Something I never heard in a western country is that pumpkin is a remedy for diabetes. When my health went out of control at the beginning of the year I asked a Chinese doctor about ku gua, bitter melon, which everyone told me was good for my health. I even found it on a natural medicine website as a remedy for diabetes. He told me that bitter melon is good but pumpkin is better. In fact, he said, everything in the gua family is good for diabetes, the gua family being such things as melons and cucumbers. Maybe we could call it the gourd family of vegetables and fruits. Every week I make sure I eat at least one large serving bowl of pumpkin soup and I do believe it benefits me. Do any of you know more about this? Do you have any information about any other natural remedies for this problem? I even found a website where the author claimed ku gua cured his diabetes completely. I think he was from somewhere in South-east Asia. Bitter gourd’s properties are known in countries other than China. It’s such a shame I can’t stand it, euyuch! No doctor in the west and few in China say that diabetes is fully curable. Renee, are you reading this? Can you say more? Just click on the comment or no comment box below. (Renee is a lovely Chinese doctor friend of mine.)