From the Chinese medicine point of view, the good thing about eating pumpkin seeds is that they have the efficacy of killing worms, and the bad thing is that patients with schistosomiasis who consume pumpkin seeds may have adverse reactions such as diarrhea, nausea, loss of appetite, and so on. Pumpkin seeds belong to traditional Chinese medicine, when using the drug, it is recommended that you can ask the pharmacist before use. Pumpkin seeds are the seeds inside the pumpkin, which have the effect of killing worms, mainly for the treatment of tapeworm disease, schistosomiasis and so on. The reason is that pumpkin seeds contain pumpkin zein, which is an effective ingredient in deworming, and has an inhibitory effect on beef tapeworms or pork tapeworms, as well as an inhibitory and killing effect on schistosomiasis larvae. Pumpkin seeds are usually ground into powder and taken with cold water. It should be noted that when pumpkin seeds are used to treat schistosomiasis, there may be reactions such as diarrhea, nausea and loss of appetite in the initial period of taking the medicine, which can disappear soon. Late patients taking pumpkin seeds, jaundice index can be seen in a few cases, and even induced hepatic coma, so the late schistosomiasis patients should be used with caution. Animal experiments have shown that pumpkin seeds on the normal mouse liver, spleen, kidney, duodenum, etc. can cause temporary pathological damage, hepatic glycogen decrease and fat increase, after stopping the drug can be quickly returned to normal, but the current treatment has not been patients with such symptoms. Pumpkin seed belongs to a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, if you need to use pumpkin seed treatment, it is recommended to consult a pharmacist before use, in order to avoid adverse reactions.