Morphological characteristics: Cucurbitaceae is an annual creeping herb. There are translucent coarse hairs on the stem. Tendrils bifurcate. Leaves papery, triangular or ovate. Flowers monoecious, solitary, yellow. The shape of fruit varies with varieties, and the seeds are white.

Habitat distribution: It is cultivated all over the world.

Uses: Fruits are used as vegetables. This species is a variety of zucchini and can also be used as an ornamental plant.

"Beigua" is a semi-wild plant. Because of its low yield, it is not as sweet as watermelon, sweet as wax gourd and high as pumpkin, so people don't know much about it.

Beigua is shaped like a pumpkin but smaller, also known as peach pumpkin, and its skin color is red and yellow like gold, so it is also called golden melon. Sweet and non-toxic, it has the effect of moistening lung and relieving asthma. People in China often treat asthma.

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Pumpkin (fenugreek) is commonly known as gourd and pumpkin. Originally from South America, it was introduced to China. Annual creeping herb. The stem is several meters long, takes root at the nodes, is stout, wrinkled, short and stiff, and the tendrils are divided into 3-4 forks. Simple leaves alternate, heart-shaped or broadly ovate, 5-lobed and 5-angled, slightly soft, 15 ~ 30 cm long, densely covered on both sides, with white spots on the leaf margin and irregular serrations on the edge. Flowers are solitary and monoecious. Male receptacle short. Calyx lobes are linear, and the top expands into leaves. Corolla bell-shaped, yellow, 5-cleft, lobes abduction, with crepe. Three stamens. Anthers connivent, regular S-shaped. The calyx of female flower is obviously split, the ovary is round or oval, the cell is 1, the style is short, there are 3 stigmas and 2 lobes. Fruits are oblate, pot-shaped, cylindrical and so on. There are longitudinal grooves and protrusions on the surface, smooth or tumor-like protrusions. Like orange petals, from orange yellow to orange red. The fruit stalk has a groove, and the pedicel expands into a trumpet. The seeds are ovoid or ovoid, 1.5 ~ 2 cm long, grayish white or yellowish white, with thin edges. The flowering period is from May to July, and the fruiting period is from July to September. Originated in South Asia, it is cultivated all over the world. Fruits are used as vegetables; Seeds are edible with oil, and seeds (pumpkin seeds) and pedicels are often used as medicine, which can repel insects, strengthen the spleen and breastfeed.

Pumpkin contains starch, protein, carotene, vitamin B, vitamin C, calcium and phosphorus. Rich in nutrition, rural people often eat it, and urban people pay more and more attention to it. Not only has high edible value. It also has a dietotherapy effect that cannot be ignored. According to "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica", pumpkin is warm, sweet and non-toxic. Into the spleen and stomach, it can moisten the lungs and replenish qi, eliminate phlegm and concentrate, expel worms and detoxify, treat cough and asthma, treat lung abscess and constipation, and has diuretic and beauty effects. In recent years, the research experiments of medical experts and scholars at home and abroad show that eating pumpkin can also treat prostate hypertrophy (pumpkin seeds can treat prostate hypertrophy), prevent prostate cancer, prevent arteriosclerosis and gastric ulcer, treat diabetes and dissolve stones.

This family belongs to the fruit of Cucurbitaceae pumpkin.

Alias pumpkin, pumpkin, wheat melon and rice melon.

Warm and sweet in nature; Enter the spleen and stomach meridian.

Efficacy is mainly used to tonify the middle energizer, detoxify and kill insects, lower blood sugar and quench thirst. Indications: Chronic disease of qi deficiency, spleen and stomach weakness, shortness of breath and burnout, loose stool's disease, diabetes, ascaris and other diseases.

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