Pumpkin flowers is not only colorful, but also nutritious. Stir-fried food, cold salad and soup can be used, with good color and taste. The most nutritious and nourishing pollen in pumpkin flowers is rich in protein, amino acids, fat, sugar, B vitamins and enzymes, which is an ideal natural health care product for children and the elderly. Pumpkin can be used as both food and food, and can be used for porridge, steamed food, stir-frying and cooking. Pumpkin seeds contain protein and fat. They are fried and cooked, and have excellent taste. They are popular snacks.

Pumpkin leaves, pedicels, vines, seeds and pulp can all be used medicinally. Pumpkin flowers is cool, and has the effects of clearing away damp-heat, reducing swelling, treating night blindness and stopping cough. Pumpkin leaves contain chlorophyll, which can cure dysentery, malnutrition and trauma. Pumpkin pedicel can treat carbuncle, furuncle, scald, habitual abortion, hiccup, scrotal eczema and other diseases. Pumpkin vine has the effects of clearing away lung-heat, regulating stomach and dredging collaterals, and can be used to treat pulmonary tuberculosis, low fever, asthma, stomachache, irregular menstruation and scald. Pumpkin seed is a good medicine for expelling worms, which can drive away roundworms, tapeworms and schistosomiasis.

Especially worth mentioning is the medicinal value of pumpkin. Chinese medicine believes that pumpkin is warm and has the effects of moistening lung, benefiting qi and tonifying middle energizer. Modern medicine has found that pumpkin has a good therapeutic effect. Pectin in pumpkin can protect gastrointestinal mucosa from rough food stimulation and promote ulcer healing. Fresh pumpkin powder can promote bile secretion and strengthen gastrointestinal peristalsis. Eating 300 grams of pumpkin every day can prevent constipation. At the same time, pumpkin juice can accelerate the dissolution of kidney calculi and bladder stones. There are also reports that pumpkin is rich in pectin and cholesterol, which can reduce the cholesterol content in blood and prevent arteriosclerosis. Pumpkin is rich in tender cellulose and is an effective diet food. In recent years, it has been found that pumpkin can also treat diabetes. If you insist on cooking with 500 grams of tender pumpkin every day for 2 months, it will be effective. Pumpkin powder can promote insulin secretion. Some doctors have confirmed that pumpkin powder also has a certain effect on nephritis, hepatitis and cirrhosis. Researchers at home and abroad also found that pumpkin has a certain anti-cancer effect. There is a substance in pumpkin that can decompose carcinogen nitrosamine-enzyme, which can reduce the occurrence of digestive tract cancer.