Question: I heard that pumpkin is a slow poison for a hundred days. After eating it, it doesn't feel very delicious, and it will also bruise and damage your eyesight. Help me. No, it is really poisonous, that is, the juice it gives out is poisonous. No, I want to solve its toxicity. If I eat too much, it will definitely affect people's endocrine. Otherwise, I won't feel bad if I eat it. But now is the season when pumpkins are popular, and I have no other way to eat them, that is, my skin is bad and my eyes are bad. Among the three thermogenic nutrients, pumpkin is mainly carbohydrate, with low fat content, which is a very good low-fat food. Pumpkin contains some rich inorganic salts and trace elements, which plays an extremely important role in maintaining human health. Pumpkin is also rich in potassium, calcium, magnesium, sodium is somewhat low, and trace elements such as selenium, iron and zinc are somewhat rich. Pumpkin, as a food with high calcium, high zinc, high iron and low sodium, is especially suitable for middle-aged and elderly people and patients with hypertension, which is beneficial to the prevention of osteoporosis and hypertension. In addition, pumpkin also contains trigonelline, cucurbitacin, soluble fiber and mannitol, which has been recorded in ancient China. In Compendium of Materia Medica, Li Shizhen put pumpkin and Ganoderma together, saying that it has the functions of tonifying middle energizer, nourishing liver-qi, benefiting heart-qi, benefiting lung-qi, and benefiting essence-qi, and is suitable for people with chronic disease of qi deficiency, spleen and stomach weakness, shortness of breath, fatigue, eating less, abdominal distension and edema, and dysuria. Over the years, many researchers have devoted themselves to the study of pumpkin in preventing and treating diabetes. It is suggested that pectin, cyclopropyl amino acid and trace elements zinc and chromium in pumpkin may play an important role in preventing and treating diabetes. The chromium content of pumpkin ranks first among all kinds of vegetables. Chromium is one of the essential trace elements for human body, and trivalent chromium is the active center of glucose tolerance factor (GrP), which can stimulate glucose uptake and help maintain glucose tolerance. Chromium deficiency in human body is one of the causes of hypertension, diabetes and coronary heart disease. Chromium can not only inhibit the generation of malignant tumors in the body, but also promote the release of insulin in the body, so that the insulin secretion of diabetic patients is normal, which is very effective in lowering blood sugar. Cyclopropyl amino acid can promote the secretion of insulin, enhance the sensitivity of insulin receptor, activate glucoamylase, accelerate the transformation of glucose and reduce blood sugar concentration. In addition, pumpkin is rich in pectin, which can reduce postprandial blood sugar and blood insulin levels; At the same time, pectin has satiety and can improve the hunger of patients, so it can control and assist the treatment of diabetes and its complications, and is a good food for diabetic patients. In addition, Zhang Yongjun and others isolated pumpkin polysaccharide from pumpkin, and preliminarily determined the hypoglycemic mechanism of pumpkin polysaccharide through mouse animal experiments. Clinical trials have proved that diabetic patients eat 100g pumpkin powder every day. After 10 days, all patients improved in different degrees, and some even recovered. At present, pumpkin powder has been regarded as the "nemesis" of diabetes by experts. 2 Hypolipidemic Function Pumpkin polysaccharide was isolated from pumpkin. Animal experiments proved that pumpkin polysaccharide could significantly reduce TG, Tch and LDL in serum of diabetic mice. Serum TG, Tch and LDL are the promoting factors of atherosclerosis, especially the increase of LDL is the risk factor of myocardial infarction. The chemical composition of pumpkin polysaccharide contains a lot of uronic acid and some negatively charged acidic genes. Therefore, it is speculated that pumpkin polysaccharide may have a similar effect to phospholipid, which can clear cholesterol and prevent arteriosclerosis. In addition, negatively charged pumpkin polysaccharide can bind with LPL at physiological pH and be released into blood from arterial wall, which can promote the degradation of chylothorax and VLDL and prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension. 3 The effect of preventing and treating cancer Pumpkin contains alkaloids, trigonelline, cucurbitacin and other physiologically active substances, which can eliminate the decomposition of carcinogenic nitrosamines and effectively prevent and treat cancer. 4 Detoxification, liver protection and kidney function Pumpkin is rich in pectin, which has excellent adsorption performance, can combine and effectively eliminate the influence of bacterial toxicity, heavy metals and radioactive elements in the body, has the function of resisting environmental poisons, and has remarkable curative effect on patients with digestive tract ulcer. Pumpkin contains potassium salt, water and a small amount of sodium salt, which can enhance the secretion ability. When the prostate and liver are inflamed, it has a good effect on accelerating the dissolution of kidney calculi and bladder stones. In addition, pumpkin powder is also effective in treating hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, nephropathy and other diseases, because pumpkin, a yellow-green vegetable, contains ingredients that can destroy harmful substances such as pesticides and nitrite in food, which can help patients with weakened liver and kidney function and enhance their liver and kidney cell regeneration ability. In recent years, according to the research of Japan's domestic cancer prevention center, eating yellow-green vegetables such as pumpkin and cauliflower every day can reduce the incidence and mortality of lung cancer. 5 Antioxidant and eyesight protection functions Pumpkins are rich in vitamin E and beta-carotene. Vitamin E has a very strong antioxidant effect, which can effectively protect the body from some oxygen free radicals and peroxides, and may have a certain anti-aging effect. β -carotene can be converted into vitamin A(VA), which has important physiological functions in human body. VA plays an important role in protecting eyesight, preventing eye diseases, maintaining the health of human epithelial tissues and promoting the growth and development of children. At the same time, VA plays an important physiological role in maintaining normal vision, improving vision, promoting bone development and preventing cancer in vivo. As the source of VA in food, pumpkin food is more economical than animal food (such as liver and egg yolk). 6 Auxiliary treatment of prostatitis Pumpkin seeds and pumpkin seed extracts have pharmacological effects of relieving prostatitis and treating benign prostatic hypertrophy, but the curative effect is somewhat poor when used alone. If used in combination with other natural plants, the curative effect is better. Pumpkin seed oil is rich in unsaturated fatty acids such as linoleic acid and linolenic acid, which can prevent prostate cancer and enhance male sexual function. Pumpkin is rich in citrulline, which can drive away parasites such as roundworm, tapeworm, ginger worm and schistosomiasis, and has certain curative effect on schistosomiasis and ascites of advanced schistosomiasis. Pumpkin seeds are also rich in soybean oleic acid, which can nourish brain cells, remove deposits on the inner wall of blood vessels, enhance brain function and improve brain blood circulation. Inorganic salts and trace elements in pumpkin play an extremely important role in maintaining health, and have the functions of preventing obesity, treating chronic osteomyelitis, treating asthma, protecting fetus and giving birth to milk. 2009-06-20 00:46 Pumpkin itself is not poisonous, so there is no need to detoxify! ! ! 2009-06-20 00:49 "Pumpkin is good, but it is not suitable for people with beriberi, jaundice, diarrhea and qi stagnation." Besides, there are no side effects! ! ! Answer 1: No, pumpkin is very nutritious. . . Answer 2: Pumpkins are poisonous? This is the first time I have heard of it. 2009-06-20 00:58 and then stew pumpkin and mung bean together, it will clear away heat and detoxify, and it is very delicious. I like this soup best in the first season. You try it first.