We are used to the fact that vegetables are healthy. This is considered almost an axiom, and few people think that garden gifts also carry a potential threat to health. Of course, everything is relative: for a healthy person, eating any vegetables in reasonable quantities will not cause the slightest harm. But who among us is perfectly healthy? And how to determine the very “reasonable” amount?
Even a harmless cucumber has contraindications
To avoid unpleasant surprises, it is good to know what side effects and in what cases can await us. As they say, if I knew where to fall, I would spread straws. So let’s stock up on this “straw”. Just in caseβ¦
Acquaintance with useful and harmful properties of well-known vegetables I suggest starting with cucumber. That’s what we probably can’t imagine a garden without. Fresh, salted, pickled cucumbers are welcome guests of any table. Since up to 97% of the fruit is water, many believe that this vegetable is completely harmless, and therefore you can eat it as much as your heart desires. Is it so?
The benefits of cucumber
In fact, cucumbers, when eaten regularly, have a noticeable effect on the body. True, this effect is mainly purely positive: improved digestion; removal of excess cholesterol and toxins from the body; regulation of metabolism.
Fresh cucumbersΒ recommended for dietary and medical nutritionΒ with obesity and cardiovascular diseases, chronic diseases of the kidneys and gastrointestinal tract (except for periods of exacerbation); cucumber juice is useful for liver diseases, chronic fatigue and high physical exertion; it is also used externally – to get rid of acne and freckles, narrow enlarged pores, cleanse and refresh oily skin.
Cucumber mask for normal to combination skin
Grated on a fine grater, mix the cucumber with the protein of 1 egg and mix thoroughly, whipping the mass. Apply to the face, avoiding the eye area, leave for 10-15 minutes and then rinse with water. This tool improves complexion and helps get rid of fine wrinkles.
Cucumber masks are good for any skin
Cucumber mask with blueberries for sensitive skin
Rub the cucumber on a fine grater, add the juice from several blueberries to the resulting mass, mix. The finished composition has a pale purple color. The mask is applied to the face and kept for 15-20 minutes, then washed off with warm water and rinsed with cold.
Cucumber mask for oily skin
Grate the cucumber on a fine grater, add 1 teaspoon of white clay, mix thoroughly. Apply to face and leave to dry, then rinse. Regular use of this remedy eliminates oily skin and enlarged pores.
cucumber water
Grind fresh cucumber (with skin). 4 tablespoons of vegetable mass pour 0,5 liters of boiling water, leave for 4-6 hours, strain. Used for washing with problematic skin.
Cucumber water and cucumber lotion are popular skin remedies
cucumber lotion
Grate cucumbers with skin on a grater. Take in equal proportions (by volume) cucumber mass and vodka. Pour cucumbers with vodka, leave for 2 weeks, strain. For oily skin, you can use the product immediately, for dry skin, dilute it with water in a 1: 1 ratio and add glycerin (1 tsp per 100 ml of lotion).
A mixture of cucumber and carrot juice, when consumed regularly, helps to get rid of skin problems caused by metabolic disorders. cucumber juice, mixed with lettuce juice, is useful for heart ailments. Traditional medicine recommends cucumber juice with honey for bronchitis and other diseases of the upper respiratory tract.
Cucumber juice has many health benefits
cucumber seeds have a diuretic effect, like fruits in general. Dried cucumber seed powder is considered useful in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis and tumors of the spleen. From cucumber flowers prepare a decoction for the treatment of malaria, and from a mixture of overripe fruits and dry cucumber lashes – a decoction for the treatment of liver diseases.
Many summer residents grow cucumbers. And not only in the garden, but also on the balcony or even on the windowsill. It is easy to find suitable varieties of this wonderful crop in our catalog, which presents the products of large online stores of seeds and planting material.
Harm cucumber
WhatΒ contraindicationsΒ does this vegetable have? In acute gastrointestinal diseases (gastritis, enteritis, colitis, enterocolitis), exacerbations of gastric and duodenal ulcers, it is recommended to limit the use of fresh cucumbers (and sometimes completely exclude them from your diet).
Cucumbers have a pronounced laxative effect, so they should not be used for any digestive disorders accompanied by loose stools. And vice versa – for chronic constipation, it is very useful to eat fresh cucumbers or drink cucumber juice with honey.
Pickled and pickled cucumbers should not be eaten with acute and chronic (in the acute stage) hepatitis, cholecystitis and cholelithiasis, nephritis, chronic renal failure. You should not get carried away with such an appetizer and those who suffer from cardiovascular diseases, and especially hypertensive patients (fresh cucumbers, on the contrary, will be useful to them: the potassium contained in greens has a beneficial effect on the heart muscle and helps reduce swelling).
Salted and pickled cucumbers are contraindicated in many diseases
Those who want to lose weight are advised to exclude salted and pickled cucumbers from the diet: they excite the appetite, and salt retains fluid in the body. But fresh cucumbers for weight loss are very useful. For the prevention and treatment of obesity, cucumber fasting days are practiced (in the absence of contraindications) – they help normalize metabolism, help to remove excess fluid and salts from the body.
Little Cucumber Tricks
At least believe it, at least check it, but people say that:
- cucumber inhalation helps calm the nerves
It is done like this: cucumbers are cut into slices and poured with boiling water; then you need to bend over the container (carefully!) And inhale the cucumber steam for several minutes.
- a slice of cucumber relieves bad breath
To do this, it is enough just to chew a piece of fresh cucumber for half a minute.
Cucumber turns out to be a real lifesaver
- fresh cucumber cures hangover
But unlike cucumber pickle, this βmedicineβ must be taken before the problem manifests itself. If you happen to βtake on your chestβ too much, and you understand that a headache awaits you in the morning, eat a fresh cucumber. Only not as an appetizer, but instead of a “continuation of the banquet.” Eat and sleep. Cucumber will help to neutralize toxins and restore metabolism disturbed by alcohol – as a result, you will feel noticeably better in the morning.
- cucumber solves the problem of fogged mirrors
If you wipe your bathroom mirror with a piece of cucumber, it will stop fogging up. True, the effect will not last long, but the procedure is not at all complicated – it can simply be repeated as needed.
- cucumber peel can replace eraser
If you happen to make a mistake, the skin cut from a fresh cucumber will help to carefully erase the extra letter – they assure that it can even remove old ink.
Do you use cucumbers as a medicinal, cosmetic or household product? Share your helpful recipes and tips!
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