Cucumber Fruit property

cucumber or Cucumis sativus L.
Familia: Cucurbitaceae

Mentimun or cucumber to cultivation everywhere, both in the field, the home page or in the greenhouse. This plant is not resistant to rain again. Growth requires a high air humidity, fertile soil that gets loose and full sun with good drainage. Cucumber should creeping to the loft and both grow from low to 1300 m dpl. This plant is suspected of originating in the Himalaya mountain region of North India. Season plant, creep or spread, blond rough, wet trunked, the length 0,5-2,5 m.

This plant has spiraling branches involute out on the leaf stalk. Single leaf, take location, bertangkai length, egg width rounded shapes, bertaju 3-7, with the base of the heart-shaped, spire, serrated edge. 7-18 cm long, 7-15 cm wide, the color green. Flowers have a cream-colored male, and female flowers shaped like a trumpet. Long rounded fruit, grow depends, berlilin green color is white, after the old dirty yellow, length 10 - 30 cm, the base berbintil, many contain liquids. seed many, meruncingi flat oval shape, dirty white color. Young leaves and stalk can be eaten as raw or steamed lalab. Fruit can be eaten raw, boiled, steamed or vegetable. Can also be eaten with pickle or rujak. Many types of cucumber is in the market, such as regular cucumber, cucumber krai, wuku cucumber, cucumber and gherkin poan Watang. With seed multiplication.

Local name:
Bonteng, katimun, cucumber, temon, antemon, boyuk (Java); Dimu, timu, kadingir, kariri, karere, daka, Koto (Sumatra); Kimuni, ancimun, cimen, ansimun, melike, laiseu (Sumatra); Betiak, betik , cucumber (Kalimantan), Suai, bojo (Sulawesi);

Farmakologis effects: Fruit: fresher bodies, Microwave, peluruh urine, refine and refine skin. Leaf: stimulant vomiting.

Gynecology Chemistry: seeds: Oil fat, karoten. Leaf: Kukurbitasin C, stigmasterol. Fruits also contain a little saponin, enzym digestion, glutathione, protein, fat, carbohydrate, vitamins B and C.

For the use of medicine:

1. High blood:
2 pieces of fresh cucumber washed clean shredded ago. Results parutannya diperas and strained, and drunk all at once. Perform 2-3 times a day.

2. ulcer in the mouth:
Each day eat the fruit of cucumber fruit 9. Do routinely.

4. Clearing the kidney:
Cucumber shredded fresh washed ago. Results parutannya to press and filtered. Drink water little by little until the stomach to accept the cucumber liquid.

5. Fever:
Cucumber sufficient washed clean, and then shredded. Results parutannya placed on the stomach.

6. Whelk:
Fruit washed ago sliced cucumber-slices. Sliced cucumber and be rubbed on the scrub-pimpled skin. Make every day.

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