Eating pumpkin seeds has these seven benefits! Take a handful every day, and health will come naturally.

Text/Zhang Xing Deputy Director Pharmacist of zhongwei People’s Hospital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region

Pumpkin seeds, also known as pumpkin kernel, white melon seeds and golden melon rice, are the seeds of cucurbitaceae pumpkin and are widely cultivated all over the country.

Pumpkin seeds are slightly fragrant and slightly sweet. It is better to have large seeds, full kernels, yellow-white shells and fresh ones, and grind them into powder for raw use.

Natural "insect repellent"

Pumpkin seeds can repel insects and paralyze the middle and rear segments of beef tapeworm or pork tapeworm. Pumpkin seeds can significantly reduce the growth rate of Schistosoma japonicum larvae, and are mainly used to treat diseases caused by tapeworms, roundworms, hookworms, pinworms, schistosomiasis and other parasites.

In addition, pumpkin seeds can also induce diuresis to reduce swelling and promote lactation, and can be used for postpartum hypogalactia’s disease, diabetes, prostatic hypertrophy, edema of hands and feet, whooping cough and hemorrhoids.

This way, the curative effect is better. 01 expel beef tapeworm

Can be chewed with pumpkin seeds (stir-fried, shelled), or decocted with betel nut slices in water.

Eating pumpkin seeds on an empty stomach in the morning, taking areca nut decoction 30 minutes later, and drinking water with magnesium sulfate 2 hours later, the effect of expelling tapeworms is better.

02 expel ascaris

When treating ascariasis, pumpkin seeds can be ground (shelled and preserved), added with boiled water, honey or white sugar, mixed into paste and taken on an empty stomach. You can also fry pumpkin seeds and take them on an empty stomach. Stir-frying pumpkin seeds, grinding into powder, adding white sugar and boiling water, and can also be used for schistosomiasis.

03 Postpartum swelling of hands, feet and breasts

You can fry pumpkin seeds and add water to fry them. For postpartum hypogalactia, you can grind pumpkin seeds, add brown sugar and boiled water, and take them on an empty stomach in the morning and evening.

04 malnutrition

You can grind pumpkin seeds, peanut kernels and walnut kernels and take them in the morning and evening. Half a month is a course of treatment.

05 chronic prostatitis

You can chew a proper amount of sun-dried fresh pumpkin seeds every day (peeled, about 30 grams) and press Guanyuan point at the same time, which can effectively relieve the disease.

Chronic leg ulcer

Mash pumpkin seeds preserved for more than 2 years and apply them around the ulcer surface; Taking fresh purslane, mashing it into mud and applying it on the ulcer surface can effectively relieve the symptoms of ulcer.

07 whooping cough

After grinding, mix with brown sugar.

Note: Although pumpkin seeds are sweet, non-toxic and kill insects without harming vital qi, excessive consumption may lead to dizziness; Patients with stomach heat should eat less to prevent overeating from causing stagnation of qi and abdominal distension; People with qi stagnation should also be cautious.