{"id":16164,"remedy_name":"Cucurbita Pepo","remedy_type":"Herbal Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Psoric Miasm","temperament":"Neutral","aggravation_time":"Neutral\/Anytime","keynote_indications":"Hansen mentioned that missionaries found the n.other tincture of great use in seasickness \nand vomiting during pregnancy. Bonino recorded that Cuc -p. 3c cured salivation and vomiting in a woman in \nwhom the menses were absent and who was erroneously supposed to be pregnant. \nGrist recorded a case in which a woman, four months pregnant, vomited almost from conception and for six \nweeks had not retained a meal. \u201cI am almost starved to death,\u201d she said, was pale, haggard, tongue clean. \nSoon after eating or drinking anything she became intensely nauseated. \nThe doctor got a fresh pumpkin stem, cut it into thin slices and covered them with alco hol. At the end of half \nan hour he poured off a little and made a lx dilution and directed half a drachm to be put in half a tea cupful of \nwater, a teaspoonful every two hours. There was no further vomiting. \nDr. Griste's indication was \u201cIntense nausea immediately after eating. \u201d \nCOMMENTS - For treatment, the seeds should be scalded, the softened outer skins peeled  off as the green, \ninner pulp is used. Use two ounces of the seeds, yielding an ounce of pulp, for each patient. The pulp should \nbe rubbed in a mortar or some other vessel to make a smooth mass. \nThe seed- may be mixed with milk or cream, and sweetened and taken like porridge. It should be taken in the \nmorning after a twelve to sixteen hour fast, and be followed in two hours by a castor -oil purge. \nThe infusion may be drank freely. The expressed oil of the pumpkin seeds, in doses of 6 to 12 drops, several \ntimes a day, is said to be a most certain and efficient diuretic, giving quick relief in scalding of urine, spasmodic \naffections of the urinary \nCuc\u00farbita pepo passages, and has cured gonorrhea. \nHalf a fluid ounce of oil of pumpkin seeds, taken upon a fasting  stomach, repeated in 2 hours, and in another \n2 hours followed by a dose of castor oil containing 1\/2 fluid ounce of the pumpkin-seed oil. has been effectual \nin removing tapeworm. \nHale's method of using this remedy was to have the patient eat only a little  of the lightest food all day, taking \nno supper and, on going to bed, to eat one ounce of the peeled seeds, bruised with milk or cream.  \nIn the morning on waking, he had them take a tablespoonful of castor oil, mixed with half a teaspoonful of pure \nsulfuric ether. No breakfast was taken, only a cup of tea or coffee. In two or three hours the oil would operate, \nexpelling the worm.","modalities":"","symptoms_by_system":[],"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}