Du Chong: Pumpkin seeds have a good killing effect on Schistosoma japonicum larvae, and have a remarkable effect on pinworm and pinworm patients (the method is to swallow pumpkin seeds after chewing on an empty stomach).
Treatment of hypertension: Eating more pumpkins (especially raw or steamed to half-cooked) can lower blood pressure.
Treatment of asthma: steamed pumpkin mixed with honey, once in the morning and evening, for a long time.
Treatment of chronic cough: fry the head of pumpkin vine, put it in a bottle, let its juice flow in, and take the juice with boiling water after 24 hours.
Treatment of edema, ascites and dysuria: grind pumpkin pedicle into powder and take it with warm water three times a day, 2 grams each time.
Treatment of inertial abortion: 3 pumpkin pedicels, Coix seed 120g, decocted in water for several days.
Treatment of burns and scalds: Mash pumpkin to get juice and apply it to the wound. You can also apply pumpkin vine juice to the wound three times a day.
Treatment of bronchial asthma and chronic bronchitis in the elderly: 500 grams of fresh pumpkin, 20 red dates and appropriate amount of yellow sugar, and boiled soup twice a day.
Treatment of dysentery: pumpkin leaves decoction.
Pain relief: cooked melon meat can be applied to the affected area, diminishing inflammation and relieving pain.
Pumpkin, a vine of Cucurbitaceae, is a vegetable when tender. Old melon can replace grain as the staple food, also known as "rice melon". Originated in South Asia, there are many varieties, the most representative of which are Chinese pumpkin, Indian pumpkin and American pumpkin. Pumpkin has a long history of cultivation in China. According to the records of Shengjing Tongzhi, it was named pumpkin because it came from the south. It is also recorded in the dietary instructions of the Ming Dynasty that pumpkins are sweet in taste, warm in nature and enter the spleen, so there is a proverb that "you don't need to catch Chinese medicine when you are half a melon in hot weather". Modern medical and nutritional research has confirmed that pumpkin is not only sweet and delicious, rich in nutrition, but also has high medicinal value. In West Zhang Cun, Hokkaido, residents there like to eat pumpkins at least once a day, and there are no diabetics among the villagers. A famous Japanese urologist, Fukuyama, once asked a certain number of diabetic patients to eat pumpkin 100-500 grams every day. After a month's test, the blood sugar of all the testers decreased to varying degrees, and their condition improved obviously. As a result, pumpkin consumption boom has been set off in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan Province Province and other countries and regions. A large number of clinical scientific investigations have confirmed that pumpkin has a significant auxiliary dietotherapy effect on diabetes, and it is a new way for diabetic patients to dietotherapy. Yu Ruomu, a famous nutritionist, mentioned in his speech "A major breakthrough in diabetes prevention and treatment-a press conference of Jiangtangbaoxing" that pumpkin itself contains hypoglycemic factors and is the first choice for diabetic patients as an auxiliary diet. Therefore, pumpkin is praised as "super health food" by medical circles at home and abroad, and its medicinal value lies in:
1. Prevention and treatment of diabetes: Pumpkin is rich in dietary fiber and pectin. When eaten with food, it can improve the viscosity of stomach contents, regulate the absorption of food in the stomach, slow down the absorption of carbohydrates, increase the release of insulin, reduce or delay the absorption of glucose and cholesterol in the intestine, and inhibit the secretion of glucohormones in the gastrointestinal system, thus lowering blood sugar. Chromium is an essential factor to help insulin secretion, which can accelerate the oxidation of blood sugar to carbon dioxide and improve the persistence of blood sugar; This is also one of the mechanisms of pumpkin in preventing and treating diabetes. The hypoglycemic factor CTY contained in pumpkin can promote the synthesis of human pancreatic protein GLUT-2, which can promote the secretion of insulin and transport blood glucose to β cells, thus reducing blood sugar content and effectively preventing and treating diabetes.
2. Prevention of cardiovascular diseases: Pumpkin is a food with high potassium and low sodium. The average potassium content in 100 g fresh melon is about 300 mg, and the high potassium content can reach 650 mg, but the sodium content is very low, accounting for about 0.4 mg. Potassium plays a role in regulating osmosis and balance in human body. High potassium and low sodium have obvious effects on preventing cardiovascular diseases and treating edema, and are suitable for patients with hypertension and nephropathy.
Third, anti-cancer and anti-cancer: there are four main aspects: 1, pumpkin contains mannitol, which has a good laxative effect, can reduce the harm of toxins in feces to the human body, and has a certain effect on preventing and treating colon cancer. 2. The derivatives of vitamin A contained in pumpkin can reduce the sensitivity of the body to carcinogens, stabilize epithelial cells and prevent them from canceration, which is the most effective for preventing lung cancer, bladder cancer and laryngeal cancer. 3. Rich vitamin C can prevent nitrate from being converted into carcinogenic nitrosamines in the digestive tract, and prevent esophageal cancer and gastric cancer. 4. Pumpkin also contains a kind of urease that can decompose nitrosamines, which is of great significance for cancer prevention.
Fourth, prevention and treatment of ulcers: the therapeutic effect of pumpkin on ulcer disease stems from containing a lot of pectin. This is because pectin can protect gastrointestinal tract from the stimulation of rough food, promote ulcer healing and inhibit excessive gastric acid secretion, so patients with ulcer disease should eat more pumpkin food. At present, Russian nutritionists have listed pumpkin as an essential part of the diet of patients with gastric and duodenal ulcers.
5. Lose weight: Eating pumpkin regularly can help obese people lose weight. According to the research report of Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and medical experts, pumpkin can lose weight because it is rich in vitamin A, soft fiber and low in sugar and calories. In Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya and other places, there are "restaurants" specializing in pumpkin cooking, and there are more than 30 kinds of pumpkin beauty foods. The "pumpkin fever" swept through Fusang.
Sixth, zinc supplementation: eating pumpkin often is beneficial to zinc supplementation. Zinc deficiency often leads to stunted growth in children, decreased sexual desire and increased blood sugar in adults. It can also cause anorexia, partial eclipse and skin diseases. 100g pumpkin contains 0.22mg of zinc, and eating pumpkin regularly can improve the above symptoms.
Medicinal function of pumpkin
Pumpkin has anticancer, antitoxin, blood pressure lowering, arteriosclerosis, diabetes, food poisoning, lung abscess, cough and asthma, postpartum hypogalactia, night blindness and stomachache.
Lung abscess: take 500 grams of pumpkin and 250 grams of beef and cook them without any seasoning twice a day for 7- 10 days. At the same time, Liuwei Dihuang Decoction was taken daily 1 dose for 7- 10 days.
In case of pesticide poisoning, shredded pumpkin and shredded radish can be taken, mashed, squeezed and taken. You can immediately induce vomiting as a temporary rescue measure, and then send it to the hospital as soon as possible.
Breast-feeding women in postpartum hypogalactia: Take raw pumpkin seeds 12g, mash them, 6g each time, and take them with rice wine on an empty stomach in the morning and evening.
People with tapeworms: Take fresh pumpkin 50- 100g (for children), grind it, add 50g of sugar, stew it with appropriate amount of water, and take it on an empty stomach in the morning 1 time.
Ascariasis: Take 500 grams of raw pumpkin (200-250 grams for children) every day and eat it raw. Take laxatives (such as rhubarb soda tablets) for 2 days after 2 hours.
Cough and expectoration: Take 1 000-1500g of old pumpkin and1,take out the pulp of south melon, put 6g of Schisandra chinensis and 60g of crystal sugar, cover the small hole dug, steam the whole pumpkin on a steamer, and then divide it into Schisandra chinensis and pumpkin twice a day.
Patients with whooping cough: Take100g pumpkin seeds, bake and grind them into fine powder, 5g each time, and take them with brown sugar water three times a day.
For pregnant women with fetal movement and red leakage, 200 grams of pumpkin pedicle can be burned into fine powder, each time 10 gram, and glutinous rice soup 2-3 times a day.
Night blindness: Take pumpkin flowers, 200g pork liver, salt and monosodium glutamate, cook them together, eat liver and drink soup.
Hiccup: Take 4-6 pumpkins and decoct them in water. Stomach ache: Take 1 small cup of fresh pumpkin vine juice and 50 ml of warm yellow wine.