# Cucurbita Pepo

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **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 
and vomiting during pregnancy. Bonino recorded that Cuc -p. 3c cured salivation and vomiting in a woman in 
whom the menses were absent and who was erroneously supposed to be pregnant. 
Grist recorded a case in which a woman, four months pregnant, vomited almost from conception and for six 
weeks had not retained a meal. “I am almost starved to death,” she said, was pale, haggard, tongue clean. 
Soon after eating or drinking anything she became intensely nauseated. 
The doctor got a fresh pumpkin stem, cut it into thin slices and covered them with alco hol. At the end of half 
an 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 
water, a teaspoonful every two hours. There was no further vomiting. 
Dr. Griste's indication was “Intense nausea immediately after eating. ” 
COMMENTS - For treatment, the seeds should be scalded, the softened outer skins peeled  off as the green, 
inner pulp is used. Use two ounces of the seeds, yielding an ounce of pulp, for each patient. The pulp should 
be rubbed in a mortar or some other vessel to make a smooth mass. 
The seed- may be mixed with milk or cream, and sweetened and taken like porridge. It should be taken in the 
morning after a twelve to sixteen hour fast, and be followed in two hours by a castor -oil purge. 
The infusion may be drank freely. The expressed oil of the pumpkin seeds, in doses of 6 to 12 drops, several 
times a day, is said to be a most certain and efficient diuretic, giving quick relief in scalding of urine, spasmodic 
affections of the urinary 
Cucúrbita pepo passages, and has cured gonorrhea. 
Half a fluid ounce of oil of pumpkin seeds, taken upon a fasting  stomach, repeated in 2 hours, and in another 
2 hours followed by a dose of castor oil containing 1/2 fluid ounce of the pumpkin-seed oil. has been effectual 
in removing tapeworm. 
Hale's method of using this remedy was to have the patient eat only a little  of the lightest food all day, taking 
no supper and, on going to bed, to eat one ounce of the peeled seeds, bruised with milk or cream.  
In the morning on waking, he had them take a tablespoonful of castor oil, mixed with half a teaspoonful of pure 
sulfuric ether. No breakfast was taken, only a cup of tea or coffee. In two or three hours the oil would operate, 
expelling the worm.

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