For modern people who are busy all day, constipation, abdominal distension, stomachache and other minor problems can be said to be commonplace. Going to the hospital often fails to detect a definite disease.

At this time, it is advisable to improve gastrointestinal health through diet conditioning, such as eating some pumpkins. Huang Chengcheng and soft pumpkin are not only pleasing to the eye, but also good for nourishing the stomach. For female compatriots, it also has the effect of detoxification and beauty. Zhang Zhidong, a famous minister in Qing Dynasty, once suggested that Empress Dowager Cixi eat more pumpkins. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that pumpkin is "warm in nature, sweet in taste and enters the spleen and stomach". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that pumpkin has the effects of invigorating the middle energizer, relieving inflammation and pain, detoxifying and killing insects, and has a good therapeutic effect on spleen and stomach weakness.

Pumpkin is rich in carbohydrates and pectin, which can protect gastrointestinal mucosa from rough food stimulation; Rich in vitamins, calcium, phosphorus and other ingredients, it is a master of invigorating the stomach and promoting digestion. The rich pectin in pumpkin can also promote the healing of ulcers and "adsorb" bacteria and toxic substances, including heavy metals such as lead, thus playing a role in detoxification. Mannitol in pumpkin has laxative effect, which can reduce the harm of toxins in feces to human body; Dietary fiber is very fine and soft, which can promote intestinal peristalsis and relieve constipation without harming gastric mucosa.

Autumn and winter are the golden seasons for eating pumpkins. Simple cooking, suitable for steaming, porridge and soup. For example, millet and pumpkin porridge, take 100g millet and soak it in water for 20 minutes, peel and cut 300g pumpkin, add pumpkin into the millet after cooking for 30 minutes, and continue cooking after stirring evenly 15min. It should be noted that pumpkins are warm, and eating more will contribute to damp heat. Therefore, people with symptoms of stomach heat and bad breath, or skin sores, toxic wind itching, jaundice, beriberi, diarrhea, qi stagnation and dampness resistance should not eat more.