A remarkable feature of cucumber is that its water content is as high as 96%-98%, which is the highest among fruits and vegetables. Dry mouth in summer, a cucumber can make people dry mouth, sweet and cool. It contains rich and delicate cellulose, which plays a very good role in promoting intestinal peristalsis, promoting defecation and expelling intestinal toxins. It can also lower blood fat. Cucumber can lose weight, mainly because fresh cucumber contains a substance called malonic acid, which can inhibit the conversion of sugar into fat in the human body. According to research, malonic acid has no toxic side effects. Therefore, cucumber is called a good natural diet food by medical nutritionists.
Cucumber is a very effective natural beauty product. According to experts' research, cucumber enzyme contained in fresh cucumber is a kind of biological enzyme with strong biological activity, which can effectively promote the body's metabolism, dilate skin capillaries, promote blood circulation and enhance the oxidation-reduction effect of skin, and has amazing moisturizing and beauty effects. Applying fresh cucumber juice to the skin every day can achieve the beauty effect of moistening the skin and reducing wrinkles.
Cucumber is a good medicine, in which vines, roots and seeds can be used as medicine. Chinese medicine believes that cucumber is sweet and cold in nature, and has the effects of clearing away heat and quenching thirst and dredging waterways. Can be used for treating polydipsia, pharyngalgia, red eye and scald. Fever patients are thirsty, so eating cucumber has a good effect of clearing away heat, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. For patients with sore throat and pink eye, dig out an old cucumber, fill it with mirabilite, dry it in the shade, grind it into fine powder, and blow it to the throat or eye spots. Burn or prickly heat, mashed with fresh cucumber, applied to the affected area. Cucumber pickled with honey can treat dysentery and diarrhea.
The vines, leaves and roots of cucumber are beneficial to water detoxification and can be used to treat diseases such as yellow sores, dysentery and diarrhea.
Cucumber has many functions, and cucumber beauty can be said to be a well-known secret. Cucumber, also known as cucumber and king melon, is a kind of melon vegetable that can be blindly used for beauty. Cucumber contains 96%-98% water, which is not only crisp, tender and fragrant, but also delicious and nutritious. Cucumber contains a variety of sugars (glucose, rhamnose, galactose, mannose, xylose and fructose) necessary for human growth and life activities, more vitamins (vitamins C, A, B2 and E), rich potassium salts, sugars, calcium, phosphorus, iron and rutin, as well as a variety of free amino acids, fine cellulose and chlorogenic acid. The content of vitamin C is five times higher than that of watermelon. It also contains soft and delicate cellulose, which can promote the excretion of intestinal corrupt substances and reduce cholesterol. Fresh cucumber also contains malonic acid, which can inhibit the conversion of sugar into fat. Long-term consumption is good for restraining obesity, so cucumber is one of the indispensable foods for human health and beauty. Cucumber enzyme of fresh cucumber is a kind of biological enzyme with strong activity, which can effectively promote human metabolism, promote blood circulation and achieve the purpose of skin care and beauty.
Cucumber is rich in vitamins, which can provide sufficient nutrition for skin and muscles, effectively resist skin aging, reduce wrinkles and prevent cheilitis and angular stomatitis. Cucumber contains fine cellulose, which can reduce the content of cholesterol and triglyceride in blood, promote the excretion of rotten food in intestine, improve the metabolism of human body, and have an indirect effect on the beauty of skin and hair. Fresh cucumber contains malonic acid, which can effectively inhibit the conversion of sugar into fat. Therefore, eating cucumbers regularly can help you lose weight. Rubbing the skin with fresh cucumber or cucumber juice can stretch and delay facial wrinkles, treat facial dark spots, clean and protect the skin. This kind of cucumber beauty has been popular in some foreign countries for a long time, and many women in China are using it at present. Cucumber is called "beauty agent in the kitchen".
Cucumber can be eaten in many ways, both raw and cooked. Mixing, frying, burning, frying, sliding, brewing, pickling, pickling, making soup and so on are all good. Representative dishes include garlic cucumber, preserved egg cucumber, cucumber slice soup, pickled cucumber, fermented cucumber, vinegar cucumber, etc. You can choose from them.
Peel the cucumber, put it into a juicer to juice, boil an egg, mix the egg white with the cucumber juice, add 2 drops of white vinegar, mix well, apply it to your eyes, and then close your eyes 10 minute. After cleaning, gently massage the skin around the eyes with your hands, but don't use force, because the skin around the eyes is particularly fragile.
As we all know, cucumber is a good beauty product. How to save time and effort with cucumber beauty? Teach you a trick.
Soak cucumber in water for a while to remove residual pesticides. Slice the cucumber with a peeling knife for peeling potatoes, and then stick the cucumber slices on your face. Cucumber slices are so thin that they won't fall on your face. You can do housework with sliced cucumber. As long as you don't do too much exercise, it won't fall off.
Slice a fresh cucumber, first carefully wipe it on your face with a hot towel, and then stick the cucumber one by one on your back, face, nose and other parts that are difficult to stick. You can cut the cucumber in half and stick it on it. Keep 10 minutes or so, and finally wipe your face with a hot towel. Cucumber beauty treatment should be done 1 time every day, which can make the skin soft and moist, avoid dirt accumulation in pores, make the skin look brand-new, and achieve the effect of cleaning and beautifying the skin.
If you have enough time, you can do housework without cucumber slices. You can also use a peeling knife to cut the cucumber into long slices, that is, peel the cucumber vertically. The slice cut out in this way is very long, just stick it on your face horizontally, and the effect will be better, but it will be more wasteful than cutting it into small discs horizontally.
If you can insist on it often, the effect is obvious, and it is really the kind with tender skin.
Cucumber beauty method
Cucumber is warm and dehumidified, which can converge and eliminate skin wrinkles, especially suitable for people with darker skin. Squeeze cucumber (skin, meat and seeds) into juice, rub it on your face with cotton ball dipped in juice, and rub it repeatedly at wrinkles. Mash cucumber to get juice, add 65,438+0 egg white, mix together, wipe your face after washing, and lie still for 20 minutes (this method is suitable for wet skin).
First, eat raw cucumber beauty: mix cucumber with vermicelli, jellyfish, noodles, shredded belly and shredded chicken, or eat the whole cucumber as fruit.
Second, cucumber juice: cucumber juice has the function of stretching wrinkles and protecting the skin, and is a commonly used juice in cosmetic surgery. You can drink it or wipe it directly. If there are many wrinkles, you can use it once a day and get quick results.
3. Slice the cucumber, stick it on your face before going to bed, and take it off the next morning. You will find that your skin is smoother and more moist than yesterday.
4. Cucumber mask: Cucumber and other materials can be made into various masks.
Three methods of self-made cucumber mask
First, materials: 2 cucumbers, egg white 1, a little flour.
Methods: 1. The cucumber was broken by the blender. 2. Mix egg white and cucumber juice. 3. Slowly add flour to make a paste.
Second, cucumbers are thicker.
Operation: Wash the cucumber, peel it, cut it obliquely with a fruit knife, and cut it into thin slices, about1mm. After slicing, stick the cucumber slices on your face or even your neck in front of the mirror (it is really yellow in front of the mirror, hehe). After sticking, only the nostrils are exposed on the face. (Unlike the finished mask, the finished mask is not attached to the eyelid because of the skin of the eyelid.
Third, materials: a cucumber, half a tablespoon of lemon juice, a tablespoon of hazelnut, and an egg white (stirred into a paste with a blender).
Practice: Peel the cucumber first, and then put it into the food blender. Pour the cucumber juice into a filter tank or strainer, and put the filtered filtrate into a bowl. Then, add lemon juice and hazelnut to the filtrate, stir well, and gently pour the stirred protein into it. Finally, apply it evenly on the whole face. Keep it at15 ~ 25min and rinse it with warm water.
Step 1: Crush the fresh cucumber with a fruit juicer (juicer can also be super cheap, the supermarket only sells 7, 8 yuan, squeezed by hand, which is relatively small and easy to clean, and can be used for beauty).
Step 2: Add proper amount of flour or pearl powder to the squeezed cucumber. This won't run down. Flour or pearl powder contains a lot of vitamins.
Step 3: Wrap the hair (otherwise, the mask containing flour can't be washed off when it sticks to the hair, and pearl powder will be better).
Step 4: Apply the mask to your face. Evenly distributed.
Step 5: Wrap your face with plastic wrap and take your eyes, nose and mouth out for air.
Step 6: 10~ 15 minutes later, uncover the plastic wrap and wash your face.
Recipe recommendation: garlic cucumber
Ingredients: cucumber 350g
Seasoning: garlic 15g, salt 12g, monosodium glutamate 10g, sugar 4g, onion oil 45g, sesame oil 8g and rice wine 5g;
Method: Peel the cucumber, cut it into even prismatic blocks, wash it, add the above seasonings and mix well.
Features: crisp and refreshing.
Self-made cucumber beauty milk
Self-made cucumber beauty milk cucumber not only has a good weight loss effect, but also is good for the skin. It is also a good product for beauty, which is perfectly combined with the moisturizing and whitening effect of milk.
Cucumber Beauty Milk: Cucumber is rich in vitamin B, which is indispensable for the formation of protein in skin and hair. It can also prevent skin dryness, roughness, inflammation and scaling, and has excellent cosmetic effect.
The preparation method is: peeling fresh cucumber, slicing or shredding, soaking in hot milk at the ratio of 1: 10, filtering out cucumber slices or shredding after the milk is cooled, thus obtaining cucumber beauty milk, which can be used for wiping face once in the morning and once in the evening.
Suggestion: It is very convenient to make and put it in the refrigerator!
Beauty and treatment are suitable.
Cucumber, also known as cucumber, is a fruit of Cucurbitaceae, which is cultivated all over the country and can be picked all year round. Generally, people only cook cooked food as melons and vegetables, but they don't know that it contains many beneficial ingredients, such as xylose, rice lactose, mannose, amino acids, vitamins G and C, etc. Its taste is sweet and cool, and it has the function of clearing away heat, promoting diuresis and detoxifying. Cucumber is indispensable for its fruit, vegetable and medicinal value.
Cucumber beauty external use:
1, peeled and sliced cucumber, and put it on the face to help whiten it.
2, cucumber peeled and sliced, add a little lemon juice, use flour to make a thick paste, apply it to the face, you can remove small wrinkles.
3. Slice cucumber and tomato and stick them on cheeks, forehead and sides of nose alternately, and change them every 10 minute/time, which can make skin smooth, moist and elastic.
Cucumber is treated both inside and outside;
1, tender cucumber and honey should be eaten together. Children with indigestion can try it.
2. Fresh cucumber slices mixed with refined salt, drained, mashed garlic (about 1: 20 relative to cucumber), soy sauce, monosodium glutamate, Chili oil and sesame oil mixed with cucumber to make flavor juice can inhibit sugar from transforming into fat, which is good for treating nutritional obesity.
3. Cucumber is dried for a long time.
Take decoction, strengthen spleen and stop diarrhea, and treat chronic enteritis.
4, a cucumber cut open, boiled in vinegar and water, all rotten, taken on an empty stomach, can be used as an adjuvant treatment of pyelonephritis or chronic pyelonephritis.
5, hot summer, eat a few cucumbers raw every day, its role of clearing heat and diuresis can prevent heatstroke.
6, the old cucumber peeled, mirabilite wrapped in hanging shade. Glauber's salt is exposed outside the cucumber, which becomes cucumber paste.
(1) Treating chronic pharyngitis by blowing throat. (2) Eye-catching treatment of acute ligament union. (3) Brushing can cure fire and water burns.
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But cucumber is cold, so it is not suitable for patients with spleen and stomach weakness, chronic bronchitis, gastrointestinal ulcer, colitis and so on. , especially the elderly and children. Add other flavoring foods beneficial to the spleen and stomach and fry them into dishes to eat.