bondman along with using blessings bestowed by Him.
اٰمِيۡن بِجَاهِ النَّبِيِّ الۡاَمِيۡن صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيۡهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم
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