Pumpkin warms the spleen and stomach, pumpkin folk recipe

In fact, eating pumpkin regularly can improve our body's immunity, improve the symptoms of autumn dryness, and turn dryness into peace. From the perspective of medicinal value, pumpkin can warm the middle and relieve asthma and reduce swelling. Eating pumpkin in moderation can effectively prevent asthma, bronchitis and other common diseases in autumn.

Eat pumpkin in moderation. If you eat pumpkin as a staple food all day, it is easy to cause its tail-carotene to accumulate in the stratum corneum of the human skin, making the skin of the nose, forehead, palms, soles, around the eyes, and around the nails appear lemon yellow. This symptom is medically called "carotene xanthoderma". Therefore, pumpkin should be eaten with other vegetables and eaten every few days.

"Compendium of Materia Medica in Southern Yunnan" states: Pumpkin is warm in nature, sweet in taste, enters the spleen and stomach meridians, can moisten the lungs and replenish qi, resolve phlegm and discharge pus, expel parasites, and cure coughs, etc. It is also believed to be able to "run across the meridians and facilitate urination."

The Compendium of Materia Medica states that pumpkin can "tonify the middle and replenish qi". Chen Xiuyuan, a famous doctor in the Qing Dynasty, said that "pumpkin is a wonderful product for replenishing blood". Eating pumpkin regularly can make bowel movements smooth and skin plump, especially for women. Chinese medicine believes that pumpkin has the effects of anti-inflammatory, analgesic, detoxification, nourishing the heart, and nourishing the lungs. According to the Chinese Medicinal Diet, cooking beef with pumpkin and taking Liuwei Dihuang Decoction can cure lung abscess.

Popular folk dietary therapy recipes for reference:

Constipation: 500g pumpkin, cook with tofu twice a day, morning and evening. Stomach disease: 500g pumpkin, 60g glutinous rice, cook into porridge.

Suitable for patients with gastric disease and duodenal ulcer.

Asthma: 750g pumpkin, 250g maltose, 50g ginger juice. Remove the seeds from the pumpkin and cut it into pieces. Boil it with water until it is well cooked. Then add maltose and ginger juice and simmer it over low heat until it becomes a paste. Eat 150g each morning and evening. This recipe is suitable for asthma caused by cold, heat, phlegm and asthma.

Hypertension: Cook 250 grams of pumpkin into soup, drink the soup and eat the pumpkin, once in the morning and once in the evening, for 1 month, then you can eat it intermittently.

Burns and scalds: Mash pumpkin flesh and pumpkin pulp into a paste and apply it to the wound, changing the dressing twice a day. Scalds or mild burns usually heal in 3 days.

Flat warts: Use a needle to poke several holes in a young pumpkin and collect the juice that flows out of the holes. Wash the affected area and apply the pumpkin juice to the affected area twice a day. Generally, the wart will fall off by itself after 3-4 days without leaving any trace.

Tonsillitis: 200 grams of pumpkin, 30 grams of honeysuckle, and 6 grams of licorice, decocted in water and taken twice a day.

Chronic bronchitis: 500 grams of pumpkin, appropriate amount of brown sugar, add water and cook until soft, eat the melon and drink the soup.

Pleurisy and intercostal neuralgia: Cook the pumpkin, spread it on a cloth, and apply it to the affected area to reduce inflammation and relieve pain.