2 Summary Pumpkin belongs to an annual creeping herb of Cucurbitaceae. Its wild ancestors originated in Mexico and Guatemala, and it was introduced to China very early, and was widely planted and eaten, so it was called "Chinese pumpkin".
The pulp and seeds of pumpkin can be eaten, and so can the flowers. In China, pumpkin is both a vegetable and a substitute for food, and it is very popular in rural areas. In recent years, people have found that pumpkins can not only satisfy hunger, but also have certain dietotherapy value, so local pumpkins can be put on the table.
Another name of pumpkin is pumpkin, which is also called maigua, pumpkin, pumpkin, golden melon, fugua, migua, wogua and Chinese pumpkin.
4 nutrients of pumpkin Pumpkin is rich in starch, sugar, carotene and so on. Every 500g contains 2.5g of protein, 0.5g of fat, 34.5g of carbohydrate, 0.95mg of calcium/kloc-,0.0mg of phosphorus/kloc-,0.0mg of iron/kloc-,5.3mg of carotene, 0.25mg of thiamine, 0.3mg of riboflavin and 0.3mg of nicotinic acid/kloc-.
Analysis of nutritional value of pumpkin 1. Detoxification:
Contains vitamins and pectin, has good adsorption, can combine and eliminate bacterial toxins and other harmful substances in the body, such as lead, mercury and radioactive elements in heavy metals, and can play a detoxification role;
2. Protect gastric mucosa and help digestion;
Pectin contained in pumpkin can also protect gastric mucosa from coarse grains and promote ulcer healing, which is suitable for patients with gastric diseases. The ingredients contained in pumpkin can promote bile secretion, strengthen gastrointestinal peristalsis and help food digestion;
3. Prevention and treatment of diabetes and lowering blood sugar:
Pumpkin is rich in cobalt, which can activate human metabolism, promote hematopoietic function and participate in the synthesis of vitamin B 12 in human body. It is an essential trace element for human islet cells and has special effects on preventing and treating diabetes and lowering blood sugar.
4. Eliminate carcinogens:
Pumpkin can eliminate the mutation of carcinogen nitrosamine, has anti-cancer effect, and can help the recovery of liver and kidney function and enhance the regeneration ability of liver and kidney cells.
5. Promoting growth and development:
Pumpkin is rich in zinc, which is involved in the synthesis of nucleic acid and protein in human body. It is an inherent component of adrenocortical hormone and an important substance for human growth and development.
6 Buy pumpkin 1. Pumpkin is a very easy-to-preserve yellow-green vegetable. The whole pumpkin can be stored in the refrigerator for 2 ~ 3 months, so people used to store pumpkin as an important vitamin source in the winter when vegetables were scarce.
2. Pumpkin is easy to deteriorate from the heart after being cut, so it is best to hollow it out with a spoon and wrap it with plastic wrap, so it can be stored in the refrigerator for 5 ~ 6 days.
3. The skin of pumpkin is rich in carotene and vitamins, so it is best to eat it together. If the skin is hard, even the knife is cut off the hard part before eating. When cooking, the heart of pumpkin contains five times as much carotene as the pulp, so try to make full use of it.
7 people who are suitable for eating pumpkins can eat pumpkins in the general population.
1. Pumpkin is especially suitable for obese people, diabetics and middle-aged and elderly people.
2. Pumpkins are warm, those with excessive stomach heat, those with full qi stagnation, and those with damp-heat qi stagnation should eat less; People suffering from beriberi, jaundice, qi stagnation and dampness are not suitable for eating.
8 the therapeutic effect of pumpkin pumpkin is sweet, warm, enters the spleen and stomach, and has the functions of tonifying the middle warmer, diminishing inflammation and relieving pain. Modern medical research has found that pumpkin can promote insulin secretion, have preventive and adjuvant therapeutic effects on diabetes and hypertension, and have cosmetic effects. Pumpkin seeds have anthelmintic effect and are effective in treating scab. Although pumpkin is delicious, patients with stomach heat should eat less. Eating too much pumpkin is easy to cause bloating. [ 1]
Pumpkin is sweet, warm and enters the spleen and stomach;
Pumpkin has the effects of tonifying middle energizer, diminishing inflammation and relieving pain, detoxifying and killing insects, lowering blood sugar and quenching thirst;
Pumpkin is mainly used to treat chronic diseases such as qi deficiency, spleen and stomach weakness, shortness of breath, burnout, loose stool, diabetes, ascaris and so on.
Nine suggestions for pumpkin 1. Pumpkins can be steamed, boiled and soup; External tamping agent.
2. Pumpkin cooked food supplement and welfare water; Used for expelling octopus and detoxifying.
3. Diabetic patients can make pumpkin into pumpkin powder for long-term consumption.
4. Appropriate amount of wax gourd, washed and sliced, salted for 6 hours, and served with vinegar cold, can reduce facial pigmentation and prevent acne.
The recommended consumption of 10 pumpkin is 100 ~ 500g each time.
1 1 dictionary *: pumpkin 1 1. 1 originated from southern Yunnan materia medica.
1 1.2 Pinyin name Nán Guā
1 1.3 pumpkin aliases include maigua (a herb from southern Yunnan), fangua (a group house shop), pumpkin (a herb source), pumpkin (a flora of plants), beigua, golden wax gourd, white wax gourd (a flora of Guangzhou) and fugua (commonly used by the people).
1 1.4 comes from the fruit of Cucurbitaceae pumpkin. Harvest in summer and autumn when the fruit is ripe.
1 1.5 prototype annual vine. Stem length 10 meter, all bristles. The stem is pentagonal, hollow and slightly enlarged. Simple leaves alternate; Usually broadly ovoid, nearly round or heart-shaped, or sometimes shallowly divided into pentagons, about 15 ~ 30 cm long, with a sharp apex, a deep heart-shaped base, slightly wavy leaves and irregular small teeth. The leaves are green at the top and light green at the bottom, with slightly hard fuzz on both sides; The petiole is slightly longer than the leaf, cylindrical and hollow. There is a tendril on the axil side of the leaf, which is equal to the petiole. The upper part has five branches, and a young branch is born in the axil of the tendril. Flowers unisexual, axillary, monoecious, yellow; Female flower stalk is shorter and thicker than male flower stalk; The calyx tube of male flowers is short or short, hairy, the sepals are long and erect, often the top expands to form a leaf shape, the apex rolls back, the corolla is bell-shaped and funnel-shaped, the lobes shrink and roll back outward, the filaments are connected at the top, and the nectary disc is thick; The female calyx tube is flat on the upper part of the ovary, the corolla funnel is quadrangular, there are 3 pseudostamens, the nectary disk is thick, the ovary is lower, the style is straight, and the stigma is vertically divided. The fruit is large, oblate, oblong or oval, and its shape and size vary with varieties. The pericarp is generally dark green or green-white, and it is reddish brown when mature; The fruit stalk is hard and pentagonal, with a deep longitudinal groove on the surface and a slightly enlarged base. Seeds are numerous, flat, oval, yellowish white, with rough or not rough edges. The flowering period is from June to July. The fruiting period is August-September.
1 1.6 The habitat is distributed in houses, gardens, and the edge of river banks. It is found all over the country.
1 1.7 chemical constituents The pulp contains citrulline 20.9 mg%, arginine, aspartic acid, fenugreek, adenine, carotene, vitamin B, ascorbic acid, fat 2%, glucose, sucrose, pentosan and mannitol.
1 1.8 is sweet and warm.
① Compendium of Materia Medica: "Sweet, warm and nontoxic."
② "Compendium of Yaolin": "Sweet and sour, mild in nature and slightly toxic."
3 "Fun Life Diet Spectrum": "Early harvesters are warm; Late harvesters are sweet and refreshing. "
1 1.9 meridians enter the spleen and stomach meridians.
① southern Yunnan materia medica: "Entering the spleen and stomach."
2 "Materia Medica Seeking Truth": "Into the spleen, stomach and intestine."
(3) rejuvenation materia medica: "into the heart."
1 1. 10 has the functions of tonifying middle energizer, diminishing inflammation and relieving pain, detoxicating and killing insects.
① "Herbal Medicine in Southern Yunnan": "It is beneficial to urinate by dredging collaterals."
(2) "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Tonifying the middle and benefiting qi."
(3) A Compendium of Medical Forest: "Benefiting the heart and astringing the lung."
④ "Illustration of Chinese Medicinal Plants": "Cooked paper applied to the affected areas of pleurisy sicca and intercostal neuralgia has anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects."
11.11Pumpkin for oral administration and dosage: steam or mash the juice. External use: tamping.
1 1. 12 Note that people with qi stagnation and dampness resistance should not take it.
① Compendium of Materia Medica: "Eating more will cause beriberi and jaundice."
② Diet Spectrum of Interesting Life: "Anyone suffering from malaria, swollen jaundice, stuffy beriberi and postpartum acne should avoid it."
1 1. 13 attachment ① eliminate opium poison: often water raw pumpkins with juice. ("Fun Life Diet Spectrum")
② Treatment of gunpowder injury and soup fire injury: Mash raw pumpkin. ("Fun Life Diet Spectrum")
③ Treatment of lung abscess: one catty of pumpkin and half a catty of beef. Cooked (no salt and no oil), after taking it several times, take five to six doses of Liuwei Dihuang Decoction. Avoid wearing greasy clothes. (Annals of Lingnan Herbs)
Clinical application 1 1. 14 pumpkin can be eaten raw to reduce shrinkage: adults 1 kg, children half a catty, and then take laxatives two hours later. Take it for 2 days. 10 cases were treated, and 6 cases were expelled from ascaris, with at most 100 cases and at least 2 cases.
1 1. 15 note: the roots (pumpkin root), stems (pumpkin vines), tendrils (gourd vines), leaves (pumpkin leaves), flowers (pumpkin flowers), pedicels (pumpkin pedicels), pulp (pumpkin pulp) and seeds of this plant.
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