When in hot air, it would be fresh by drinking fresh drinks. Or eating fresh fruits. Such as cucumbers salad. But, do you know, besides fresh the cucumbers also have many benefits?
Cucumber plants probably derived from the Himalayas in northern India. Seasonal plants, creeping or vines, haired rough, trunked wet, length 0.5-2.5 m. This plant has tendrils spiral-shaped branches that come out on the side of the petiole. Single leaf, layout take turns, long-stemmed, wide oval shape, bertaju 3-7, with heart shaped base, pointed tip, serrated edge. The cucumber plants have characteristics such as length of 7-18 cm, 7-15 cm wide, and the color green. There are male flowers are yellowish-white, and the female flowers are shaped like trumpets. Long round fruit, grown depends, white waxy green color, after old the colour becomes dirty yellow, 10-30 cm long, base has nodule, contains a lot of liquid. Seeds many, the shape tapering flat, dirty white color. Young leaves and stalks can be eaten raw as a salad, boiled, steamed, or cooked. Can also be pickled or eaten with a salad. Many types of cucumbers that existing in markets, such as the usual cucumbers, krai cucumbers, wuku cucumbers, poan cucumbers, and watang cucumbers.
Cucumber cultivated everywhere, both in the fields, home page, or in a greenhouse. These plants are not resistant to continuous rain. Its growth requires high humidity, fertile soil that is flabby and gets full sun with good drainage. Cucumbers should be propagated to the loft and grown both in the lowlands up to 1300 m dpl.
One fresh cucumber fruits generally contain 0.65% protein, 0.1% fat and 2.2% carbohydrate. Additionally cucumber also contains other beneficial substances, such as calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, and vitamin C.
Cucumber containing silicon, fluorine, and potassium, also low in calories, so as can help stimulate the kidneys to remove waste metabolic and deposits of fat in the body. Aside from being a kidney cleanser, cucumber has many other benefits. Cucumber seeds are known to contain toxic of alkaloids kind hipoxanti to treat intestinal worms. Cucumber seeds are also believed to relieve sore throat, cause cough followed by loss of voice. Cucumbers can also be used to compress when you or your child has fever. Needless to add ice, because the cucumber has given the cold needed to cool the body heat due to fever.
Fresh cucumber juice and useful for health, it can also treat the skin of scabies. No wonder if the cucumber is often used as a face mask, because in addition to as moisturizing, cucumber helps the skin to be smooth and seamless.
One fresh cucumber fruits generally contain 0.65% protein, 0.1% fat and 2.2% carbohydrate. Additionally cucumber also contains other beneficial substances, such as calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, and vitamin C.
Cucumber containing silicon, fluorine, and potassium, also low in calories, so as can help stimulate the kidneys to remove waste metabolic and deposits of fat in the body. Aside from being a kidney cleanser, cucumber has many other benefits. Cucumber seeds are known to contain toxic of alkaloids kind hipoxanti to treat intestinal worms. Cucumber seeds are also believed to relieve sore throat, cause cough followed by loss of voice. Cucumbers can also be used to compress when you or your child has fever. Needless to add ice, because the cucumber has given the cold needed to cool the body heat due to fever.
Fresh cucumber juice and useful for health, it can also treat the skin of scabies. No wonder if the cucumber is often used as a face mask, because in addition to as moisturizing, cucumber helps the skin to be smooth and seamless.
One fresh cucumber fruits generally contain 0.65% protein, 0.1% fat and 2.2% carbohydrate. Additionally cucumber also contains other beneficial substances, such as calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, and vitamin C.
Cucumber containing silicon, fluorine, and potassium, also low in calories, so as can help stimulate the kidneys to remove waste metabolic and deposits of fat in the body. Aside from being a kidney cleanser, cucumber has many other benefits. Cucumber seeds are known to contain toxic of alkaloids kind hipoxanti to treat intestinal worms. Cucumber seeds are also believed to relieve sore throat, cause cough followed by loss of voice. Cucumbers can also be used to compress when you or your child has fever. Needless to add ice, because the cucumber has given the cold needed to cool the body heat due to fever.
Fresh cucumber juice and useful for health, it can also treat the skin of scabies. No wonder if the cucumber is often used as a face mask, because in addition to as moisturizing, cucumber helps the skin to be smooth and seamless.
Here are some tips and benefits of cucumbers for health:
- For the treatment of sore throat. If you suffer from pain in the throat which causes difficulty talking (cough) can be treated with cucumber seeds. The trick, a bit of cucumber seeds mixed with a little salt and gargled several times a day. The treatment is believed to restore the lost voices due to the pain.
- Reducing high blood pressure. Two fresh cucumbers washed and shredded. Results parutannya squeezed and filtered, then drink as well. Do it 2-3 times a day.
- Treating thrush. Eating raw cucumber fruit as a snack, do regularly every day.
- Addressing the puffiness around the eyes. Puffy eyes due to sleep too late or eye fatigue due to working at the computer for too long. The trick, thin slices of cucumber and placed in both eyes, done while lying down for 15 minutes. Then rinse.
- Treating the dizziness disease sustainable. This disease may lose weight can be overcome by consuming raw or cooked cucumbers. Besides, cucumber can also be used to treat dysentery disease.
Well, that's some of the benefits of cucumber for the health of our bodies. Because cucumber easily be encountered anywhere, it is good if we can consume it daily and use it for the health of our bodies.