Can pregnant women eat pumpkin?

Female friends need to pay attention to their diet after they become pregnant. Some spicy and irritating foods must not be eaten, but also cannot be picky eaters. Nutrition must be balanced. Earth melon is a common food with very high nutritional value. Pregnant women can eat it appropriately, which is very beneficial to the body. However, earth melon has the effect of activating blood circulation, so it must be consumed in moderation and never in excess.

1. Can pregnant women eat wild melon?

According to the Southern Yunnan Materia Medica: "There are two types, red and white. The red one treats women's leucorrhea, promotes menstruation and relieves fever; treats cough, lung meridian heat accumulation and carbuncle, and also treats women's milk knot, yin and yang, uterine coldness, and men's sperm coldness; it also strengthens the spleen and stomach and produces body fluids, and eating raw stops vomiting and cures hunger; it nourishes the spleen, relieves stomach heat, relaxes the stomach, promotes urination, and stops bleeding in the large intestine; the white one treats lung heat, quenches thirst, promotes urination; treats lung abscess cough, and promotes lactation."

There is no mention above that pregnant women cannot eat it, so there is no need to worry. However, it is recommended not to eat too much. Pregnant women should diversify their food to avoid nutritional imbalance and keep a happy mood.

2. Nutritional value of wild melon

The ground melon is also known as the grandfather's beard. Because it grows curly beards like a vine and climbs on other objects. The fruit is oval shaped like a red or yellow goose egg. The taste of wild melon is bitter and sweet, cold in nature and non-toxic. Functions and indications: Clears the liver and promotes bile secretion, moistens the lungs and relieves cough. Treat jaundice, chronic hepatitis, lung heat cough, bleeding, lack of milk, leucorrhea, and infantile malnutrition. Nowadays, its root, namely, the root of the wild radish is used.

The root of the wild gourd is rich in fatty acids, amino acids, carotene, choline, etc. It can eliminate toxins and fight cancer, clear heat and remove blood stasis, reduce swelling and relieve pain, treat carbuncles and swelling, and has inhibitory effects on sarcoma, cervical cancer, and liver cancer. Grinding the roots of the wild gourd into powder can promote sebum secretion, kill bacteria, eliminate scars, tighten the skin, and tighten pores, and has a high beauty and skin-beautifying effect. Medical research has found that there are more than 40 plant factors in the root of the wild gourd that are beneficial to human skin, making it one of the most ideal cosmetic ingredients. Therefore, major cosmetics manufacturers in Japan and South Korea have made the root of the Chinese angelica root one of their indispensable main raw materials, and the root of the Chinese angelica root has spread along with the global green herbal trend.