Medicinal food from pumpkin flowers

In addition to its nutritional value, pumpkin flowers also have disease prevention and treatment value. According to Oriental medicine, pumpkin flowers are sweet, cold in nature and enter the heart meridian.

Pumpkin flowers not only have nutritional value but also have disease prevention and treatment value.

According to Oriental medicine, pumpkin flowers are sweet, cold in nature, affect the heart, spleen, and stomach meridians, have the effect of clearing heat, cooling blood, nourishing the liver and kidneys, brightening eyes, anti-inflammatory, detoxifying, relieving pain and anti-allergy... suitable for treating liver and kidney dysfunction, vision loss, urinary tract infections...

Here are some dishes and medicinal recipes from pumpkin flowers for readers to refer to when necessary.

Stir-fried pumpkin flowers with pork liver help brighten eyes

Pumpkin flower soup with rock sugar: 30 - 50g pumpkin flowers, 5 - 10g rock sugar, cook all of them into soup and eat during the day. This medicine has the effect of clearing heat, eliminating dampness, lowering qi and eliminating phlegm. Suitable for treating coughs with thick yellow phlegm, heavy limbs, poor appetite... or you can take 5 - 7 pumpkin flowers, a spoon of rock sugar, steep and drink.

Pumpkin flower and honeysuckle soup, gentian: 30 - 50g pumpkin flower, 15 - 10g young honeysuckle flower, 20 - 30g gentian. First, put gentian in a pot, add enough water, boil for 25 - 30 minutes, turn off the stove, filter the water, remove the residue, then add pumpkin flower and honeysuckle to cook into soup, season to taste and scoop out to eat.

The medicine has the effect of clearing heat, reducing fire, eliminating dampness, nourishing the liver and relieving jaundice. Suitable for jaundice, acute and chronic hepatitis, fatty liver, red eye...

Pumpkin flower and purslane soup: 30 - 50g pumpkin flower, 20 - 30g purslane, cook all together and eat for 5 - 7 days. This medicine has the effect of clearing heat, detoxifying, dispersing blood, reducing swelling, strengthening the stomach and intestines, promoting urination and defecation, and killing bacteria.

Suitable for dysentery syndrome, urinary tract infection, urinary tract stones (frequent urination, painful urination, bloody urine), boils, itching, colitis, constipation... In addition, can be combined with peas or black beans...

Stir-fried pumpkin flowers with pig liver: 50 - 70g pumpkin flowers, 200 - 300g pig liver, stir-fry and eat during the day. This medicine has the effect of nourishing the liver and brightening the eyes. Suitable for the following conditions: night blindness, impaired vision, nearsightedness, farsightedness...

Medicine from pumpkin flowers: 30g pumpkin flowers, 25g honeysuckle flowers, 15g tangerine peel, 30g dandelion, wash clean, boil and drink one dose per day, drink continuously for 5-7 days. The medicine has the effect of clearing heat, cooling blood, reducing inflammation, and relieving pain. Suitable for mastitis, fibrocystic mastitis, itching, hives, urinary tract infections...

Note: Pumpkin flowers are cold and stagnant, people with indigestion and cold hands and feet should not use them.

According to Health and Life