Which one (or both?) is a diuretic, the red or the yellow?
Also "an extreme diuretic and I avoid it at night except when in tropical climates when you lose a lot of water through sweating" seems to be contradictory as you do not want diuretic (which causes you to lose water) when you lose a lot of water through sweating. Please explain.
I am sorry. Let me illustrate exactly. Dragon fruit contains vitamin C, potassium and magnesium and plenty of other vitamins and minerals but those three are extremely diuretic in nature. However if you are in a tropical climate like Vietnam or another southeast Asian land and the sun and heat are so intense and you take in dragon fruit or the like to hydrate but you are sweating profusely, well you lost most of your water through the sweating process and there is less fluid within your system to expel through the process of urination. In fact it is so hot sometimes and you sweat so much, you might urinate but once a day. But that only really applies if you are in southeast asia living like nature intended, exposed to the heat and jungle conditions and walking and working and sweating as opposed to eating dragon fruit (a diuretic) and staying in an air-conditioned room watching television.
But if you eat dragon fruit or watermelon or another high water and mineral based fruit at nighttime (which is ill-advised under the guidelines of oriental medicine) when the intense sun is no longer facing the earth, there is no catalyst to invoke extreme sweating to rid your body of water and then the kidneys do all the work of excreting the excess water through urination which might cause the problem of interrupted sleep to expel urine.
I only sampled the yellow variety in small quantities in New York which is not a true test so I cannot speak to it's over or under diuretic qualities as compared to the red variety which I consumed as a staple for hydration when exposed to the extreme heat of southeast Asia. But they are probably quite similar.
Many years ago before importation from distant lands people lived in harmony with their environments. Many poorer countries still do because they cannot afford importation and further there is no need to import because nature provides a plethora of vegetation all around them. Go to any hot island nation and the sun is intense and the fruit is huge, sweet, water and vitamin laden and abundant. Nature provided plantation opposite to the hot sun to cool you down and hydrate and to make balance.
In the northeast where we are, almost no extremely rich succulent fruits and vegetation exist indigenously. We have here berries, apples, peaches, plums, corn, potatoes, squashes, beans, lots of greens and only in the hot summer, watermelons. EVERYTHNG else we have only by importation from other states and distant lands or by greenhouses or vegetation forced by artificial chemicals.
We in the northeast no longer live in harmony with local vegetation as they do in other countries mostly because all the farms are replaced by malls and AMP'S -- (hahaha just kidding). But Long Island a few years back had plenty of farms. The true indigenous people in our area of course were the native American Indians and they had plenty of corn, potatoes, squashes (pumpkins, gourds, etc.) beans, greens, roots, herbs, berries, fish, clams, seafood and some land animals. But now we import everything from distant areas halfway around the world so we forgot the effects of local foods on our systems .
But all that being said, Dragon Fruit is considered very healthy to remove waste from the small and large intestines and vitamin and mineral rich, great for prostate, anti-cancerous, antioxidant and cleansing. In the hot summer it is best eaten as is watermelon and watermelon is rich in L-citrulline which increases nitric oxide which very much wakes up your junior member. The better watermelon would be that which still has the black seeds as it is considered more potent and less tampered with genetically.
