- Key Actions: Demulcent, Deworming.
- Parts Used: Seed oil
Pumpkin
Cucurbita pepo, Pumpkin
🌿 Traditional Herbal Medicine Profile
This page outlines the crude botanical applications, traditional herbal infusions, and active properties of Pumpkin. Herbal preparations act biochemically on body tissues.
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GENERAL
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HERBAL PROPERTIES & MODALITIES
- Cautions: None known.
- See also pp.42–51
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HERBAL INTERACTIONS & SAFETY
📊 Comparative Herbal Actions:
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 hypertrophyAbnormal enlargement of an organThe increase in the volume of an organ or tissue due to the enlargement of its component cells. (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 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: Andrew Chevallier, FNIMH — Herbal Remedies (Eyewitness Companions), and Dr. David Keifer, MD — Herbal Remedies Reference Guide. Synced with traditional botanical use and pharmacological outlines.
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