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Cucumber is very useful and it is a favourite vegetable during hot season. This vegetable can help to keep our body cool it also prevents quenches thirst, heat stroke and sunstroke. This vegetable is from India but now can be found in most continent. Cucumber is used as digestive aid. It has a purifying effect and they make the skin looks better. This vegetable is one of the best food for our body because it has a lot of vitamins.
Medicine :
- If there is an insect bite, cucumber slices can be used to draw out the poison.
- When we have tired and puffy eyes, slices or poultice of crushed cucumber can be used.
- This vegetable is good for large intestine, stomach, spleen and it helps to promote urination.
- Cucumber is good for general health of our skin and also helps to prevent acne. It is also very effective as blood cleanser.
- For prevention of kidney stone, one should take cucumber with its peel daily.
- Cucumber can help to rehydrate the body as they contain 95% water and it also helps to eliminate toxins.
- By taking cucumber daily, it helps to promote hair growth because it has silicon and sulfur.
- Cucumber contains secoisolariciresinol, pinoresinol and lariciresinol which help to reduce several cancer types such as prostate cancer, uterine cancer, ovarian cancer, and breast cancer.
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