Potted chestnut pumpkin
First, the efficacy of pumpkin
Pumpkin is rich in carbohydrates, protein, vitamins C and E, mineral elements such as carotene, calcium and cobalt, and active ingredients such as mannitol and citrulline.
1. Pumpkin is rich in pectin, has good adsorption, can bind toxins, bacteria or heavy metals in the body, and has a good detoxification effect;
2. The content of cobalt in pumpkin is very high. Cobalt can promote body metabolism and participate in the synthesis of vitamin B 12, which has a positive effect on treating diabetes and lowering blood sugar.
3. Vitamin C and amino acids in pumpkin can prevent rough skin, delay skin aging, accelerate cell repair and enhance skin elasticity, especially suitable for women.
4. Pumpkin is rich in polysaccharide, which is a non-specific immune enhancer and can improve the body's immunity;
5. Pumpkin contains carotene and lycopene active substances, which has a certain effect on preventing breast cancer, ovarian cancer and male prostate cancer.
Efficacy
Pumpkin, originating from Mexico to Central America, is widely cultivated all over the world and is one of our daily vegetables. Pumpkin has the effects of lowering blood sugar and blood pressure, expelling toxin, caring skin, strengthening body, invigorating spleen and regulating stomach, and can be used for treating diabetes, hypertension, constipation and hypoimmunity.
1. Reducing blood sugar and blood pressure
Cobalt in pumpkin can promote body metabolism, reduce blood sugar and treat diabetes, while pumpkin eaten raw or semi-cooked can obviously reduce serum cholesterol and triglyceride, which can prevent the formation of thrombosis.
2. Detoxify and beautify
The rich pectin in pumpkin can adsorb harmful microorganisms and heavy metals in the body, and help toxins to be discharged to achieve the purpose of detoxification. In addition, vitamin C and amino acids in pumpkin have good effects on protecting skin, accelerating skin repair and enhancing skin elasticity.
Step 3 keep fit
Polysaccharide, vitamins, calcium, zinc and other minerals in pumpkin can promote metabolism, improve immune function, promote cytokine production and strengthen physique.
4. Spleen and stomach
Pectin in pumpkin can not only help discharge heavy metals, but also protect gastric mucosa, prevent rough food injury and promote ulcer wound healing. Pumpkin is warm and sweet, which has a certain effect on improving spleen and stomach deficiency and cold.
5. Prevent gout
Pumpkin is an alkaline food and contains almost no purine, which is beneficial to the acid-base balance in the body and promotes the excretion of uric acid, and has a certain therapeutic effect on gout.
Step 6 Prevent cancer
Mannitol in pumpkin can relieve constipation and detoxify, reduce the harm of toxins in feces to the body, and prevent the incidence of colon cancer.
Second, the efficacy of pumpkin seeds
Pumpkin seeds, also known as pumpkin kernel, golden melon seeds and white melon seeds, are dried seeds of Cucurbitaceae plant pumpkin, which are picked after the pumpkin matures, washed and dried. Sweet and smooth in nature, oily, it enters the stomach and intestines, and has the effects of killing insects, moistening the intestines, relaxing bowels, sucking milk, strengthening the spleen and inducing diuresis. Pumpkin seeds are essential nutrients for maintaining the normal function of the nervous system and contribute to the production of aminobutyric acid. When the brain is nervous or in other unfavorable state, it can improve the emergency ability of the brain. Pumpkin seed is also a very good natural food for men. The formation of high content of zinc and dehydroepiandrosterone is helpful to prevent prostate cancer. Pumpkin seed extract and pumpkin seed can also treat benign prostatic hyperplasia.
Third, the efficacy of pumpkin skin
Don't peel the pumpkin when you eat it. The pumpkin skin has so many functions. It is sweet and warm, and enters the spleen and stomach. Has the effects of invigorating middle energizer, invigorating qi, diminishing inflammation, relieving pain, detoxicating, killing insects, reducing blood sugar and quenching thirst; Indications are qi deficiency due to chronic illness, weakness of spleen and stomach, shortness of breath, burnout, loose stool's disease, diabetes, ascaris and other diseases.
1, prevention and treatment of diabetes, lowering 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 curative effect on preventing and treating diabetes and lowering blood sugar.
2, eliminate carcinogens:
Pumpkin can eliminate the mutation of nitrosamine, which is a carcinogen, has anti-cancer effect, and can help the recovery of liver and kidney function and enhance the regeneration ability of liver and kidney cells.
3, detoxification:
Pumpkin contains vitamins and pectin, which has good adsorption, can bind 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 detoxification role;
4. Protect gastric mucosa and help digestion:
Pectin contained in pumpkin can also protect gastric mucosa from the stimulation of coarse food and promote ulcer healing, which is suitable for patients with gastric diseases. The components contained in pumpkin can promote bile secretion, strengthen gastrointestinal peristalsis and help food digestion;
5. Promote growth and development:
Pumpkin is rich in zinc, which 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.
Fourth, the efficacy of pumpkin seedlings
This pumpkin seedling, also called pumpkin vine, has the functions of clearing away lung heat, harmonizing stomach and dredging collaterals. Clinically, it is often used for tuberculosis, low fever, stomachache, irregular menstruation, scald and other diseases, and it is non-toxic and has almost no side effects.
The benefits of eating pumpkin seedlings:
1, pumpkin vine leaves are rich in nutrition: fresh vine leaves contain 82.5% water; The dry matter contains crude protein 7.5% ~ 8.6%, crude fat 4.6 ~ 5.2%, crude fiber 26% ~ 32%, nitrogen-free extract 38% ~ 46%, crude ash 8% ~10%, calcium 0.36%, phosphorus 0.09%, and vitamins C, A and C. There are 10 amino acids such as lysine in the crude protein.
2. Pumpkin seedlings are not only delicious, tasty and unique in flavor, but also nutritious, rich in chlorophyll and various essential amino acids, minerals and vitamins. Often eaten, it has certain curative effect on diabetes, arteriosclerosis, digestive tract ulcer and other diseases. It is a popular dish on people's table. The vegetables that Guangxi people especially like to eat are all kinds of seedlings, such as fingered citron seedlings, papaya seedlings and, of course, pumpkin seedlings that Caocao loves. The tender stem nodes, tender leaves and tender petioles of pumpkin seedlings, as well as tender flower stems and flower buds are all edible. In addition, pumpkin seedlings do not need to be sprayed with pesticides to kill insects, which is a pollution-free food and has been popular in the market in recent years. Pumpkin seedlings not only have delicious taste, good taste and unique flavor, but also are rich in nutrients, including chlorophyll and various amino acids, minerals and vitamins necessary for human body. Often eaten, it has certain curative effect on diabetes, arteriosclerosis, digestive tract ulcer and other diseases.
Five, pumpkin root effect.
The efficacy and function of pumpkin root
1, detumescence and pain relief
Pumpkin root, after taking medicine, has obvious therapeutic effect on human trauma. It can reduce swelling and relieve pain, and also can promote blood circulation to remove blood stasis. When people suffer from traumatic injury or joint swelling and pain, they can directly treat it with Sad Root, which can be boiled with clear water to fumigate and wash the injured area, or directly ground and evenly applied externally, which can quickly relieve the symptoms of swelling and pain.
2. Clearing heat and removing dampness
Clearing away heat and removing dampness is also an important role of pumpkin root. It can treat various human fevers, especially when people have sore throat and sore tongue. Taking it directly can alleviate the symptoms. In addition, it can get rid of the rheumatic gas in the human body and prevent rheumatoid arthritis. Those who suffer from rheumatic bone pain eat more pumpkin root, which is also good for their recovery.
The role of pumpkin root in boiling water
1, clearing away heat and toxic materials
Clearing away heat and toxic materials is one of the important functions of pumpkin root in boiling water. People usually drink it after boiling water, which can accelerate the metabolism of various toxins in the body and prevent the accumulation of heat toxins in the body. People insist on drinking it with pumpkin root in boiling water, which can prevent getting angry and heavy metal poisoning. It is of great benefit to maintaining human health.
2. Prevent malnutrition
Pumpkin root boiled water plays an important role in softening and resolving hard mass. People can prevent malnutrition when drinking it at ordinary times, but those children who have malnutrition in their lives can also drink some water boiled with pumpkin root, which can make the lumps caused by malnutrition become smaller or disappear quickly, and make their bodies recover as soon as possible.
Sixth, the effect of pumpkin flowers
Nutritional value and efficacy of pumpkin flowers
1, the nutritional value of pumpkin flowers
Pumpkin flowers is the fresh and tender bud of pumpkin. It contains a lot of protein and vitamins, some trace elements such as iron, calcium, zinc and phosphorus, and some carotene in pumpkin flowers. These substances are necessary for normal metabolism of human body. People can not only promote metabolism, but also improve their physical fitness.
2, pumpkin flowers can diminish inflammation.
Anti-inflammation is one of the important effects of pumpkin flowers, which can eliminate various inflammations in human respiratory tract and digestive tract. Eating it at ordinary times has a good auxiliary treatment effect on dysentery, tracheitis, cough and pneumonia. In addition, people can eat more pumpkin flowers after getting conjunctivitis and mastitis at ordinary times, which is also of great benefit to the recovery of the disease.
3. pumpkin flowers can protect the heart
Pumpkin flowers also contains a kind of natural rutin, which is the natural protector of human blood vessels and heart. After the human body absorbs this substance, it can improve the blood coagulation level and effectively prevent the occurrence of internal bleeding. At the same time, it can also protect blood vessels, increase the elasticity of blood vessels, accelerate blood circulation and prevent myocardial ischemia, which has a good preventive effect on human stroke and heart disease.
Pumpkin flowers contains a large amount of carotene, which has the auxiliary effect of preventing cancer. The incidence of lung cancer, gastric cancer and malignant lymphomas is closely related to the amount of carotene in the blood.
Edible efficacy
1, clearing away damp-heat, and relieving swelling and toxicity.
2. Pollen can eliminate fatigue and enhance athletes' fighting spirit.
3, it has a certain auxiliary effect on anemia, chronic constipation, large intestine diseases, hypertension, headache, stroke and other diseases of children, and can also assist in adjusting the nervous state and improving insomnia.
4. Rutin contained in pumpkin flowers has auxiliary functions of promoting blood vessel and heart function, promoting blood coagulation and preventing bleeding.
Seven, pumpkin seed oil effect
Nutrition composition editing
Fatty acid composition:
Pumpkin seed oil mainly contains 10 fatty acids, and unsaturated fatty acids account for 90%. Among them, oleic acid content is as high as 63.0%, others are linoleic acid content 20.2%, linolenic acid content 6.8%, palmitic acid content 4.09%, stearic acid content 1.78%, eicosanoic acid content 1. 16%, and the other four fatty acids are very low, accounting for about/kloc-in total. Studies have shown that unsaturated fatty acids have the functions of lowering blood lipid, antithrombotic and blood pressure, and their medicinal value has attracted more and more attention and application. In particular, linoleic acid and linolenic acid are essential fatty acids for human body, which are necessary for synthesizing phospholipids, forming cell structure and maintaining the normal function of all tissues. In addition, linoleic acid also has the functions of preventing hypercholesterolemia, improving hypertension and preventing myocardial infarction. Linoleic acid has the effects of degrading thrombus, inhibiting the occurrence of canceration and eliminating the symptoms of excessive intake of linoleic acid. Therefore, pumpkin seed oil is a good nutritional and health oil.
The research on pumpkin seed kernel and pumpkin seed oil in Xinjiang shows that pumpkin seed kernel contains 46. 7% crude fat and 37.2% crude protein. Pumpkin seed oil is good in quality, yellow and odorless, and pure in oil fragrance; The iodine value (I) of pumpkin seed oil is as high as 1 18 g/ 100 g, the content of unsaponifiable matter is 9.02g/kg, and unsaturated fatty acids account for 90%, among which oleic acid, linoleic acid and linolenic acid are relatively high, so it is a high-quality raw material suitable for preparing nutritional and health-care oil. Pumpkin kernel is also rich in mineral elements such as K, Mg, P, Ca, Na, Zn, Fe, Mn and Cu, which are beneficial to human body. Xinjiang pumpkin seed is a high-quality plant protein resource and an important oil crop, and its development and utilization prospects are extremely broad. [2] Pumpkin seed oil also contains an active biocatalyst component called male hormone, which can eliminate the initial swelling of prostate and has good therapeutic and preventive effects on urinary system and prostatic hyperplasia.
Extraction method editing
Cold pressing method
The cold pressing method is to press under the condition that the temperature does not exceed 60℃, and the cold pressed oil body appears golden yellow. The pumpkin seed oil processed by this method can well retain the natural ingredients, which is a widely respected processing method at present, and more retains the original flavor and nutritional value of the plant itself. At the same time, the six-removal process is adopted to remove wax, degrease, degum, deacidify, deodorize, decolorize and filter harmful substances in the oil. [3]
Hot pressing method
The hot pressing method is that pumpkin seeds are shelled, heated and stir-fried, and then mechanically pressed. Compared with cold pressing, in order to improve the oil yield and reduce the cost, high-temperature oil pressing destroys a lot of active substances in plants, and most of the hot pressed oil bodies appear rose red. [3] Supercritical fluid extraction or subcritical low-temperature extraction [4], although the natural components in oil can be well preserved, the processing cost is high, which is not economical for pumpkin seed oil, which is not a high-priced product.
Aqueous enzymatic extraction
Pumpkin seed oil was extracted by aqueous enzymatic method. Among the four factors (enzymolysis temperature, enzyme dosage, enzymolysis time and pH) affecting the oil extraction rate, enzymolysis temperature was the main factor, followed by pH, enzymolysis time and enzyme dosage. According to the results of orthogonal experiment, the optimum technological conditions for extracting pumpkin seed sleeve are as follows: enzymolysis temperature 55°C, enzymolysis pH6, enzymolysis time 3h and enzyme addition 0.8%. Under these conditions, the extraction rate of pumpkin seed oil can reach 40.6%. The oleic acid value of pumpkin seed obtained by this method is 1.84 mg/g, which meets the national hygiene standard.