The efficacy and function of pumpkin seeds

Diseases require improvement through medicine. Different diseases require different medicine choices. If you want to treat your own diseases well, you need to use the right medicine. The Chinese medicine Jinguahe is also very helpful in treating certain diseases. Let’s take a look at this medicinal herb.

[Alias] Gold melon seeds (Guangzhou Plant State), Wangshuiwang Fairy Peach, Milk Vine (Guangxi Medicinal Plant List), Melon Seed Core, Tree Melon Seed, Eye Tree Lotus, Melon Seed Vine (Color Atlas of Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicines), Stone Fairy Peach, Small Earrings, Tree Melon Seed (Guangxi Chinese Herbal Medicines), Tree Turtle, Winged Fish Grass (Guangzhou Air Force "Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicines Handbook").

[Source] The whole plant of the Asclepiadaceae plant. Plants of the same genus , Pumpkin Seed Gold , are also used as medicine.

[Original form] Vine, with latex. The stem is fleshy and weak, with internodes 5 to 11 cm long and roots on the nodes. The leaves are opposite, thick and fleshy, ovate, 1.2-2 cm long, about 1 cm wide, acute at the apex, cuneate at the base, entire, with obvious veins; and short petioles. The flowers are extremely small, usually several flowers forming nearly sessile bouquets, growing in leaf axils; the calyx is deeply lobed into 5 parts, the lobes are very small, ovate-oblong, and contain 5 glands; the corolla is pitcher-shaped, yellow-white, 5-lobed, and the lobes are triangular-ovate; there are 5 stamens, and the filaments are fused into a short tube. The follicles are delicate. The seeds have white silky hairs on the top. Flowering period is autumn.

[Habitat distribution] Grown in sparse mountain forests or valleys, stream sides, clinging on rocks or trees. Distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.

[Properties and flavors] "Color Atlas of Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicines": "sweet, slightly sour, cold."

【Functions and indications】 Clears away heat and resolves phlegm, cools blood and detoxifies. Treats lung heat and cough with blood, infantile malnutrition, dysentery, carbuncle and furuncle.

[Usage and Dosage] For internal use: decocted in water, 3-5 qian (1-2 liang for fresh ones). For external use: mash and apply.

[Additional prescription] ① Treat dry cough with blood due to lung dryness: 2 liang of Lithospermum officinale and Eupatorium edulis. Decoction in water and drink with honey.

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

Based on the above summary, pumpkin seeds still have certain pharmacological effects. What needs to be noted is that pumpkin seeds should be consumed according to one's actual situation and not in excess.