The Pumpkin acquired great popularity several years ago because it is a good remedy against the intestinal parasites, if a treatment done with seeds is followed, for which they are licúan yet and rind and is taken in uninformed during nine days. On the other hand, the fruit of the Pumpkin very is known by its curativas properties forehead the renales malaises vejiga and calculations. The smooth interior of the fruit or the macerated leaves, also is used in slight burns, macerated and placed like cataplasm on the affected part.
Herbaceous crawling of up to 2 ms of length. It presents/displays greenish leaves provided with deep lobes and a stem semicovered with pelillos. The flowers are of conical form; the fruits are globosos with white and flattened seeds. It lives in warm climates and temperings, associated to the tropical forest caducifolia, subcaducifolia, scrub xerófilo; forests mesófilo of mountain, encino and pine.
Like food
One says that eaten the pumpkin she is anafrosidíaca and barren the sexual appetite.
Dye mother
Up to 40 drops three times per day. An excellent antihelmíntica drink against the 250 oxiuros is recommended which are obtained mixing nugget g of pumpkin with 150 tamarind pulp g. It can be taken so like refreshment as or sweetened with honey at the rate of three glasses per day.
Galénicas Forms/Dosage
- Seeds: 50-100 g/día in adults, 20 to 40 g/día in children.
- Seeds (antihelmíntico): 30 to 40 g of seeds, chipped crushed and mixed with honey, hourly, during a day. Next to take laxative a saline one. In children to reduce the dose and to administer several consecutive days, before taking the laxative one.
- Emulsion of seeds (chipped, crushed): to cook 100 g of seeds in 500 cc of water. To take during the day. It is used in cases of insomnia and inflammations of the urinary routes.
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