Medicinal value

Source "? Herbal Medicine in Southern Yunnan

Pinyin nán guā

Alias maigua (southern Yunnan materia medica), pumpkin (? Qunfangpu), Cucurbita moschata (Seeking the Original of Materia Medica), Cucurbita moschata (A Collection of Plants), Beigua, Golden Wax Melon, White Wax Melon (Flora of Guangzhou), Fugua (Collection of Common Folk Herbs), Golden Melon (Lu Chuan Ben Cao), Rice Melon and Old Burmese Melon; Wogua, A Picture Book of Medicinal Plants in China), Fanpu (Jiangxi Herbal Manual).

The source is the fruit of Cucurbitaceae pumpkin. Harvest fruits in summer and autumn when they are ripe.

Habitat distribution is cultivated at the edge of houses, gardens and river beaches. It is found all over the country.

Chemical components: the pulp contains citrulline 20.9 mg%, arginine, asparagine, fenugreek, adenine, carotene, vitamin B, ascorbic acid, fat 2%, glucose, sucrose, pentosan and mannitol.

Sweet and warm in nature.

① Outline: Sweet, warm and nontoxic.

② Compendium of Medical Forest: sweet and sour, warm and slightly toxic.

③ Diet Spectrum of Living with Interest: Early harvesters are sweet and warm; Late harvesters are sweet and cool.

Meridian tropism enters spleen and stomach meridians.

① Herbal Medicine in Southern Yunnan: Entering the Spleen and Stomach.

2 "Materia Medica Seeking Truth": into the spleen, stomach and intestine.

3 "Materia Medica Renews": Entering the Heart Sutra.

Indications: invigorating the middle energizer, relieving inflammation and pain, detoxicating and killing insects.

① "Herbal Medicine in Southern Yunnan": Running across meridians to facilitate urination.

2 "Compendium": Tonifying the middle and benefiting qi.

③ Compendium of Medical Forest: Benefiting the heart and astringing the lung.

④ Picture Book of Medicinal Plants in China: After cooking, paper is applied to the affected areas of dry pleurisy and intercostal neuralgia, which has anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects.

Administration and dosage for oral administration: steaming or mashing juice. External use: tamping.

Pay attention to all diseases suffering from qi stagnation and dampness resistance, and avoid taking them.

① Compendium: Eat more beriberi and jaundice.

② Diet Spectrum of Living with Interest: All cases of malaria, swollen jaundice, stuffy beriberi and puerperal acne should be avoided.

Attached:

① detoxification of opium poison: raw pumpkins are frequently poured with mashed juice. ("Living with Interest Diet Spectrum")

② Treatment of gunpowder and soup fire injury: raw pumpkin is pounded. ("Living with Interest Diet Spectrum")

③ Treatment of lung abscess: one catty of pumpkin and half a catty of beef. Cook it (without salt or oil), and after taking it several times, take five to six doses of Liuwei Dihuang Decoction. Avoid taking fatty clothes. (Annals of Lingnan Herbs)

Clinical application of pumpkin raw food can drive away mites: adults take 1 kg each time, children take half a catty, and then take laxatives two hours later. Take it for 2 days. Trial treatment 10 cases, 6 cases expelled ascaris, up to more than 100, at least 2.

Remarks The root of this plant (? Pumpkin root), stem (pumpkin vine), stem tendrils (? Gourd vine), leaves (pumpkin leaves), flowers (? Pumpkin flowers), melon pedicel (pumpkin pedicel), fruit pulp (south melon pulp), seed (? Pumpkin seeds), seedlings whose seeds germinate in the fruit (Cirsium japonicum) are also used for medicine, with detailed articles for each.

Selected documents

《? Compendium of Materia Medica: "Sweet, non-toxic, tonify the middle energizer."

"Materia Medica Rejuvenates": "Pacify the liver and stomach, dredge meridians, benefit blood and nourish yin and water, treat liver wind, nourish blood and nourish blood, regulate qi and remove all winds."

Herbal Medicine in Southern Yunnan: "Running across meridians is beneficial to urinating."

Modern research

In 2004, Health Times first reported that pumpkin could not reduce blood sugar. The latest research by researchers at the Clinical Medical Center of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases affiliated to Ruijin Hospital of Shanghai Jiaotong University found that giving 200 grams of pumpkin to diabetic patients without taking medicine and on an empty stomach did not reduce blood sugar, but increased blood sugar. So far, no anti-diabetic components have been isolated from pumpkin.