In one of my previous articles, I gave you some of the most important reasons why you should eat pumpkin, and at the same time, I promised to come back with some secrets to using pumpkin as a natural medicine. There are many recipes for natural pumpkin remedies. In this letter, I intend to introduce some of them, indicating in which situations you can use them or what health problems they can treat.
Let's take a closer look at what pumpkin heals:
- Toothache. Cut the pumpkin tail into thin shavings and add a cup of boiling water. Let it brew for 1 hour. Rinse your mouth with warm infusion. After three rinses, you will forget about the toothache.
- Gum disease. This recipe requires 2 tablespoons of pumpkin seed oil, salt, and 250 ml of water. Heat the oil slightly in a water bath. Add a pinch of salt to warm boiled water, stir until completely dissolved. For gum disease, as well as for the prevention of caries and the formation of dental plaque, rinse your mouth with oil 2-3 minutes 15 minutes before meals. Spread it out. Then rinse your mouth with warm salt water. Repeat every day for a week.
- Burns, eczema, skin inflammation. It is good to make compresses from pumpkin pulp. To do this, rub it on a coarse grater, squeeze it, attach it to the affected areas on a gauze bandage, fix it. It's good to alternate with pumpkin juice compresses.
- Asthma. Cut a kilogram of pumpkin pulp into pieces and add 1 liter of water. Cook over low heat for an hour. Then strain the broth, add 1 tsp. ginger powder and 1 tsp. licorice root. The mixture must be boiled for 10-15 minutes. Take one teaspoon 20 minutes before bedtime.
- Anemia. Eat 150-200 g of raw pumpkin pulp every day.
- Hemorrhoids. Squeeze the juice from a ripe pumpkin and strain it with a bandage or gauze. Squeeze fresh juice every day. Drink 50-60 ml of pumpkin juice twice a day for 30 days.
- Pneumonia and colds. Mix the pumpkin pulp grated on a coarse grater with flour and add warm milk, from this knead the dough. Form cakes, wrap them in gauze and apply on the neck, chest and back.
1. Insomnia, stress relief.
- Ingredients: 300 g of raw pumpkin pulp, 2 tablespoons of honey, 2 liters of water. Boil the pumpkin pulp over low heat until soft, drain the broth, add honey. Drink with nervous exhaustion, insomnia, 0.5-1 glass 2 hours before bedtime, daily for 2 weeks.
- Ingredients: 1 teaspoon of peeled pumpkin seeds, 20 almonds, 250 ml of water. Grind almonds and seeds into a powder and add boiled water. Leave it on for 8 hours. Take 50 ml in the evening before going to bed every day for insomnia until sleep is completely normalized.
- Musculoskeletal diseases.
- Heat pumpkin seed oil in a water bath so that it becomes warm. Apply to the affected joints and massage with light circular movements. Recommended for arthritis, including gout. Apply every day for 7-10 days.
- Ingredients: 50 ml pumpkin seed oil, 2 tablespoons of dried wormwood. Crush the wormwood, add oil and put in a water bath for 1.5 hours. Infuse 48 hours, drain. Store the mixture in the refrigerator, keep the required amount at room temperature for 30 minutes before use. Rub into joints for arthritis to improve their mobility 2 times a day for 14 days.
- Hypertension. For the recipe you will need: 200 g of raw pumpkin pulp, 30 g of raisins and sprouted wheat, 1 tablespoon of liquid honey. Grind pumpkin, raisins, wheat in a blender, add honey and mix. Keep refrigerated. Use 1 tablespoon for breakfast for 10 days.
The spectrum of problems that can be solved by taking medications from different parts of this vegetable is extremely wide. If I put all the recipes together, I could write a book.
I think you should start by including pumpkin in your diet. Then you will decide which of the above remedies to try.