OFFICIAL NAME- Cucurbita pepo
HEALTH BENEFITS- It has impressive health benefits such as free radical scavenging, good for hair, teeth, bones and skin. Whole plant is used to treat bronchial asthma, cough,edema, headache and lung infections. It improves breast milk production.
HOME REMDY – Fresh fruit juice mixed with rose water is used in earache.
Leaves paste is used in burns and boils.
Fruit boiled in water is used for intestinal problems.
NUTRITION CONTAINS- It contains vitamin A,C,E and B2. Natural coolant, brain tonic, blood purifier, antiemetic.
OTHER NAME-kaduya, gangaphala and kashiphal.
FLAVOUR- Sweet and Bitter in taste.
CHEMISTRY- It is rich in alkaloids, flavonoids and palmitic, oleic and linoleic acids.