Eat pumpkin protecting stomach detoxification 
 
 
Tianjin medicine research institute associate researcher Li Gongzhu 
 
 
Source: life times 

    For busy modern people all day long, constipation, stomach bilges, stomach pain, such as small problems can be said to be the norm, went to the hospital to check often and check out specific diseases.
 
    At this time, might as well through the diet to improve gastric bowel health, such as eat pumpkin. Yellow, soft waxy waxy pumpkin is not only looked at the feast for the eyes, and nourishing the stomach; For women and detoxifying effect of hairdressing, qing yu zhang zhidong had suggested that empress dowager eating pumpkin. Pumpkin "compendium of materia medica recorded temperature, taste sweet, into the spleen and stomach", the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine thinks it has fill in beneficial gas poisoning, anti-inflammatory analgesic, solution of efficacy, effect on spleen and have a good diet. Pumpkin is rich in carbohydrates, pectin, can protect gastrointestinal mucosa from coarse food stimulation; Rich vitamin and calcium, phosphorus and other elements, is a master of jianwei xiaoshi. Pumpkin is rich in pectin can promote healing of ulcer area "adsorption" bacteria and toxins, including heavy metal materials such as lead, and thus play the role of detoxification. Pumpkin in the mannitol has the effect that will loosen your stools, can reduce the waste toxins in the harm to human body; Dietary fiber is very soft, can promote intestinal peristalsis, alleviate constipation, also does not hurt the stomach mucosa.
 
    Autumn winter season is the golden season to eat pumpkin, simple cooking, it is suitable for steam, cook porridge or soup. Pumpkin porridge, for example, millet, millet 100 grams of soaked in water for 20 minutes, pumpkin 300 g skinless piece, millet for 30 minutes after add pumpkin, stir well after continue to cook for 15 minutes. It is important to note that the pumpkin of temperature, eat will encourage more hot and humid. Therefore, it is a stomach hot breath symptoms, or suffering from itchy skin sores poison wind, jaundice, beriberi, diarrhea, swelling in conditions such as, the resistance to heat and wet person not to eat more.
 
 
 
 
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