Cancer prevention: Pumpkin can eliminate the mutation of ammonium nitrite and prevent cancer cells from appearing.

Duchong: Pumpkin seeds have a good effect on killing Schistosoma japonicum larvae, and have a significant effect on patients with pinworm disease and pinworm disease (the method is to swallow pumpkin seeds after chewing on an empty stomach).

Treatment of hypertension: Eating more pumpkins (especially raw or steamed until half cooked) can lower blood pressure.

Treatment of asthma: steamed pumpkin mixed with honey, once in the morning and evening, for a long time.

Treatment of chronic cough: fry the head of pumpkin vine, put it in a bottle, let its juice flow in, and take the juice with boiling water after 24 hours.

Treatment of edema, ascites, and dysuria: grind the pumpkin pedicle into powder, and take it with warm water three times a day, 2 grams each time.

Treatment of inertia abortion: 3 pumpkin pedicels, coix seed120g, decocted in water for several days.

Treatment of burns and scalds: the pumpkin is mashed to get juice and coated on the wound. You can also apply pumpkin vine juice to the wound three times a day.

Treatment of bronchial asthma and chronic bronchitis in the elderly: 500 grams of fresh pumpkin, 20 red dates, appropriate amount of yellow sugar, and boiled soup twice a day.

Treat dysentery: decoct soup with pumpkin leaves.

Pain relief: cooked melon meat can be applied to the affected area to relieve inflammation and pain.

Pumpkin, a vine climbing plant of Cucurbitaceae, is a vegetable when tender, and the old melon can be used as a staple food instead of grain, also known as "rice melon". Originated in southern Asia, there are many varieties, the most representative of which are Chinese pumpkin, Indian pumpkin and American pumpkin. Pumpkin has a long cultivation history in China. According to the records of Shengjing Tongzhi, it was named pumpkin because it came from the south. In the Ming Dynasty's Dietary Instructions, there are also records that pumpkins are sweet in taste, warm in nature and enter the spleen, so there is a proverb that "half a melon in hot weather does not need to be caught with Chinese medicine". Modern medical and nutritional research has confirmed that pumpkin is not only sweet and delicious, rich in nutrition, but also has high medicinal value. In Xizhang Village, Hokkaido, Japan, residents there like to eat pumpkins as their meals, at least once a day, and there is no diabetic in the villagers. The real name of the famous Japanese urology department, Daifushan, once asked a certain number of diabetic patients to eat pumpkin 100-500 grams every day. After a month's test, all the testers' blood sugar decreased to varying degrees, and their condition improved obviously. Thus in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan Province and other countries and regions set off a pumpkin consumption boom. A large number of clinical scientific investigations and studies have confirmed that pumpkin has a significant auxiliary dietotherapy effect on diabetes, and it is a new way of dietotherapy for diabetic patients. Yu Ruomu, a famous nutritionist, mentioned in his speech "A major breakthrough in the prevention and treatment of diabetes-the news conference of Jiangtangbao Line" that pumpkin itself contains hypoglycemic factors, which is the first choice for diabetic patients as an auxiliary dietotherapy. Therefore, pumpkin is praised as "super health food" by medical circles at home and abroad, and its medicinal value lies in:

1. Prevention and treatment of diabetes: Pumpkin is rich in dietary fiber and pectin. When ingested with food, it can improve the viscosity of stomach contents, adjust the absorption of food in the stomach, slow down the absorption of carbohydrates, increase the release of insulin, reduce or delay the absorption of glucose and cholesterol in the intestine, and inhibit the secretion of sugar hormones by the gastrointestinal system to lower blood sugar. Chromium is a necessary factor to help insulin secretion, which can accelerate the oxidation of blood sugar to carbon dioxide and improve the durability of blood sugar; It is also one of the mechanisms by which pumpkin can prevent and treat diabetes. The hypoglycemic factor cty contained in pumpkin can promote the synthesis of human pancreatic protein GLUT-2, and the protein can promote the secretion of insulin and transport glucose in blood to β cells, thus reducing the blood sugar content and effectively preventing and treating diabetes.

2. Prevention of cardiovascular diseases: Pumpkin is a kind of food with high potassium and low sodium. The average potassium content in100g fresh melon is about 300 mg, and the high one can reach 650 mg, but the sodium content is very low, accounting for about 0.4 mg. Potassium plays a role in regulating osmosis and balance in human body. High potassium and low sodium have obvious effects on preventing cardiovascular diseases and treating edema, and are suitable for patients with hypertension and nephropathy.

Third, anti-cancer and anti-cancer: there are four main aspects: 1, pumpkin contains mannitol, which has a good laxative effect, can reduce the harm of toxins in feces to human body, and has a certain effect on preventing and treating colon cancer. 2. The derivatives of vitamin A contained in pumpkin can reduce the sensitivity of the body to carcinogens, stabilize epithelial cells and prevent them from canceration, which is the most effective for preventing lung cancer, bladder cancer and laryngeal cancer. 3. Rich vitamin C can prevent nitrates from turning into carcinogenic nitrosamines in the digestive tract, and prevent esophageal cancer and gastric cancer. 4. Pumpkin also contains a urease that can decompose nitrosamines, which is of great significance for preventing cancer.

Fourth, prevention and treatment of ulcers: the therapeutic effect of pumpkin on ulcer disease stems from containing a lot of pectin. This is because pectin can protect gastrointestinal tract from being stimulated by rough food, promote ulcer healing and inhibit excessive gastric acid secretion, so patients with ulcer disease should eat more pumpkin food. At present, Russian nutritionists have listed pumpkin as an essential part of the diet of patients with gastric and duodenal ulcers.

5. Lose weight: Eating pumpkin often can help obese people lose weight. According to the research report of Japanese Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and medical experts, pumpkin can lose weight because it is rich in vitamin A, soft fiber and the low sugar and calorie of pumpkin. In Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya and other places, there are "restaurants" specializing in pumpkin cooking, with more than 30 kinds of food for pumpkin beauty, and the "pumpkin craze" has swept through Fusang.

Sixth, zinc supplementation: eating pumpkin often is beneficial to zinc supplementation. Zinc deficiency often leads to stunted growth in children, decreased sexual desire in adults and increased blood sugar. It can also cause anorexia, partial eclipse and skin diseases. 100 grams of pumpkin contains 0.22 mg of zinc, and eating pumpkin regularly can improve the above symptoms.

Medical function of pumpkin

Pumpkin has anticancer, antitoxin, antihypertensive, arteriosclerosis, diabetes, food poisoning, lung abscess, cough and asthma, postpartum hypogalactia, night blindness and stomachache.

Lung abscess: Take 500 grams of pumpkin and 250 grams of beef, cook them without any seasoning, and eat them twice a day for 7-10 day. At the same time, take Liuwei Dihuang Decoction, daily 1 dose, for 7-10 days.

In case of pesticide poisoning, you can take raw shredded pumpkin and raw shredded radish, mash them, wring juice, and take them. You can immediately induce vomiting as a temporary rescue measure, and then you should be sent to the hospital for emergency treatment as soon as possible.

Breast-feeding women in postpartum hypogalactia: Take raw pumpkin seeds12g, mash them, 6g each time, and take rice wine orally in the morning and evening on an empty stomach.

People with tapeworms: take 50-1 00g of fresh pumpkin (children should have less), grind it, add 50g of sugar and appropriate amount of water, stew until cooked, and take it on an empty stomach1time in the morning.

Ascariasis: Take 500 grams of raw pumpkin (200-250 grams for children) every day and eat it raw. After 2 hours, take a laxative (such as rhubarb soda tablets) for 2 days.

Cough and expectoration: Take 1 000—1500g old pumpkin1piece, take out the pumpkin pulp, fill it with 6g of Schisandra chinensis and 60g of rock sugar, cover the small hole opened by digging the pulp, steam the whole pumpkin on a steamer, and support Schisandra chinensis after steaming.

Pertussis sufferer: Take pumpkin seeds100g, put them on the baking table, grind them into fine powder, take 5g each time, and take them with brown sugar water three times a day.

For pregnant women with fetal movement and red leakage, 200 grams of pumpkin pedicel can be burned and ground into fine powder, each time 10 gram, and glutinous rice soup can be taken 2-3 times a day.

Night blindness: Take pumpkin flowers, 200g pork liver, salt and monosodium glutamate, and cook them together, eat liver and drink soup.

Hiccup: Take 4-6 pumpkins and decoct them in water. Stomach ache: take fresh pumpkin vine juice 1 small cup and 50 ml warm yellow wine to take.