Pumpkin is a sattvic food
Pumkin
According to Ayurveda, pumpkin is a sattvic food.Pumpkin a nutritious vegetable included in our diet possessing various health benefits. Pumpkin fruit is a natural coolant. It is used as a remedy for fatigue, body-ache, loose stools, intestinal worm infestation etc. It has beneficial effect on teeth, throat and eye. Seeds are considered as good brain tonic.
Pumpkin fruit is used to cure fatigue, thirst, cold, ache, throat and eye infection. It purifies the blood.
In children it cures excess body fat, gastric problems and irritable bladder.
Pumpkin seeds are used to treat irritable bladder and prostatic complains. They are anti-parasitic, taenicide and diuretic.
Seeds have beneficial effect on spleen, lungs and kidney. Treats gastritis, burns, chest pain, thirst, enteritis, bronchitis, fever, headaches, neuralgia, hemorrhoids, anemia, constipation etc
Leaves are easy for digestion. They are used as a remedy for nausea, fever, pain, biliousness, bladder disorders, stomach upsets, intestinal worms, bed-wetting, rheumatism, benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), burns and wounds.
Fruit stalk is used to cure heart burn.
Regular usage of pumpkin seeds is known to cure prostate cancer.
Seeds are also used as a remedy for whooping cough in small children. They are also used in malnutrition and improves breast milk production.
Whole plant is used to treat bronchial asthma, cough, edema, headache, cold, heart diseases, lung infection, piles, arthritis and fever.
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