Pumpkin seed is the seed of Cucurbitaceae annual vine pumpkin, which is mainly produced in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi and Sichuan. When the pumpkin is ripe, cut the pumpkin, take out its seeds and dry them in the sun. Pumpkin seeds contain many chemical components beneficial to human body, such as cucurbitacin, fatty oil, protein, vitamin B 1, C and so on. Pumpkin seeds are mainly used to repel insects and reduce swelling. Can be used for treating tapeworm, ascaris lumbricoides, postpartum edema of hands and feet, whooping cough, and hemorrhoid.

Efficacy and function of pumpkin seeds

Medicinal pumpkin seeds not only have the functions of invigorating spleen and benefiting qi, promoting lactation, moistening lung and dryness, and expelling worms, but also can solve the problems of urinary incontinence, sensitive bladder disease and prostatic hypertrophy.

Pumpkin seeds can prevent and improve male prostatitis. Doctors believe that eating about 50 grams of pumpkin seeds every day, raw and cooked, can effectively prevent and treat prostate diseases.

Side effects of pumpkin seeds

Although pumpkin seeds are rich in nutrients: iron, zinc, magnesium, manganese and healthy fat. But there are also some side effects.

For example, pumpkin seeds are rich in fat, and eating too much is easy to make people fat; Moreover, pumpkin seeds are slightly toxic and will affect liver function. Because if you eat too many pumpkin seeds, you will feel sick. That's because pumpkin seeds are too greasy for your liver.

Note: Pumpkin seeds are not suitable for patients with chronic hepatitis and fatty liver.