This product is the seeds of pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata (Duch..) poiret), an annual trailing vine of the bottle gourd peel family. Mainly produced in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan and other places. Harvest the fruits when they are ripe in summer and autumn, take the seeds and dry them in the sun. Powder is mainly used, fresh ones are better.

[Property]

sweet, neutral. act on stomach and large intestine channels.

[Efficacy]

killing worms.

[Indications]

Used for worm syndromes/patterns. This product has the effect of killing worms, and its sweetness does not harm healthy qi. It is mainly used to kill tapeworms. Used to treat tapeworm disease, if used together with Areca Seed, the curative effect can be enhanced. For example, if the prescription is used to drive the sui, grind this product into powder, mix it with cold boiled water and take 60 to 120 grams of it. After two hours, take 60 to 120 grams of Areca Seed decocted with water, and then wait for half an hour. , take 15 grams of Xuan Ming Powder to promote diarrhea and expel the parasites.

[Usage and Dosage]

Grind into powder, 60~120g. Mix with cold water.

[Precaution]

Because cushaw seeds contain fatty oils, if you take medicine in large amounts, side effects such as loss of appetite and diarrhea may occur, but they will disappear on their own. Overeating cushaw seeds will cause abdominal distension and fullness.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product contains cushaw seed amino acid, fatty oil, protein and vitamins A, B₁, B₂, C, and carotene. Its active ingredient, cushaw seed acid, has a paralyzing effect on the middle and posterior segments of tapeworms and has a synergistic effect with Areca Seed. It has inhibitory and killing effects on schistosomiasis larvae; it causes the adult worms to shrink, their genitals to degenerate, and the eggs in the uterus to decrease, but it cannot kill them.