Pumpkin extracts of cucurbitaceae plants from pumpkin fruit extract, native to North America. Pumpkins contain starch, protein, carotene, vitamin B, vitamin C and calcium, phosphorus and other elements.
The sanitarian function of pumpkin extracts: pumpkin extracts have pumpkin seed extract obesity prevention and treatment of chronic osteomyelitis, cure asthma for, spuc, maternal stimulate the secretion of milk, and so on. Pumpkin is one of our traditional fall blood sugar food, Japan in the 1970 s to the application of pumpkin powder treatment
Diabetes was reported. Over the years, many researchers have been trying to squash the prevention and control of diabetes research, put forward the pumpkin pectin, cyclopropyl amino acids and trace elements of zinc, chromium (Cr) may have on the pumpkin a major for the prevention and treatment of diabetes To use.
The chromium content of pumpkin among the top of the of all kinds of vegetables. Cr ghana seed extract is one of the essential trace elements, trivalent chromium is the activity of glucose tolerance factor (GrP) center, can stimulate the uptake of glucose, help maintain glucose tolerance. The human body lack of chromium is leading to high blood pressure, diabetes One of the cause of the disease, coronary heart disease, chromium can inhibit malignant tumors within the body, not only can promote the release of insulin in the body, make the person with diabetes insulin secretion is normal, fall blood sugar is very effective for that. Cyclopropyl amino acids can promote insulin Secretion, enhance the sensitivity of insulin receptor, glucose enzyme can be activated at the same time, to speed up the conversion of glucose, reduce blood sugar levels.
In addition, pumpkin is rich in pectin, can make the postprandial blood glucose turmeric extract powder and blood insulin levels drop; Pectin has full effect at the same time, can improve the patient's hunger, which can control and auxiliary treatment of diabetes and its complications, is the person with diabetes diet . In addition, such as pumpkin polysaccharide was isolated from pumpkin, and through the animal experiments in mice preliminary determine the pumpkin polysaccharide hypoglycemic mechanism. Clinical trials demonstrate that patients with diabetes eating pumpkin powder 100 g, daily check after 10 d, patients have different degree Improved, some even heal, the pumpkin powder has been "Nemesis" expert as diabetes.
Cholesterol-lowering functional separation and extraction of pumpkin polysaccharide from pumpkin, and through the animal experiments proved that pumpkin polysaccharide on diabetes mice, can obviously reduce the serum levels of TG, Tch and LDL. Serum TG, Tch, and LDL is promoting factor for atherosclerosis, Especially higher LDL is a risk factor for myocardial infarction. The chemical composition jujube seed powder of pumpkin polysaccharide contains a lot of uronic acid, there are more negatively charged acidic genes, speculated that pumpkin polysaccharide may have similar to the role of phospholipids, can remove cholesterol, prevent artery Hardening.