Ingredients: 500 grams of fresh pumpkin, 20 grams of jujube and appropriate amount of brown sugar.

Practice: Wash the pumpkin, peel and cut into pieces, wash the jujube, remove the core, and put it in the pot for decoction. Add brown sugar and mix well after cooking. Eating jujube and pumpkin porridge together can replenish qi and blood, which is good for relieving cough and resolving phlegm, and is also a recipe suitable for people with chronic bronchitis.

Steamed pumpkin with honey and ginger sauce

Ingredients: Take 500g pumpkin, 50g rock sugar, 50g honey, and squeeze a proper amount of ginger juice.

Practice: Wash the surface of pumpkin, remove the pulp and seeds of pumpkin, put ginger juice, crystal sugar and honey into the concave part of pumpkin, and steam in a steamer for 2 hours. This prescription, once a day, has the function of moistening lung and tonifying kidney, and also has certain improvement and conditioning effect on cough and expectoration.

Dietary taboos for eating pumpkin

Vinegar is very similar to pumpkin: when eaten together, acetic acid destroys the nutrients in pumpkin.

Carp and pumpkin are very similar: the same food can also be poisoned.

Crabs and pumpkins are very similar: they will be poisoned when eaten together.

Pumpkins are mixed with foods rich in vitamin C.