What a magnificent treat and decorating with its presence more than one household plot is a cultivated pumpkin! Due to its unique taste and a unique amount of useful components, pumpkin, by right, plays the leading role on the autumn table.
Having found a use in cooking, traditional medicine, cosmetology, it helps us get rid of a number of diseases, cleanse the body and bring the appearance into an appropriate state. Everything is useful in a pumpkin: seeds, its pulp, and especially the oil obtained from seeds.
Pumpkin oil is called green gold. In the Middle Ages, only a wealthy gentleman could buy a small amount of oil. Currently, this tool is available to everyone.
The body can draw life energy from it. It has a pleasant taste and a rather refined, strong aroma. Determine the quality of the oil by inhaling it. A fresh product of good quality does not have a foreign or musty smell. In no case should pumpkin oil have a rancid taste. Its aroma should remind a smell of freshly cut pumpkin or cause association with slightly fried seeds. And no greasy notes!
Pumpkin oil has a high concentration of polyunsaturated fatty acids, linolenic and linoleic acids. These substances are extremely beneficial for the body. This combination is a great alternative to animal-derived fats. Knowing the value of this product, for sure everyone will want to include pumpkin oil in their diet . Its use is the basis of a healthy lifestyle and nutrition.
While analyzing the value of pumpkins, one cannot help but start with the substances responsible for youth and beauty - vitamins of groups A and E. Who else but them helps to fight extra wrinkles ?! By the content of vitamin K, which is responsible for blood coagulation, pumpkin occupies a leading position among other vegetables. A very rare vitamin T helps in the absorption of heavy foods and fights obesity.
Pumpkin seed oil has anti-sclerotic, anti-allergic and anti-ulcer properties. It includes a complex of plant origin - essential phospholipids. In addition to regulating membrane permeability and oxidative phosphorylation, the antitoxic effects of phospholipids, their participation in lipid metabolism and the regulation of triglycerides and cholesterol are known.
There is no lack of nutrients in a product such as pumpkin seed oil. Its application is diverse. From external for skin diseases to oral administration during prophylaxis of diseases of the biliary tract (its choleretic effect has long been known). Pumpkin seed preparations are used for liver diseases - dystrophy and cirrhosis; cholecystitis and hepatitis; gastritis and peptic ulcer diseases. Rectal suppositories are introduced with the content of this oil for adenoma, hemorrhoids, prostatitis and anal fissures.
Pumpkin seed oil is widely used in dermatology, where it successfully fights against psoriasis, pressure sores, trophic ulcers and eczema. Such fields of medicine as dentistry and gynecology do not forget it. In the first case, it is used for stomatitis and periodontal disease; in the second - with colpitis, erosion of the cervix, endocirvecitis. Even in the fight against certain types of helminths, this unique product helps.
Pumpkin seed oil is an excellent ingredient in balms, masks and creams. It is great for massages and compresses. Another important property of this magnificent product, in addition to softening, moisturizing and nourishing, is a natural ultraviolet filter for human skin.
Use it in your diet and you will always feel healthy and cheerful!