Cucurbita pepo – Pumpkin pie

Annual herbaceous creeping plant, reaching 6-8 m in length, families tыkvennыh (Cucurbitaceae). Pumpkin is widely cultivated. In medicine, use the seeds and pulp of the fruit.

Cucurbita pepo – Chemical composition

Pumpkin seeds contain fatty oil, consisting of linoleic, oleic, palmitic and stearic acids, sitosterol (kukurbitol), and the resinous material (oksitserotinovaya acid), B vitamins, ascorbic acid, karotinoidы, organic acid. The fruit pulp contains sugar, ascorbic acid, carotene, vitamins B1, IN 2, nicotinic acid, karotinoidы.

Cucurbita pepo – Pharmacological properties

Pumpkin seeds have anthelminthic action. The fruit pulp of pumpkin has a diuretic, choleretic and laxative properties.

Cucurbita pepo – Use in medicine

Pumpkin seeds are gymnosperms ordinary and used for deworming and prevention parazitonositelstva various tapeworms. Most Active pumpkin seeds inferior drugs male fern, but they do not have a characteristic fern side effects. In this regard, pumpkin seeds can be used in children, pregnant women and the elderly.

The pulp and juice of pumpkin improves bowel function in constipation, increased allocation of chloride from the body, increase urine output, without causing irritating effect on the kidney tissue. The fruit pulp of pumpkin is prescribed for liver disease, kidney, gout, also used in the industry to produce vitamin carotene.

Cucurbita pepo – Formulations, Dosing and Administration

Seeds of Cucurbita pepo used to expel tape and round worms. In small portions over 1 h taken on an empty stomach 300 Mr. Seed (You can grind in a mortar with a green shell and mixed with 50-100 g of honey). Through 3 h give a laxative, after half an hour put an enema. Children aged 3-4 years are designated 75 Mr. Seed, 5-7 Years - 100 g, 8-10 Years - 150 g, 10-15 Years - 200-250 g.