MEDICINAL USES

     Pumpkin acts as an antirheumatic, a demulcent, a diuretic, a nervine, and a taenifuge.  It was used in folk medicine to treat kidney inflammation and intestinal parasites.  In today's world, it is used to treat irritable bladder and prostate problems.  Its seeds is said to help relieve dizziness.  Pumpkin is also used to treat boils, carbuncles, fever, measles, pregnancy, skin ailments, smallpox, sprains, tumor, urinary ailments, warts, and women's ailments.

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