Pumpkin food has low water content and high dry matter content. Among the contents of non-reducing sugar and starch, starch accounts for more than 1 of total sugar, with less fiber and more vitamin A and vitamin C. It is a very good health care product. In addition, pumpkin is also rich in helium acid, carotene and vitamin B family, which is a very good food. Chen Xiuyuan, a famous doctor in Qing Dynasty, said, "Pumpkin is a good product for enriching blood".
Pumpkin is sweet, warm and enters the spleen and stomach; Has the effects of invigorating middle energizer, invigorating qi, diminishing inflammation, relieving pain, detoxicating, killing insects, lowering blood sugar and quenching thirst. Indications: qi deficiency due to chronic illness, spleen and stomach weakness, shortness of breath, burnout, loose stool's disease, diabetes, ascaris, etc.
1. Detoxification: Pumpkin contains vitamins and pectin, which has good adsorption, can combine and eliminate bacterial toxins and other harmful substances in the body, such as lead, mercury and radioactive elements in heavy metals, and can play a role in detoxification.
2, protect the gastric mucosa, help digestion: the pectin contained in pumpkin can also protect the gastric mucosa, avoid the stimulation of rough food, promote ulcer healing, and is suitable for patients with gastric diseases. Pumpkin contains ingredients that can promote bile secretion, strengthen gastrointestinal peristalsis and help food digestion.
3. Prevent diabetes and lower blood sugar: Pumpkin is rich in cobalt, which can activate human metabolism, promote hematopoietic function and participate in the synthesis of vitamin B 12 in human body. It is an essential trace element for human islet cells and has special effects on preventing diabetes and lowering blood sugar.
4. Elimination of carcinogens: Pumpkin can eliminate the mutation of nitrosamine, which is a carcinogen, has the function of preventing cancer, and can help the recovery of liver and kidney functions and enhance the regeneration ability of liver and kidney cells.
5. Promote growth and development: Pumpkin is rich in zinc and participates in the synthesis of nucleic acid and protein in human body. It is an inherent component of adrenocortical hormone and an important substance for human growth and development.
6, blood: pumpkin is a good product for blood, often eat pumpkin, can make the stool smooth, skin rich, especially for women, have a cosmetic effect. Therefore, young mothers can eat pumpkins with their children.
Eating pumpkin is taboo: eating too much is not good.
When pumpkin is eaten too much, when β -carotene is ingested too much, β -carotene will be deposited in the stratum corneum of epidermis. Therefore, the nose, people, forehead, palms, soles of feet, around eyes, next to nails, around joints, or where the skin wrinkles are the most, the skin will turn lemon yellow and look like jaundice. This symptom is called carotene xanthoderma.
In a word, pumpkin is a treasure, and its nutritional and medicinal value is increasingly recognized by people. Pumpkin is rich in nutrition, especially the content of carotene (provitamin A) ranks first among melons. Pumpkin is warm and sweet, non-toxic, has the function of tonifying the middle energizer, and is a good product for invigorating qi and nourishing the heart. Pumpkin is commonly used by the people to treat diabetes, and it also has a certain effect on pertussis, diphtheria, erysipelas and chilblain. Wash pumpkin, slice it, add honey or rock sugar and cook it. Suitable for cough and asthma. Cooked with beef, it can be used to treat lung abscess.