- Key Actions: Demulcent, Deworming.
- Parts Used: Seed, Seed oil
Pumpkin
Cucurbita pepo, Pumpkin
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Psoric Miasm
The Psoric miasm is considered the mother of all chronic diseases. It primarily manifests as functional nervous weakness, allergies, skin itching, eruptions, and hypersensitivity.
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MODALITIES ETC
- Cautions: None known.
- See also pp.42–51
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Often used with: Saw palmetto (Serenoa serrulata)
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SKIN
- pumpkin seeds are a good dietary source of iron, zinc, and selenium.
- Pumpkin seed Cucurbita pepo While pumpkins are best known for pie and Halloween, its seeds offer well-established nutritional benefits.
- full of high-grade essential fatty acids and trace elements, notably zinc, the seeds make an excellent food supplement.
- medicinal uSeS Parts used Seed • Seed oil Key actions Demulcent • Deworming agent • Diuretic • Hormonal agent benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH) Seeds and seed oil are often used to treat the early stages of enlargement of the prostate gland, or BPH.
- Recommended by the German Department of Health, the seeds are often effective at relieving BPH symptoms such as difficulty in urination.
- They do not appear to reverse enlargement of the gland.
- other uses Key constituents within the seeds have an estrogenic activity , so regular intake may prove helpful in relieving menopausal symptoms.
- The seeds make an effective treatment for worms, CuCuRBITA PePo key information Safety ★ ★ ★ ★ traditional uSe ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ reSearch ★ ★ ★ ✩ beSt taKen aS Seed ✓✓✓ doSage 10g a day often uSed with Saw palmetto (Serenoa serrulata) cautionS None known.
- See also pp.42–51.
- DrieD seeDs seeds are an effective deworming agent notably tape worm, and can be safely used by children and adults, including during pregnancy .
- Large quantities need to be taken; seek professional advice.
- fruit pulp is used as poultice for burns 109
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Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Robin Murphy, MD — Lotus Materia Medica, 3rd Edition. Compiled in accordance with classical homeopathic provings and clinical practice.
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