Cucumber, also known as courgette, diligent gourd, king gourd, prickly gourd, [cucumber vine, cucumber seedling, cucumber cream], is a cucurbitaceae cucumber with fruits, vines, and leaves into medicine. The fruit is oily green or emerald green in color, with small soft thorns on the surface. Cucumbers have the ability to remove heat and water
The efficacy of cucumbers
Sexual taste] Sweet, cool.
1."A Daughter?".Food Treatment:"Sweet, cold, poisonous. "
2."Daily Materia Medica":"Bitter, cool and non-toxic. "
3."Compendium of Medical Forestry":"Sweet and sour, cold. "
Attribution] 1"Materia Medica":"into the spleen, stomach, and large intestine. "
2."Summary of Materia Medica":"Start, foot too yin meridian. "
Function】 Heat, water, polydipsia, sore throat, fire eyes, soup burns.
1."Daily Materia Medica":"In addition to the heat in the chest, quench polydipsia, and improve the waterways. "
2."Southern Yunnan Materia Medica":"Relieve sores and ringworm, quench thirst. "
3."Lu Chuan Materia Medica":"Fever, body heat, thirst, scalds;Those who have dried melons for a long time can replenish the spleen and stop diarrhea. "
Dosage】 Internal: cooked or raw. External use: soaking, frosting or grinding.
The role of cucumbers:
Cucumber is a good medicine, in which vines, roots, and seeds can be used as medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cucumbers have a sweet and cold taste, and have the effect of clearing heat and quenching thirst and improving waterways. It can treat polydipsia, sore throat, red eyes and burns. Fever patients have a dry tongue, and eating some cucumbers has a good effect of clearing heat, invigorating and quenching thirst. For patients with sore throat and pink eye, use an old cucumber, dig out the seeds, fill it with reed nitrate, dry it in the shade, grind it into a very fine powder, and use it to blow into the throat or point the eyes. For burns or prickly heat, mash with fresh cucumbers and apply to the affected area. Cucumber and honey pickled food, can ** hot diarrhea, diarrhea.
Honey cucumber** (whitening and wrinkle removal).
Take fresh cucumber juice and add an appropriate amount of milk powder and honey, mix a few drops of wind oil essence and apply it to the face, wash it after 20 to 30 minutes, or wash the cucumber and cut it into thin slices and stick it directly on the face, which has the effect of emollient, whitening and wrinkle removal.
Honey Angelica dahurica** (spot removal and whitening).
1. Take 10 grams of Angelica dahurica and 10 grams of white aconite, grind finely, add an appropriate amount of water and honey to adjust the face, wash it after 20 minutes, it has the effect of removing wrinkles, eliminating spots and whitening, and is suitable for patients with facial pigmentation or chloasma spots.
2. Material: Angelica dahurica 6g;1 egg yolk;1 tbsp honey;1 tsp cucumber juice;3 teaspoons of olive oil.
Method: Put Angelica dahurica powder in a bowl, add egg yolk and stir well.
Add honey and cucumber juice, mix well and apply to the face, about 20 minutes later, then rinse off with water.
After washing your face, dip a cotton pad in olive oil and apply it to your face for about 5 minutes.
Then cover your face with a hot towel so that the cotton pad does not need to be removed.
Wait for the towel to cool, then remove the towel and cotton pad and wash your face.
Cucumber contraindications
"Southern Yunnan Materia Medica":"Those who move cold phlegm and have a cold stomach eat it, and have abdominal pain and vomiting diarrhea. "
1. The combination of cucumber and peanut is easy to cause diarrhea.
2. Cucumber is paired with pepper and celery, and vitamin C is destroyed.
3. Cucumber contains a vitamin C decomposition enzyme, and in daily life, cucumber is eaten raw, at this time it contains vitamin C decomposition enzyme to maintain a certain activity, if it is eaten with vitamin C rich food, such as chili pepper, etc., the vitamin C decomposition enzyme in cucumber will destroy the vitamin C of other foods, although there is no harm to the human body, but it will reduce the absorption of vitamin C by the human body.