Pumpkin oil

Pumpkin is grown up by mankind many centuries. This vegetable is allocated with special tastes and unique medicinal properties. To Russia pumpkin was delivered for the first time in the 16th century, since then it became one of traditional and main components of various dishes of Russian cuisine. Later pulp of this vegetable was recognized as one of the best products for baby and treatment-and-prophylactic food. Knew about useful properties of the pumpkin seeds containing about 40% of valuable oil in the Middle Ages. In Austria for the first time manually made pumpkin seeds oil. In the same country the decree that oil has to be used only as medicine was issued. It was possible to sell at that time it only in drugstores. Because of the unique structure and a set of useful properties pumpkin oil in the Middle Ages was called green gold (black). The cost of two hundred grams of oil was equated to the cost of the Golden Ring. Now pumpkin seeds oil is rather expensive too as production of this product is connected using very labor-consuming technologies. The special production technology of oil of pumpkin allows to keep a large number of components, useful to a human body.

Composition of pumpkin oil

Oil of grains of pumpkin contains a large amount of digestible proteins, vitamins E, A, V1, V2, V6, V3, V9, T, C, R, K, and also micro and macrocells (about 50) and such biologically active components, valuable to health of the person, as a chlorophyll, phospholipids, phytosterols and flavonoids. Especially there is a lot of in it zinc, magnesium, calcium, phosphorus, iron and selenium. The complex of polyunsaturated fatty acids which is a part of oil contains necessary for a human body linolenic and linoleic acids.

Useful properties of pumpkin oil

Curative properties of pumpkin oil are unique. The advantage of pumpkin oil consists in beneficial influence on work of digestive, cardiovascular, muscular, nervous and endocrine systems. This valuable product clears a human body of toxins, slags, carcinogens.

The important advantage of pumpkin oil consists in strengthening of immunity and maintenance it is normal of hormonal balance. Antiinflammatory, antineoplastic and wound healing properties of pumpkin oil are explained by the maintenance of a chlorophyll and large amount of F and A vitamins.

The components which are its part play an important role in protein, fatty, carbohydrate metabolism, and also synthesis of digestive enzymes and insulin, hemopoiesis processes. Vitamin E as a part of this product improves activity of blood vessels and heart. Some of its components reduce concentration of harmful cholesterol in blood and promote maintenance of arterial pressure at the constant level, ensuring harmonious and rhythmical functioning of a cardiac muscle. In this regard, pumpkin oil can bring notable benefit in treatment and prevention of a hypertension, atherosclerosis, arrhythmia, anemia and ischemic disease.

The advantage of pumpkin oil for skin is caused by high content of phytosterols in it – hormones of a natural origin. Phospholipids of oil provide the correct functioning of a gall bladder and liver, recovering its structure and protecting from formation of fatty deposits. Therefore it is regularly useful to use oil at cholelithiasis, fatty dystrophy of a liver, a viral hepatitis, cholecystitis, a holetsistokholangita and dyskinesia of biliary tract. Use of pumpkin oil is shown also at stomach ulcer, a coloenteritis, a gastroduodenita, colitis. It possesses easy laxative action and with success is applied in treatment of a meteorism and locks.

Pumpkin oil finds successful application also in treatment of helminthoses. This vegetable product in fight against tape helminths is especially effective.

Pumpkin oil has the expressed sedative properties and is very effective at sleeplessness, diseases of a nervous system, neurotic frustration, headaches.

Oil of seeds of pumpkin, as well as seeds, are successfully applied in traditional medicine to treatment of diseases of bodies of urinary, and also male and female reproductive systems. The product exerts beneficial influence on function of a prostate, normalizes a spermatogenesis and strengthens erectile function. Broad use of pumpkin oil in treatment of adenoma, prostatitis, a prostate, and also diseases of a bladder, kidneys and urethras is explained by these properties.

Pumpkin oil finds not less broad application in treatment of various gynecologic diseases – a colpitis, an erosion of a neck of uterus, an endocervicitis, diseases of ovaries and a breast. The product facilitates the painful states accompanying the climacteric and premenstrual periods and normalizes an ovarian cycle.

Therefore it is useful to use pumpkin oil in complex treatment of female and male infertility.

Antiallergic and bactericidal properties of oil do it very useful at skin diseases and various traumatic injuries of skin. However it cannot be used at fat face skin. Harm of pumpkin oil for very fat skin that it clogs up pores. It can lead to formation of heat-spots, abscesses.

Route of administration of pumpkin oil

For treatment of many diseases it is necessary to accept on one teaspoon of oil three times a day approximately for an hour to food or in two hours after food. It is impossible to wash down with water this product. Duration of a course of treatment can make from two weeks to one month.

Harm of pumpkin oil

In addition to advantage there is also a harm of pumpkin oil which can be shown at non-compliance with the provided dosages at its use.

Pumpkin oil can do harm at a diabetes mellitus or at individual intolerance of vegetable oil.

At cholelithiasis the product should be used with care as it can provoke movement of stones in a gall bladder.