8 health benefits of pumpkin

Pump­kin is the best prod­uct for the liv­er. What is there for the liv­er, and the kid­neys and stom­ach and eyes will thank you if you pam­per them with pump­kin dur­ing the sea­son. And the pump­kin sea­son lasts a long time — the pump­kin is stored for up to six months. So lean on the pump­kin and you will be hap­py.

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Pump­kin for the liv­er.

Take one large pump­kin, cut off the top along with the tail and take out all the seeds it con­tains. Instead, pour as much hon­ey as you like. Then close the pump­kin with a cut lid and put it in the base­ment or oth­er cool place. When 21 days have passed, take infused hon­ey along with pump­kin pulp 2 tea­spoons 3 times a day until the rem­e­dy runs out.

Elec­trolux

Pour a glass of dried and crushed pump­kin seeds with a glass of olive oil. In a water bath, bring to a tem­per­a­ture of 60 ° C and infuse for about 2 hours. Then put in a dark, cool place for a week. After 7 days, strain and the infu­sion is ready for use. It is nec­es­sary to take one tea­spoon 3 times a day half an hour before meals.

From ede­ma of car­diac and renal ori­gin

Fresh­ly squeezed pump­kin juice is a reli­able folk recipe for ede­ma, you need to drink it half a glass a day. To improve the taste, pump­kin juice can be dilut­ed with oth­er juices. Pump­kin juice is com­bined with all berry, fruit and veg­etable juices.

From worms

Pump­kin seeds are a pow­er­ful anthelmintic. Take 2 tbsp. spoons of unroast­ed pump­kin seeds and eat them in the morn­ing on an emp­ty stom­ach (you can drink a lit­tle milk). An hour lat­er, a strong dose of lax­a­tive should be tak­en. The worms will come out. Note: you can skip the pump­kin seeds through a meat grinder.

To get rid of worms, you should take only once on an emp­ty stom­ach about 30 g of pump­kin seed oil.

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The third way: take 300 g of raw pump­kin seeds, peel, leav­ing a green thin shell, care­ful­ly grind with a pes­tle in a mor­tar in small por­tions. Add 50–60 ml of water with con­tin­u­ous stir­ring in por­tions of 10–15 drops. To add fla­vor, add 10–15 g of hon­ey, jam or sug­ar and eat on an emp­ty stom­ach 1 tea­spoon for an hour the entire dose. After 3 hours, drink a lax­a­tive, and after anoth­er 30 min­utes, make an ene­ma.

From insom­nia

It is rec­om­mend­ed to use pump­kin pulp 2 times a day, 50 g in the form of por­ridge, before going to bed, you can take 1/3 cup of a decoc­tion of pump­kin pulp with hon­ey. Also, for insom­nia, you can pre­pare a heal­ing decoc­tion of almonds and pump­kin seeds. Take 20 almonds, 1 tea­spoon of peeled pump­kin seeds, chop every­thing and pour boiled water over it. Let it brew for 8 hours and drink in the evening.

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From hang­over syn­drome

A folk recipe for a hang­over: take pick­les, peel, grate or chop fine­ly. Mix pump­kin juice with chopped cucum­bers and a glass of brine. Mix every­thing, sea­son with sug­ar, black pep­per. Drink chilled with ice. Pump­kin con­tains a lot of pectins, which have pow­er­ful adsorb­ing prop­er­ties. They remove tox­ins and oth­er harm­ful sub­stances from the body, relieve irri­ta­tion from the mucous mem­brane of the gas­troin­testi­nal tract.

From fore­clo­sure

Pump­kin juice is used for intesti­nal dis­eases, impaired motor func­tion (con­sti­pa­tion), kid­ney dis­ease, hepati­tis, chole­cys­ti­tis. With pro­longed use, it has a diuret­ic effect.

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Cleans­ing the body

To cleanse the body, you need pump­kin stalks. To pre­pare the drug, take 2 tbsp. spoons of crushed pump­kin stalks, pour two glass­es of water and sim­mer for 15 min­utes. When the broth has cooled, strain and take 0.5 cups dur­ing the day.

For acne

Pump­kin seeds con­tain a large amount of zinc, so they should be eat­en in hand­fuls for acne, oily dan­druff, seb­or­rhea.

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