The dried, ripe pumpkin seedsare used phytotherapeutically.
Quality is specified in the German Pharmacopoeia (DAB).
HMPC mon ograph: Traditional-use: complaints of the urinary tract in benign prostatic hyperplasia or irritable bladder.
ESCOP mon ograph: micturition complaints, painful urination, frequent urination, nocturnal urge to urinate, urinary retention, residual urine formation in connection with prostate adenoma stage I to II according to Alken or stage II and III according to Vahlensieck, with irritable bladder.
Commission E-monograph: irritable bladder, micturition complaints with prostate adenoma stage I and II.
Empirical medicine: adjuvant for bladder dysfunction, bladder weakness, enuresis nocturna
Ingredients: oil, proteins, carbohydrates, phytosterols, tocopherols, s.a. cucurbitacins