The efficacy, function and taboo of cucumber are endowed with great significance in nutrition. This medicinal material can't claim to cure all diseases, and nothing can cure all diseases. People with cold body should eat as little as possible. The efficacy, function and taboo of cucumber teach you to keep healthy correctly.

Efficacy, function and taboo of cucumber 1 "Cucumber is rich in vitamin C, carotene and potassium, and also contains ingredients that can inhibit the proliferation of cancer cells, so cucumber is a good vegetable for beauty. Regular consumption of cucumber can also reduce wrinkles and prevent cheilitis and angular stomatitis. Cucumber can play a role in losing weight, and it can prevent obesity. Cucumber is a good product to lose weight. In addition, cucumber can also speed up metabolism. Cucumber is fragrant and juicy, rich in protein and potassium salt. Can promote blood metabolism. At the same time, eating cucumber regularly can improve the immune function of human body. Cucumber has the function of lowering blood sugar, which is very helpful for diabetic patients. Alanine and arginine contained in cucumber can play a defensive role in liver, especially in patients with alcoholic hepatitis. Although cucumber is very good, there are also many taboos. For example, people with cold body must eat less, and people with respiratory diseases should eat less. Cucumber should not be added with alkali or high-heat staple food. Cucumber should not be eaten with vegetables with high vitamin C content. "

Efficacy, function and taboo of two sources of cucumber

Cucumber (Cucumissativus) is an annual climbing herb of Cucurbitaceae, and its edible part is its fruit. Cucumber is also called cucumber, cucumber, cucumber, cucumber, cucumber, cucumber, cucumber, cucumber, cucumber. Cucumber can be divided into three types according to the variety shape: thorn cucumber, whip cucumber and autumn cucumber. The quality of thorn cucumber is the best, which is rod-shaped, with prominent longitudinal edges and fruit tumors on the surface. Melon has a slightly thinner handle, fewer seeds and crisp meat, which is best eaten raw. Whip cucumber is long rod-shaped and whip-shaped, with no edges and protrusions on the surface, no prickly hair, smooth, light green skin, yellow top, thin skin, big meat, soft meat and poor quality. It can be eaten raw or cooked. Autumn cucumber is rod-shaped, with small edges and bristles on the surface, thick meat, crisp meat, high water content and good quality, which can be eaten raw or cooked.

According to legend, cucumber was brought back to China by Zhang Qian from the Western Regions, hence its name. According to the Tang Dynasty's Materia Medica, in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, when the tax collector was Queen Zhao, he was dissatisfied with the word "Hu" and changed his name to cucumber, now called cucumber. Now it is planted all over the country except in the alpine region.

Biological composition

According to the measurement, every 65438 000g edible cucumber contains 65438 07 kcal of heat energy, 95g of water, 0.7g of protein, 0.2g of fat, 65438 0.6g of carbohydrate, 0.5g of dietary fiber, calcium, phosphorus, iron, malonic acid and vitamins A, C and E, etc. It also contains 2.6- nonadienol and bitter cucurbitacins A, B, C, D, etc.

Action efficacy

1, sexual and taste orientation

Cucumber, sweet and cold; Stomach and small intestine meridians.

2. Medical classics

Luchuan herbal medicine: "clearing away heat and quenching thirst, benefiting waterways, detoxifying and diminishing inflammation, benefiting the stomach."

3. TCM syndrome differentiation

Cucumber is cool and sweet, and has the functions of clearing away heat, promoting diuresis and detoxicating. It is used as an auxiliary dietotherapy for treating fever, polydipsia, sore throat, red eyes and dysuria.

4. Modern research

Cucumber contains protein, fat, carbohydrate, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, iron, malonic acid, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E and other ingredients, and the head contains carotene A, which has unique effects on chest heat and diuresis, and also has obvious effects on dehumidification, laxative and analgesia. Propionic acid can inhibit the conversion of carbohydrates into fat, so it is beneficial to obese and hypertensive patients. Carotene C can fight cancer, and cucumber juice has a cosmetic effect. Cucumber is a low-calorie food, which contains more minerals, pectin and a small amount of vitamins, and also contains delicate fine cellulose, which can promote the excretion of rotten food in the intestine and lower cholesterol. Cucumber acid can promote human metabolism and excrete toxins; The content of vitamin C is five times higher than that of watermelon, which can whiten skin, maintain skin elasticity and inhibit the formation of melanin. Eating cucumber helps to resolve inflammation. Alanine, arginine and glutamine contained in cucumber have a certain auxiliary therapeutic effect on patients with liver diseases, especially those with alcoholic cirrhosis, and can prevent and treat alcoholism. Glucoside and fructose contained in cucumber do not participate in the usual sugar metabolism, so diabetic patients use cucumber instead of starch food to satisfy their hunger, and their blood sugar will not increase or even decrease. The cellulose in cucumber can promote the removal of spoilage substances in human intestine and reduce cholesterol, and can strengthen the body. Cucumber contains vitamin B, which is beneficial to improve the function of brain and nervous system, soothe the nerves and help treat insomnia.

Dietary precautions and taboo people

(1) should not be eaten with pepper, spinach and celery, which will destroy vitamin C.

(2) It should not be eaten with peanuts, causing diarrhea.

(3) It is not advisable to eat too much, it is easy to accumulate heat and produce temperature, and children are prone to scabies.

(4) Patients with scabies, beriberi and edema should eat carefully to avoid aggravating the disease.

(5) People with cold stomach and diarrhea should eat less cucumbers to prevent enteritis and dysentery from getting worse.

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Kangxi and Cucumber

According to legend, Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty was very curious and often put on ordinary people's clothes to visit privately. In the early summer of one year, he saw a boy of fifteen or sixteen in the street, barefooted without a hat, carrying a basket of green cucumbers with flowers on the top and thorns on his body. Kangxi felt thirsty and asked the child, "How many cucumbers are there?" When the child saw that it was an old man, he replied, "This cucumber is sold by the shopkeeper, regardless of the root. It was sold by the owner. " Kangxi felt in his pocket and ran out of money, so he had to turn around and leave. But the more thirsty my mouth is, the more I turn around. The child saw it and asked, "Grandpa, do you want to eat cucumber?" Kangxi said against his will, "Oh, no, just look around. This cucumber is delicious! " "The child took out a cucumber from the basket and handed it to Kangxi, saying," This cucumber quenches its thirst by itself. I won't eat it. Give it to your dad. "Kangxi also accepted, eat sweet and happy. Kangxi fell in love with the child, so he asked the child's name, age and family situation, wanted to recognize him as an adopted son, and took him to Beijing to study. The child replied that he needed to discuss with his mother. The next day, the child said that his mother's relatives had not come back and gave Kangxi cucumbers for several days. On the seventh day, Kangxi was pleasantly surprised to find that his old problem of lower limb edema, which he had been entangled in for many years, was cured without treatment. On the eighth day, the child returned to Kangxi and said that his mother agreed to go to Beijing to study and do things, but there was no travel expenses. Kangxi promised to put it on the mat first, and then this child named Wang Xiao followed the Crown Princes to learn martial arts and practice martial arts until he became a senior minister of the Ministry.