1. Pumpkin root is a kind of Chinese medicinal material. Pumpkin root is beneficial to dampness and heat. It is often used in daily life for mothers who have just given birth and have difficulty in lactation. Pumpkin root can be used to make soup directly and the effect is good.

2. Pumpkin root can reduce swelling and relieve pain, and can also activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis after being used as medicine. When people experience sore throat or sores on the mouth and tongue, you can take it directly to relieve the symptoms. In addition, pumpkin root can also remove rheumatic poison from the human body and prevent rheumatoid arthritis, which can also have certain effects.

Pumpkin root is an annual creeping herb with stems up to 2-5m. The nodes are often rooted and densely covered with white bristles. Single leaves are alternate; petioles are stout, 8-19cm long, covered with bristles; leaves are broadly oval or oval, with 5 corners or 5 lobes, 12-25cm long, 20-30cm wide, with a pointed apex and a deep heart-shaped base. It is green above and light green below. Both sides are covered with bristles and hairs, and there are small and dense teeth on the edges.

Morphological characteristics

1. The tendrils are slightly thick, and the coat has 3-5 hairs. Flowers unisexual, monoecious; male flowers solitary, calyx tube swollen and bell-shaped, 5-6mm long, lobes strip-shaped, 10-15mm long, pubescent, the upper part expanded into leaf-like, corolla yellow, bell-shaped, about 8cm, 5 middle lobes, lobes with recurved edges, 3 stamens, filaments glandular, 5-8mm long, locules bent; female flowers solitary, ovary 1, style short, stigma 3, enlarged, apex 2-lobed. The fruit stem is thick, grooved, 5-7cm long, and the melon base expands into a trumpet shape. The fruit has various shapes and often has vertical grooves on the outside. There are many seeds, long oval or oblong, gray-white. The flowering period is from June to July and the fruiting period is from August to September.

2. The source of the medicinal material: it is the root of pumpkin, a plant in the Cucurbitaceae family.

Latin plant, animal and mineral names: Cucurbita moschata (Duch. Ex Lam.) Duch. Ex Poir.

Harvest and storage: Excavated in summer and autumn; washed; dried Or used fresh.

The habitats are distributed throughout the country.

Nature and flavor are sweet; light; neutral in nature

Returns to liver; bladder meridian

Function: diuresis of dampness and heat; clearing breast milk. Mainly used to treat damp-heat stranguria syndrome; jaundice; dysentery; lactation obstruction.

Usage and dosage: Oral administration: decoction, 15-30g, double the amount of fresh product. External use: Appropriate amount, grate the juice and apply it or grind it into powder for application.