Thursday, April 24, 2008

The Miracle of Cucumber

Cucumber is not only delicious to eat, it is also useful to guard our face skin to stay fresh and young. The normal method to benefit this fruit is for face mask.

The effect that will be received definitely could not be seen by us in an instant. But after for years using it, we will see its usefulness.

The cucumber has scientific name Cucumis sativus. It contains 0.65% protein, 0,1% fat and the carbohydrate totalling 2.2%. The fruit also contains calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B2 and vitamin C. Cucumber seed actually contains alkoloid poison, a kind of hipoxanti. The poison functions astreating children that suffered wormy.

If you suffers from throat sickness that cause you difficult to speak, cucumber seed can be used to treat you. The way it use: few cucumber seeds are mixed with a little salt and gargled several times a day. This medical treatment is believed be able to return the voice that is lost because of throat siockness effect.

A continuous headache could be overcome by consuming the raw cucumber or cooked cucumber. Moreover, the cucumber could also be used to treat the dysentery illness.

Clean The Kidney with Cucumber
Cucumber plant is indeed very close and familiar with us. As slaw, salad made of blanched vegetables served with peanut sauce, or as fresh drink. However, the usefulness of the cucumber is abundant. It can lower feverish in a short time, assuage hypertension, and also can clean the kidney.

The cucumber can be cultivated everywhere, from field to the greenhouse. But this crop is not allowed to keep continuously in the rain. Its growth needs high air humidity, the loose fertile land and get good sun rays. The cucumber will grow well from the plain to 1.300 m. dpl. The cucumber is suspected came from the area of Himalaya mountains at North India.

How to use it:
If you want to make it as a drink, you can grate it or eaten it rawly. For external use, wash cleanly the fruit and grate it. Compress the grater to cure fever, contend wound or burnt injury. The grater can also be used to contend oily skin face or irritate skin.

Collected, rearranged and translated from many sources.



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