What are the medicinal properties of pumpkin vine

Pumpkin vine has the effect of clearing the lungs, calming the liver, harmonizing the stomach and opening the channels, and is long used in the treatment of red pain in the eyes of fire, consumption and low fever, menstrual disorders, liver and stomach pain, and scalded by water and fire. Pumpkin vine belongs to the heat-clearing medicine in the clearing heat and detoxification (clearing the body of heat and toxicity) medicine, the family for the cucurbitaceae plant pumpkin stems. Pumpkin vine is also known as the pumpkin vine. Taste sweet, bitter, cold, into the liver meridian, lung meridian, stomach meridian, can be taken internally decoction, can also be used externally pounded juice applied. The adverse reactions and contraindications of pumpkin vine are not clear. Because of its cold nature, it should be used with caution for people with cold spleen and stomach (spleen and stomach weakness and cold). Pregnant women should be cautious of using it, and those who are allergic to pumpkin vine should be cautious of using it. If necessary, please use under the guidance of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner, and should not be used on its own to avoid adverse effects.