Introduction
Clean land is good for growing white Ashgourd. There are many varieties of white Ashgourd like small and big, round, long and round etc. Red Pumpkin is used in vegetables. Red Ashgourd has more quantity of sugar. White or brown Ashgourd is used in making Halwa Pak and Ashgourd and in making medicines also white or brown Ashgourd is used.
Properties
Eating Ashgourd on empty stomach keeps the body flexible and energetic. In incurable diseases like heart disease, piles, asthma, ulcer, drinking Ashgourd juice 3 times a day is beneficial. Ashgourd vegetable increases the power of digestion, Ashgourd juice increases blood, flesh, fat and semen. It is beneficial in heart diseases, gives strength to the brain, helps in loss of memory. Being a bile pacifier, Ashgourd is beneficial in stomach irritation, chest irritation, thirst, acidity and vomiting. Ashgourd and its seed juice is useful for prostate gland. Ashgourd juice increases the amount of urine. Urination is easy by consuming Ashgourd. Ashgourd calms down madness, burning sensation, chronic fever and blood-bile. Ashgourd is also useful for cough and asthma. It is also soothing in body swelling, stones and diabetes. Consuming white Ashgourd in large quantity leads to clear stools and good sleep.
Harmful effects
White Ashgourd is heavy to eat. Therefore, its excessive use is harmful for the body.
Treatment for various diseases
1. Acidity:
By consuming Ashgourd daily, the acid inside the body of the patient of acidity comes out. Ashgourd removes the burning sensation in the stomach and food pipe. Eating 2 Ashgourd sweets (Petha) daily after meals in the morning and evening does not aggravate the bile.
Acidity is cured by drinking pumpkin (white Ashgourd) juice with sugar.
Whenever the acidity patient eats, eating 2 pieces of Ashgourd after the meal cures the acidity.
2. Piles:
Eating Ashgourd cures piles and constipation.
3. Urination (pain or burning sensation while urinating):
Mixing 1 cup Ashgourd juice and 1 teaspoon ground turmeric and drinking it is beneficial in Urination (burning sensation while urinating). By increasing the quantity of Ashgourd juice gradually, urine comes out freely.
4. Stone:
Petha removes stones from urinary bladder, kidney and gall bladder. Mixing little Jawakhar and Hing in 1 glass of juice of Ashgourd and drinking it twice removes stones. Consuming Ashgourd cures the pain of stones.
Mixing Hing and Jawakhar in the juice of Pumpkin (White Ashgourd) and giving it to the patient removes stones.
White Ashgourd contains Vitamin B and C which is useful in stone disease.
Extract juice of Ashgourd and mix Jawakhar and Jaggery in it and drink it every morning and evening. This cures urine blockage, diabetes and stone disease.
5. Inflammation and Burning:
White Ashgourd protects from heat and cures inflammation and swelling. Drinking Ashgourd juice cures burning sensation in urine.
6. Jaundice:
White Ashgourd removes heat from the liver. Its consumption is beneficial in jaundice. Chewing Ashgourd or drinking its juice is also beneficial.
7. Asthma or breathing disease:
Taking about 3 grams of Ashgourd powder with warm water cures even the most chronic cough.
Taking Ashgourd root powder mixed with warm water cures cough and asthma.
By eating Ashgourd, an asthmatic patient stops using inhalers and gets relief.
8. T.B. (Tuberculosis):
Drinking Ashgourd juice provides relief from burning sensation in the lungs of patients suffering from Tuberculosis (T.B.).
Mix honey in Ashgourd juice and take it 3-4 times a day. Ashgourd sweets sold in the market are also beneficial for T.B.
9. Nose Bleeding:
Soak 50 grams of Ashgourd overnight in a clay pot filled with water. Eating Ashgourd in the morning and drinking this water stops nose bleeding.
Mixing lemon or gooseberry juice in Ashgourd juice as per your wish and drinking it cures nose bleeding and also cures bleeding in the lungs. Eating Ashgourd sweet daily cures nose bleeding.
At night, before going to bed, put 2 pieces of Ashgourd sweet in 1 glass of water. Eating Ashgourd as soon as you wake up in the morning and drinking its water stops nose bleeding within a day.
10. Intestinal worms:
By grinding and filtering the middle part of pumpkin seed in milk and mixing little honey in it and feeding it or by feeding 12 grams of oil of the middle part of white Ashgourd seed with milk 3 times at an interval of 2-2 hours and giving purgative of castor oil (in the form of liquid) on it, the worms stuck inside the stomach get removed.
Consuming Ashgourd vegetable and sweets also kills the worms in the stomach.
11. Miscarriage (failure to conceive):
Feeding Ashgourd or giving its juice to pregnant women helps in preventing miscarriage, and the child's health also becomes good.
12. Sciatica:
Consuming the juice of white Ashgourd provides relief in sciatica and migraine.
13. Nervous system and epilepsy:
Eating Ashgourd is beneficial if the patient suddenly gets epilepsy or suffers from nervous system problems.
14. Diabetes:
Consumption of Ashgourd cures the pancreas and is beneficial in diabetes.
15. High Blood Pressure:
Consumption of Ashgourd is beneficial in high blood pressure. Ashgourd protects from blood pressure and heat.
16. Heart diseases:
Heart patients must eat Ashgourd once before bypass surgery. Ashgourd relieves angina pain immediately and opens blocked arteries. Drinking Ashgourd juice 3 times a day is beneficial in heart diseases.
17. Leucorrhoea:
In women's leucorrhoea, excessive menstrual discharge, anemia, etc., eating Ashgourd's greens fried in ghee or mixing sugar in its juice and drinking half a glass of it in the morning and evening is beneficial.
18. Excessive bleeding during menstruation:
Eating brown pumpkin greens cooked in ghee or extracting its juice and adding sugar to it and drinking half a cup each morning and evening helps in bleeding during menstruation, burning sensation in the body and blood deficiency diseases in women.
Drinking 1 glass of Ashgourd juice daily 15 days before menstruation reduces the bleeding during menstruation. Eating 2 pieces of Ashgourd after meals is beneficial. Caution: Ashgourd should not be consumed at all during menstruation. Consuming Ashgourd during menstruation is harmful.
19. Viryavardhak (increases sperm count):
Eating Ashgourd sweet and vegetable increases semen. Ashgourd stops leucorrhoea in women and reduces obesity.
20. Strength enhancer:
Eating sweet dish made of Ashgourd after meals makes the body strong and well-shaped (strong and powerful). Eating 2 pieces of Ashgourd daily is beneficial in Pitta disorders.
21. Madness:
In the disease of madness, when the eyes of the patient become red and the pulse rate becomes fast, then giving 1 glass of Ashgourd juice to the patient calms the patient down.
Mixing 0.576 grams of Ashgourd seeds powder and 0.144 grams of Kushtha powder with 4 grams of honey and licking it cures the disease of madness or madness.
Mixing Ashgourd, Shankhahuli and Brahmi with raw cow milk and feeding it cures madness or madness.
Mixing 28 ml to 112 ml of Ashgourd (Brown Pumpkin) juice cures madness.
22. On scorpion bite:
By rubbing pumpkin (white pumpkin) in water and applying it on the part of the body where the scorpion has bitten, the poison of the scorpion bite gets removed.
