Jiang Ling said: "Brother, I suddenly thought of a strange question now. ”

Lin Feng looked at Jiang Ling and said, "Lingling, what's a strange question?"

Jiang Ling said: "Brother, you said that we have eaten winter melon, watermelon, pumpkin, why don't we have a pumpkin?

Lin Feng said: "The author of "Journey to the West" fictionalized a storyline, saying that Tang Taizong recruited strange people to go to the underworld to offer melons and fruits, and a person named Liu Quan was willing to risk death in order to find the soul of his beloved wife. Liu Quan committed suicide by taking medicine with pumpkins and other objects on his head, and the ghost brought gifts to meet the god of the underworld, and the prince of Yama was greatly moved, so he sent his husband and wife's souls back to yang. The local storyteller felt that talking was not enjoyable enough, so he changed it and changed it to a pumpkin to a pumpkin. The reason is: because the pumpkin was dedicated to the Lord of Hades, there was no one kind of pumpkin in the world since then. Liu Quan just coaxed the old man of Hades, and the favor he gave to the Divine Monarch of the Underworld was just an empty name of "Pumpkin", and the real thing remained in the Yang world.

It is inferred that the naming of the most important melon varieties in the southeast and northwest should be in the historical period when the national political and cultural center was located in the Central Plains, about the prosperous Han and Tang dynasties centered on Luoyang, Chang'an. This "center" itself is biased to the north, and the "northern" melon has become its blind spot, and I think the mystery of missing the melon lies in this. From another point of view, southerners can see it clearly when they are far away, and they used to call one or several kinds of melons "northern melons". Nowadays, some sources say that northerners call pumpkins pumpkins, and I think it happens to be upside down. So where did the "pumpkin" go? In fact, it has always been with us, and its cultivation area is as vast as that of watermelon, dongguan and pumpkin. In my opinion, the pumpkin is a typical representative of the northern melon, and everyone should know the saying of "northern and southern barbarians" in history.

The "fan" of the pumpkin needs to be carefully identified. In the past, Chinese used to name imported vegetable and fruit varieties as "fan", such as sweet melon, tomato, sweet potato, guava, custard, papaya, or "yang", onion, artichoke, artichoke, persimmon, cabbage, gourd, and so on. The people of my hometown, the ancestors all called the pumpkin Huzi or Hugourd, and after entering Lanzhou City, I found that people generally called it the pumpkin, which made me puzzled for a long time. In the process of reading, I slowly realized that it was the uneducated peasants in my hometown who called it the most correct. Huzi and gourd are the abbreviations of gourd and gourd, and the name gourd and gourd was established as early as the Zhou and Qin eras. The melon is just a regional colloquial name brought by immigrants, which reflects a kind of conceptual error in them, and they mistakenly recognize the difference between China and China as the difference between China and the rest of the world.

Pumpkin is only one member of the pumpkin family, so to truly identify a pumpkin, you must first understand pumpkin. I'm afraid there is no other vegetable that is so inconsistent with what people mean about pumpkin. Faced with the same thing, the one called the pumpkin, the one called the gourd, the one called the lettuce, the one called the gourd, the one called the gourd, the one called the zucchini -- and stop! How can the gourd be indistinguishable from the pumpkin? The pumpkin is planted for the flesh inside the shell, while the gourd is mainly the hard shell outside, this is completely different! Yes. However, all of the above names of pumpkins are precisely the source of its culture, and even in a botanical sense, pumpkins belong to the Cucurbitaceae family. In this way, to understand pumpkins, you must start with the gourd. ”

Lin Feng said: "Lingling, do you know that the nutritional value of pumpkin, watermelon and winter melon is different?"

Lingling said: "Brother, do you really not understand anything to me? Winter melon is a year-round herbaceous plant with tendrils on its stems, which can climb vines, has large leaves, and blooms yellow flowers. The fruit is spherical or long cylindrical, with a dark green skin with hairs and a white substance. The flesh of the winter melon is white, the flesh is thick, and the flesh is wrapped in a golden yellow melon pulp, and the skin and seeds of the winter melon can be used as medicine. The shape of the melon is like a pillow, also known as the pillow melon, which is produced in summer. Because when the winter melon is ripe, a layer of white substance will appear on the skin, like hoarfrost in winter, so the winter melon is also called white melon.

Winter melon contains more protein, sugar, and a small amount of calcium, phosphorus, iron and other minerals and vitamins and other nutrients. Winter melon is the only melon and vegetable that does not contain fat, and is rich in propanol disic acid, which can inhibit the conversion of carbohydrates into fat components, and because it has a strong diuretic effect, it can increase the weight loss effect, so winter melon is also known as "slimming melon".

Winter melon should be peeled, peeled, and rinsed before eating. Winter melon meat can be boiled in soup, stir-fried, or pickled with sugar to preserved fruit, and winter melon seeds can also be processed and eaten. The fresh winter melon flesh is well hydrated and has a refreshing taste.

The nutritional value of pumpkin, 1, detoxification, contains vitamins and pectin, pectin has good adsorption, can bind and eliminate bacterial toxins and other harmful substances in the body, such as lead, mercury and radioactive elements in heavy metals, can play a detoxifying role.

2. Protect the gastric mucosa and help digestion. The pectin contained in pumpkin can also protect the mucous membrane of the gastric gum tract from the irritation of rough food, promote ulcer healing, and is suitable for patients with stomach problems. Pumpkin contains ingredients that can promote bile secretion, strengthen gastrointestinal peristalsis, and help food digestion.

3. Prevent and treat diabetes and lower blood sugar. Pumpkin is rich in cobalt, which can activate the body's metabolism, promote hematopoietic function, and participate in the synthesis of vitamin B12 in the human body.

4. Eliminate carcinogens, pumpkin can eliminate the mutation effect of carcinogens nitrosamines, has anti-cancer effects, and can help the recovery of liver and kidney functions, and enhance the regeneration ability of liver and kidney cells;

5. To promote growth and development, pumpkin is rich in zinc, which participates in the synthesis of nucleic acids and proteins in the human body, and is an inherent component of adrenocortical hormone and an important substance for human growth and development. ”

Jiang Ling smiled at Lin Feng and said, "I also know the secret recipe for pumpkin cure." 1. Treatment of habitual miscarriage: 30 grams of old pumpkin, decoction with water, and taking it for a few days will have the effect of stabilizing the fetus.

2. Treatment of burns and scalds: mash the pumpkin to remove the juice and apply it to the affected area. Applying pumpkin vine juice to the affected area is also effective.

3. Treatment of long-term cough: cut off a few pumpkin vines, insert them into the bottle, let the juice flow in, take an appropriate amount of juice and wash it with boiling water.

4. Treatment of tapeworm disease: 120 grams of pumpkin seeds, eat on an empty stomach in the morning, take betel nut decoction two hours later, and take 20 grams of magnesium sulfate after 30 minutes to expel tapeworms.

5. Treatment of chronic bronchitis: 500 grams of fresh pumpkin (peeled), 15-20 red dates, appropriate amount of brown sugar, add water to boil soup and eat. This method has the effect of replenishing the qi in the middle and invigorating the lungs.

6. Treatment of hookworm disease: 120 grams of pumpkin seeds and betel nut, 12 grams of each morning and evening. Or take 90 grams of raw pumpkin seeds, eat before meals, 3 times a day, for a week.

7. Treatment of pulmonary carbuncle cough and purulent sputum: 500 grams of pumpkin peeled and cut into pieces, 250 grams of lean beef washed and cut into pieces, 25 grams of ginger. First, add water to the beef and ginger, stew until eight ripe, add pumpkin and stew, add salt and monosodium glutamate to taste until ripe, and eat continuously in batches. This method has the effects of phlegm, pus drainage, and detoxification. ”

Lin Feng looked at Jiang Ling and said, "The little girl really knows a lot, what about watermelons?"

Jiang Ling said proudly: "Clear away heat and relieve heat, facilitate urination, get rid of annoyance and quench thirst." The first effect of watermelon is to clear away heat and relieve heat, because from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine food therapy, watermelon is cold and cold, and if it is eaten properly in summer, it can relieve heat well. The second effect of watermelon is that it can facilitate urination, if the edema is caused by liver function, kidney function and heart dysfunction, proper consumption of watermelon can play a significant role in relieving edema caused by poor urination. The third effect of watermelon is that it can quench annoyance and thirst, because watermelon contains a lot of water, which can replenish sufficient fluid for the body, and then achieve the effect of eliminating borelessness and quenching thirst. The contraindication of watermelon is that watermelon is cold and cold, and for people with relatively poor gastrointestinal function and cold limbs, hands and feet, if used too much, it may cause chills and cold, which should be a cause for concern. ”

Lin Feng said, "Can pregnant women eat watermelon?"

Jiang Ling said: "Pregnant women can eat watermelon, watermelon is rich in glucose, vitamins, A and vitamin B, vitamin C, etc., but don't eat too much at one time. You can eat some appropriately, try not to eat longan hawthorn or the like in the first trimester of pregnancy, this is easy to lead to miscarriage, and everything else is fine. ”

Lin Feng said: "Let's go home and eat some pumpkin porridge, pumpkin contains starch, protein, carotene, vitamin B, vitamin C, calcium, phosphorus and other ingredients, rich in nutrients, is one of the ingredients we often use." Pumpkin has the effects of tonifying and nourishing qi in traditional Chinese medicine, such as blood lipids, lowering blood sugar, clearing heat and detoxifying. The Compendium of Materia Medica believes that pumpkin is sweet in nature, tonifies the spleen and stomach meridians, has the effect of tonifying and invigorating qi, reducing inflammation and relieving pain, can prevent diseases, can improve immunity, treat high blood pressure, treat asthma, can treat this chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma, can treat malaria and pain relief. In modern research, it can prevent prostatitis in men, and in modern research on pumpkin, pumpkin juice can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and help food digestion, so it is helpful for inflammation and ulcers in the gastrointestinal tract. ”

Jiang Ling said: "Okay, okay, let's eat pumpkin porridge when we go home, I also want pumpkin pie, let Sister Qingyan make it, the food she makes is delicious, better than what the restaurant makes." ”

Lin Feng said: "Yes, I also want to eat the food made by Qingyan, I haven't eaten the food she cooked for a long time, eating the food made by Qingyan is really a pleasure, it reminds me of Huang Rong in the Legend of the Condor Heroes." ”

Jiang Ling said: "Yes, Huang Rong is a good dish, and even Hong Qigong teaches national martial arts because of the coriander made of her dish." ”

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