The word "pumpkin" can especially refer to Chinese pumpkin in the genus Cucurbita, and can also refer to other cultivated species of Cucurbita including bamboo shoots (Indian pumpkin) and zucchini (American pumpkin). The names of producing areas are different, also known as Maiguo, Papaya, Pirate, Jindongguo, Minnan, Hakka, Carassius auratus and Jinhua, and are also called "Beike" in Hunan and Changde.

Pumpkin mung bean = Buzhong Yiqi, and hot-produced pumpkin can supplement Zhongqi Yiqi and lower blood sugar. Mung bean has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, and it has a good health care function when eaten with pumpkin. Pumpkin pork = nutrition increases, and hypoglycemia pumpkin has hypoglycemic effect. Pork is rich in nutrition and has nourishing effect. Quantum formula has a good effect on health care and prevention of diabetes. Pumpkin yam = fresh breath, strong kidney and spleen.

Pumpkin is beneficial to human body, including polysaccharides, amino acids, active protein carotenoids and various trace elements. Efficacy of various components: Pumpkin polysaccharide is a non-specific immune enhancer, which can improve the immune function of the body, promote the production of cytokines, and play a variety of regulatory functions on the immune system through complement activation. Pumpkin is rich in carotenoids, which can be converted into vitamin A with important physiological functions in the body, and has important physiological functions for the growth and differentiation of epithelial tissues, maintaining normal vision and promoting bone development.

Pumpkin contains calcium, high potassium and low sodium, which is especially suitable for middle-aged and elderly people and patients with hypertension and helps to prevent osteoporosis and hypertension. In addition, it also includes phosphorus, magnesium, iron, copper, manganese, chromium, boron and other elements. Pumpkin contains many kinds of amino acids needed by human body, including lysine, leucine, isoleucine, phenylalanine, threonine and so on. In addition, the genotype of ascorbate oxidase in pumpkin is the same as that in tobacco, but its activity is obviously higher than that in tobacco, so the content of immunocompetent protein in amber is higher. The lipid substances in pumpkin seeds have good therapeutic and preventive effects on urinary system diseases and prostatic hyperplasia. Pumpkin is one of the common melons and vegetables in our life. It tastes sweet and has rich nutrition. Eating pumpkin can prevent and treat many diseases. Diet therapy is of great value.