A species of Cucurbitaceae genus, an annual creeping herb, usually with roots at nodes, stout petioles, wide oval or oval leaves, slightly soft texture, bulging veins, slightly thick tendrils, monoecious, thick pedicels, edges and grooves, which vary from species to species. There are often several longitudinal grooves or no longitudinal grooves outside, and most seeds are oval or oblong.
Introduced to China in Ming Dynasty, it is now widely planted in north and south. This fruit can be used as a substitute for a dish or food. All parts of the whole plant are also used for medicine. The seeds contain amino acids in pumpkin seeds, and have the effects of clearing away heat, removing dampness, expelling worms, controlling and killing Schistosoma japonicum, clearing vines, preventing miscarriage and radically curing toothache.
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Pumpkin has four health-preserving effects.
First, nursed back to health pumpkin: Pumpkin is also a good food for nursed back to health. Pumpkin is rich in provitamin A, which can participate in the normal metabolism of gastric epithelial tissue, protect gastric mucosa and promote ulcer healing. Pectin can protect the digestive tract from the stimulation of coarse food and prevent gastritis and gastric ulcer; Mannitol in pumpkin has laxative effect, which can reduce the harm of toxins in feces to human body and prevent colon cancer.
2. Pumpkin protects kidney: Eating pumpkin has many benefits. From the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine, pumpkin has the functions of tonifying middle energizer, diminishing inflammation and relieving pain, detoxifying and killing insects, lowering blood sugar and quenching thirst. Modern medical research has proved that pectin in pumpkin can help people with impaired liver and kidney function to enhance the regeneration ability of liver and kidney cells.
Third, pumpkin and diabetes: pumpkin is rich in vitamin A, vitamin C and vitamin E, which can promote insulin secretion; Pectin in pumpkin can delay the emptying of food and the absorption of sugar in intestine, thus controlling the increase of blood sugar. In addition, the mineral cobalt contained in pumpkin is necessary for insulin cells to synthesize insulin. Therefore, diabetics should eat some food made of pumpkin properly.
Fourth, pay attention to the matching of edible pumpkins: eat pumpkins and mung beans together, effectively lowering blood sugar. Pumpkin is rich in pectin, which can regulate the stomach's absorption of food, reduce or delay the intestinal absorption of glucose and cholesterol, and effectively lower blood sugar. But eating pumpkin and mutton together is easy to cause bloating and constipation; Pumpkin can't replenish qi, mutton is hot and can replenish deficiency. Eating together will block the qi of the gastrointestinal tract and cause diseases such as abdominal distension and constipation.
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