Pumpkin is high in antioxidants, which help strengthen the body's immune system.
Helps slow down aging, prevents wrinkles, dry skin problems, and protects skin from sunlight.
Pumpkin has 10 times more beta-carotene than carrots and 12 times more lycopene than tomatoes!
Benefits: Pumpkin helps nourish and maintain eyesight, prevents eye diseases, cataracts, optic nerve degeneration, night blindness (seed membrane)
Helps prevent heart disease, coronary artery disease, and ischemic heart disease.
Helps prevent and inhibit the formation of blood clots in blood vessels.
Helps prevent cerebral hemorrhage, which is the cause of paralysis.
Research from Mahidol University found that pumpkin contains proteins that can inhibit the growth of the AIDS (HIV) virus and also help inhibit cancer cells. It has been patented in Thailand.
Benefits of Pumpkin and its pharmacological effects Pumpkin has anti-cancer, anti-viral, anti-blood sugar level and protein synthesis inhibitory effects.
Helps prevent and reduce the risk of stomach cancer and lung cancer.
A study by Hanoi University found that the oil from the seed coat of the pumpkin plant is effective in treating liver cancer.
Helps prevent and reduce the risk of prostate cancer.
Helps expel phlegm. Gargle to help relieve sore throat or inflammation in the throat.
Pumpkin is suitable for patients who are in the recovery phase or those who have health problems, chronic diseases or are weak.
The roots of the bitter melon can be used as a hair wash to help make hair thicker and darker, solve hair loss problems, relieve itchy scalp, dandruff, and also kill lice (roots).
The Faculty of Pharmacy, Chiang Mai University and the Faculty of Science, Payap University have jointly studied the use of pumpkin seed oil to develop a cosmetic formula to reduce wrinkles. The results were so satisfactory that it received the “IFSCC Host Society Award 2011” from the International Federation of Cosmetic Chemists Conference.
Young pumpkin fruits can be used in a variety of dishes, such as boiling or steaming them and eating them with chili paste, or adding them to various curries, such as pumpkin sour curry.
Young pumpkin shoots are delicious when used in cooking (they smell similar to the shoots or leaves of bitter melon). Pumpkin dishes include kaeng liang, kaeng som, stir-fried with red chili paste, stir-fried with kae, boiled or eaten with chili paste, etc.
Pumpkin can be processed into many products, such as pumpkin juice and pumpkin capsules, etc.
Now that you know the benefits of winter melon, let's try to use the benefits of winter melon.