It is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, phospholipids, sitosterol, monosaccharides, vitamin A, vitamin E, vitamin C and B vitamins, as well as carotene, rich protein and trace elements such as zinc, magnesium, phosphorus, sodium, iron and selenium.

Efficacy

It can strengthen the brain, refresh the mind, reduce blood pressure and relieve pain, repel insects and kill insects, protect the prostate, and has a good effect of killing parasites in the human body. It can relieve static angina pectoris. And has the function of lowering blood pressure.

Appropriate to each other

Compared with coffee and tea, it will affect the absorption of iron. It should be eaten with betel nut, peanut and walnut.

Medicinal value

Pumpkin seeds are mainly used for tapeworm syndrome. It has the function of killing insects, and sweetness does not hurt righteousness. For taeniasis, this product is often used together with betel nut to enhance the curative effect. Pumpkin seeds can paralyze the middle and rear segments of the worm, making it thinner and wider; Areca catechu can completely paralyze the head and immature segments of the worm. Both of them have the same effect, but their action parts are slightly different, so they must be used together. If the prescription is proved to drive away phlegm, that is to say, this product is ground into powder, mixed with cold boiled water for 60~ 120g, decocted with Areca catechu 60~ 120 after 2 hours, and then taken with sodium sulfate 15g after a flat hour, so as to promote diarrhea and facilitate the excretion of worms, and can also be mixed with pomegranate peel and other decoctions. Pumpkin kernel grinding powder is also often used to treat ascaris and schistosomiasis, and can achieve certain curative effect.

In addition, this product can also be used for malnutrition, sallow complexion and infantile malnutrition, and can be taken with peanuts and walnuts.

nutritive value

Pumpkin seeds are rich in fatty acids and have a health care effect on male prostate; Pantothenic acid contained in pumpkin seeds has the effect of lowering blood pressure; Unsaturated fatty acids and plant proteins contained in pumpkin seeds can prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as arteriosclerosis; Linoleic acid contained in pumpkin seeds can lower blood sugar, which is beneficial to diabetic patients.

Clinical function

1, treatment of whooping cough: use pumpkin seed tile to bake, grind into fine powder, and take a little red sugar soup several times a day (Jiangxi traditional Chinese medicine)

2. Treatment of postpartum hypogalactia: Use raw pumpkin seeds 15~ 18g, remove the shell and take the kernel, wrap it with gauze, mash it into mud, add appropriate amount of boiled water to kimono, and take it/kloc-0 every time in the morning and evening on an empty stomach for 3~5 days [journal of traditional chinese medicine].

3. Treatment of chronic ulcer of lower limbs: 50~ 150g pumpkin seeds preserved for more than 2 years are mashed and applied around the ulcer, and 200~300g fresh purslane is mashed and applied to the ulcer surface, and the dressing is changed 1 time every day. Treatment 12 cases, 10 cases were cured within 1 month, and 2 cases complicated with chronic osteomyelitis were treated by surgery (China Rural Medicine).

4. Treatment of bladder irritation: Taking ground pumpkin seed powder can obviously improve symptoms such as frequent micturition and urgency caused by various reasons, improve bladder compliance and increase bladder initial sensation capacity [Journal of Clinical Urology].

chemical composition

Mainly contains cucurbitacin, fatty oil, protein and vitamin A, vitamin B 1, vitamin C, etc. Fatty oil contains linseed oleic acid, oleic acid and stearic acid. It still contains carotene.

pharmacological action

Pumpkin seed concentrate 100~300mg/Kg was given to cats by gavage, which had obvious anthelmintic effect on tapeworms and Toxocara. Cucurbitacin has paralyzing effect on the middle and rear segments of tapeworms. Pumpkin seeds can inhibit the migration of Schistosoma japonicum to the liver in animals. It can inhibit and kill Schistosoma japonicum larvae, and the effective component is cucurbitacin. Cucurbitacin can't kill adults, but it can make worms atrophy, reproductive organs degenerate and eggs in uterus decrease.

Edible method

Suitable object

Suitable for patients with ascariasis, ascariasis, taeniasis, hookworm disease and schistosomiasis, especially those with edema of hands and feet and hypogalactia after delivery and prostatic hypertrophy. People with stomach heat declare eating less.

Diet prescription

Put pumpkin seeds into a mortar, add a little cold boiled water, grind them into paste, add rock sugar and honey, mix well and take them on an empty stomach twice a day. Is suitable for children's ascariasis, and can also be used for children's taeniasis.