Pumpkins ripen in August and September every year and can be stored until the end of the year. Pumpkin is rich in protein carotene, starch, fat and sugar, and zinc, a trace element necessary for human hematopoiesis. Pumpkin has the functions of diminishing inflammation and relieving pain, clearing away heat and toxic materials, nourishing the heart and lungs, enhancing the resistance of mucosa and skin, and effectively preventing colds. Pumpkin can also resist oxidation, prevent human aging and prevent stroke. In terms of disease resistance, pumpkin belongs to detoxification food. You should eat more. Usually, the best way to eat pumpkin is to stew it with meat, make soup, or steam it directly. If it is necessary for health care, steaming is the best. If pumpkin is mixed with mushrooms and mung beans with the same detoxification function, the detoxification function will be greatly enhanced. It is now advocated to detoxify the body once a week, which can be the first choice.

Pumpkin, commonly known as melon, is the most common daily vegetable, but it can also be called a good food with good quality and low price. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that pumpkins can "supplement the middle". Medical Forest Collection records that it can "replenish qi and astringe lung". Chinese medicine believes that pumpkin has the functions of "diminishing inflammation and relieving pain, detoxifying and benefiting blood, nourishing heart and tonifying lung".

A folk song on the rooftop said, "Eating pumpkin with black powder head makes people hang cattle ..."

In a village in Shuinan, our county, some farmers have the habit of eating pumpkins for a long time. A teacher Chen, who is interested in health care research, once made a preliminary investigation in a village in Shuinan, and confirmed that the villagers who ate pumpkin for a long time were tall and strong, with few anemia, even heart disease, pneumonia, lung disease and other diseases, and the longevity rate was high.

In recent years, some nutritionists and pharmacists have found that pumpkin contains citrulline, carotene, Ophiopogon japonicus, trigonelline, vitamins B, C and fat, which can promote human insulin secretion. It can nourish blood and heart, disinfect and benefit the lungs. It has certain preventive and therapeutic effects on diabetes, hypertension and some liver and kidney diseases.

Pumpkin is rich in sugar, starch and protein, and also contains trace elements of cobalt and zinc, so it has high nutritional value. It can be called a weight-loss food with a hundred benefits and no harm.

There is an early folk song about the beauty of pumpkin dietotherapy: "Eat pumpkin, you can dietotherapy; Enriching blood, with high efficacy. Nourish the heart and lungs and moisten the throat; Healthy spleen and stomach, good health ... "(