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Specimen profile
Pumpkin
Cucurbita moschata · Cucurbitaceae
Hindi · KadduMal · MathangaTam · Poosanikai
Sweet cooling gourd whose flesh, tender leaves and seeds all hold a place in traditional food and herbal practice.
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Pumpkin is a trailing annual vine bearing large lobed leaves, yellow trumpet flowers and sweet orange fleshed fruit. In traditional practice the ripe flesh is a light, cooling, easily digested food; the tender leaves are cooked as greens; and the seeds are used for urinary tract health and as a vermifuge.
Identification markers
Sprawling hairy vine with tendrils, large heart-shaped lobed leaves, bright yellow bell flowers, and ribbed pear or globe fruit with sweet orange flesh and flat cream-coloured seeds.
Rasa
Madhura
Guna
Laghu, Snigdha
Virya
Sheeta
Vipaka
Madhura
Dosha effect
PV-, K+
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