Yangxin runfei said pumpkin

China's traditional Chinese medicine to

        Pumpkin is a treasure, yangxin zi lung the infinite. Autumn came, pumpkin sell very special qiao. After spring vivifying nourish, summer enough sunshine and growth, yellowing mature pumpkin has accumulated rich nutrition. Pumpkin is rich in nutrients, such as amino acids, active protein, carotenoids and many kinds of trace elements. Eat pumpkin can enhance human immunity, improve the autumn dry symptoms, chemical drying for peace. From medicinal value view, pumpkin can relieving asthma, detumescence. Continuous moderate eat some pumpkins, which can effectively prevent asthma, bronchitis and frequently encountered disease in autumn.

        Children especially should often eat pumpkin. Pumpkin contains rich in carotenoids, by human body absorbed into vitamin A, and vitamin A and protein, combining can form apparent protein, the synthetic substance in human body form good visual function, is very important. Children in the growth stage, if the lack of this kind of material, will produce unfavorable effects on the development of vision, cause night blindness.

        Ate pumpkin also want right amount, blindly only eat pumpkin, not with other vegetable melon and fruit phase allocate, will heartburn suffered, affect the person's face. Some people the pumpkin township villagers all day when staple food to eat, lead to the β, carotene, a day accumulates in human skin epidermis of corneous layer, can make human body organ nose and forehead, palms, and feet around the eyes, nails side skin present lemon yellow, the medical term for this kind of symptom "carotene yellow skin disease".

        Therefore, the pumpkin and other vegetables collocation to eat, eat once every few days. Now in the market pumpkin varieties rich variety, growing period long pumpkin, contain starch is more, suitable for steam to eat or braised food to eat. Still can use pumpkins through the steam drying processing, make pumpkin cakes. For starch less pumpkin, generally suitable for cooking. Red one and yellow skin, suitable for cooking eat, green tangerine peel for Fried to eat. (ZhangGongHua)