The dried, ripe pumpkin seeds, are used phytotherapeutically.
Quality is specified in the German Pharmacopoeia (DAB).
HMPC monograph: Traditional-use: discomfort 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 associated with prostate adenoma stage I to II according to Alken or stage II and III according to Vahlensieck, in irritable bladder.
Commission E monograph: irritable bladder, micturition complaints in prostate adenoma stage I and II.
Empirical medicine: adjuvant in bladder dysfunction, bladder weakness, enuresis nocturna.