Thread by @aayurarogyam

** Health Benefits of Cucumber : A must vegetable of modern age **

- A Nutritional power house and untold super food for our modern eating habits

- This is classified as hydrated vegetable and major contents of this is nutritious water with many Vitamins

- This is a prime member of gourd family where this is medicinal from it's flowers , seeds, skin and the fruit

-Cucumber consists of vitamins (K, C, A), magnesium, silica, potassium, anti-inflammatory substances, and 96 percent of water

- Hydration and consuming enough water is key for proper metabolism and health as a whole

- Age old days drinking water was not easily accessible, so they consumed more hydrated vegetable to maintain water balance in their body

In terms of benefits

- Promotes hydration and balance your water needs

- This is the Rationale this is must in summer as we get easily dehydrated due to high climatic temperature

- Good source of dietary fibres beneficial to people with

- Blood pressure ailments
- Diabetic conditions

Be it diabetes or blood pressure these are caused due to imbalance of water constituents in your body

- Promotes weight loss especially for those who are looking for tummy reduction

Cucumber juice is a part diet for most of armed forces and athletes as they are more prone to dehydration and need to maintain slim physique

- Natural analgesic /pain reliever

-Cucumber seed oil is used in most of the pain reliever we use

-helps to maintain your bone health as it contains Vitamin K and calcium..

- must for arthritic patients as this is a pain reliever and bone supplement

It's Anti inflammatory / Anti cancer

- Cucumber consists of phytochemical compound called
cucurbitacin B, proven medicine to suppress the growth of cancerous cells in your body

- other phytochemical properties of Cucumber helps in faster wound healing especially the diabetics

It's a excellent beauty supplement

- Nourishes your growth of hair
- Ensures a blemish free skin
- Enhances your skin tone
- Removes the dark circles under eyes
- Cools your optic nerves aiding clear vision

- It magnesium constituent helps to cure even migraine headache

In certain parts of India , it was a practice to apply cucumber leaves extract juice as a paste overhead to cure migraine headache

It aids smooth liver function and reduces the bad breath caused due to acidic interactions in stomach

Food digestion is dependent on mastigation & good bacteria present in our mouth

Saliva secretion is key for sustainability of the good mouth bacteria cucumber helps this

I can go on and on about cucumber on our texts and experience will plan another part later

Our ancestors were smart enough to make this a must vegetable of our meal

In summary, this is a wonderful vegetable and God's gift for all the modern lifestyle disorder such as

- Diabetes
- Blood pressure
- Kidney stones
- Liver function
- Obesity
- Blemished skin /Beauty care
-Migraine headache
- Strained Vision

- Given the sitting nature of job and lack of intake of water to millennial

Atleast this vegetable salad can help you to compensate the shortfall of water intake there by preventing you from diseases