Why can't we put pumpkins at home during the Spring Festival?

This is a folk custom. It is lucky to celebrate the New Year. The pronunciation of "pumpkin" and "sad" is similar, so we old people throw away this "sad" in order to stop living a hard life.

Don't bring "difficulties" into the new year.

If it's not much, eat it and get a good prize. This is also a part of folk customs and traditional culture.

Efficacy and function of pumpkin

Chinese medicine believes that pumpkin is warm and sweet, and enters the spleen and stomach. Has the functions of invigorating middle energizer, invigorating qi, diminishing inflammation, relieving pain, detoxicating and killing insects. Can be used for treating qi deficiency and fatigue, intercostal neuralgia, malaria, dysentery, opium detoxification, ascaris, bronchial asthma, diabetes, etc.

1, cancer prevention and treatment

Prevention of esophageal cancer and gastric cancer also plays a certain role in preventing colon cancer, and at the same time helps to restore the function of liver and kidney and enhance the regeneration ability of liver and kidney cells.

2. Protect gastric mucosa

Promote bile secretion, avoid the stimulation of coarse food, strengthen gastrointestinal peristalsis and help food digestion.

3. Reduce blood sugar and blood pressure

Regulating the balance of insulin and maintaining normal blood pressure and blood sugar is also an ideal diet food for obese people.

4. Prevention of prostate

The lipids in pumpkin seeds have good therapeutic and preventive effects on urinary system diseases and prostatic hyperplasia.

5, often eat pumpkin, can make the stool smooth, rich skin, especially for women, have a cosmetic effect, Zhang Zhidong, a famous minister in the Qing Dynasty, once suggested that Empress Dowager Cixi eat more pumpkins.

6, pumpkin can also prevent stroke, because pumpkin contains a lot of glycerol acids such as linseed oleic acid, palmitic acid and stearic acid, which are all good oils.