As a medicinal pumpkin seed, it has long been recorded in Chinese medical books. Pumpkin seeds are rich in cucurbitacin, linseed oleic acid and stearic acid, all of which have medicinal components. Pumpkin seeds have the functions of expelling worms, relieving cough and swelling, and treating schistosomiasis and whooping cough. Pumpkin seeds can also treat male premature ejaculation, frequent urination, prostatic hyperplasia and other diseases.

Pumpkin seeds have a good effect on treating aseptic prostatitis. Eat about 50 grams of pumpkin seeds every day, both raw and cooked. After three months of continuous eating, symptoms such as abdominal pain, frequent urination and dysuria can be alleviated or disappeared. The secret of pumpkin seeds in treating prostatitis is that the function of prostate gland secreting hormones depends on fatty acids, and pumpkin seeds are rich in fatty acids, which can keep the prostate gland functioning well. A scientific research paper published by American researchers pointed out that eating a handful of pumpkin seeds every day can treat benign prostatic hyperplasia, restore the symptoms in the second stage to the initial stage, and obviously improve the condition in the third stage, because the active ingredients in pumpkin seeds can eliminate the swelling in the initial stage of prostate and also prevent prostate cancer.

Warm tips

It was found that compared with people with low fiber intake, people with high fiber intake have a lower risk of prostate cancer 18%. Therefore, it is suggested that men eat more vegetables, which can not only prevent diseases such as prostate cancer, but also be beneficial to health.