There is no difference. Golden gourd, is the common name of pumpkin, zhejiang, fujian, taiwan folk call pumpkin for golden gourd.

Cucurbitaceae pumpkin genus of a species, annual trailing herbs, stems often nodes rooted, petiole stout, leaf blade broadly ovate or ovoid, slightly soft texture, veins raised, tendrils slightly stout, monoecious, fruiting pedicels stout, with ribs and grooves, depending on the species, often with a number of longitudinal grooves on the outside or not, the seeds are numerous, long ovate or oblong.

Introduced to China in the Ming Dynasty, now widely planted throughout the north and south. The fruits of the plant are used as a delicacy and as a substitute for food. All parts of the plant and for medicinal purposes, the seeds contain pumpkin seed amino acids, have the effect of clearing heat and dehumidification, deworming, schistosomes have the effect of controlling and killing, the vine has the effect of clearing heat, melon seeds have the effect of fetal safety, the root of the treatment of toothache.

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Pumpkin has four major health effects

a, the pumpkin: pumpkin is also a good food for the stomach and intestines, pumpkin is rich in vitamin A proto, which can be involved in the normal metabolism of the epithelial tissues of the stomach, protect the gastric mucosa, promote the healing of ulcers; pectin can make the digestive tract from the Rough food stimulation, prevention of gastritis, gastric ulcers; pumpkin mannitol has laxative effect, can reduce the fecal toxins in the human body, to prevent colon cancer.

Second, pumpkin and kidney protection: eat pumpkin benefits really a lot of pumpkin from the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine that: there is a tonic gas, anti-inflammatory, pain relief, detoxification and kill worms, sugar and thirst effects, modern medical research has proved that the pectin in the pumpkin to help the liver and kidneys weakening of people to enhance regenerative capacity of liver and kidney cells.

Three, pumpkin and diabetes: pumpkin is rich in vitamin a, vitamin c and vitamin e, can promote insulin secretion; pectin in pumpkin can delay food emptying, delay intestinal absorption of sugar, thus controlling the rise in blood sugar. In addition, pumpkin contains the mineral cobalt, is the insulin cells synthesize insulin necessary substances. So diabetic patients should eat some food made with pumpkin appropriately.

Four, eating pumpkin with the talk: pumpkin and green beans with food, effectively lower blood sugar. Pumpkin is rich in pectin, can regulate the absorption of food in the stomach, reduce or delay the intestinal absorption of glucose, cholesterol, effectively reduce blood sugar. However, pumpkin and lamb with food, easy to cause bloating, constipation; pumpkin may not be in the gas, mutton hot, make up for the deficiency. The two with food will be people intestinal and gastrointestinal qi blockage, triggering bloating, constipation and other diseases.

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