Chinese food recipes cucumber

Chinese food recipes cucumber

Chinese food recipes cucumber

Chinese food recipes cucumber

The nature of cucumber is fresh, with a mild flavor and slightly toxic, its tropisms meridians are the lungs, stomach, and large intestine. Cucumber consumption can cool the heat, promote bowel astringent to treat diarrhea, poisoning and eliminate swelling, secrete saliva and calm thirst. It deals mainly fever, dysphoria, thirst, throat pain, diseases of the eye of the wind and heat, jaundice due to moisture, heat, and dysuria, etc.

Water-rich, well endowed with minerals (particularly potassium), cucumber is a very refreshing vegetable and particularly light in calories: 10 kcal (42 kJ) per 100 g. It provides a wide range of vitamins (all the vitamins of group B, vitamin C at the rate of 8 mg per 100 g, and a bit of provitamin A and vitamin E)

Its fibers are better tolerated if we “disgorge” cucumber before consumption, or just if chewed carefully.

Cucumber is usually consumed raw, but it is very tasty served cooked, as a side dish. For this, we detail into small dice, which are steamed or that one is steaming gently in a little fat.

Credited with cucumber juice fasting absorbed depurative properties and appetizing.

In dermatology, cucumber is considered softening, and is traditionally used (in the form of poultice or lotion) to fight against redness, sores and itching.

Depending on the variety, cucumber contains more or less bitter aromatic substances (concentrated in the part near the peduncle). Varietal selections aim to produce little bitter cucumber, thin flesh, tender and crisp, and with few plants seeds.

At maturity, cucumber weighs between 350 and 700 g. It is rather small picked early in the season (early varieties), and a little larger in peak season. But we must anyway avoid too large cucumber, whose flesh becomes firm, tasteless, and peppered with enormous seeds, prefer to cook one.

Chinese food cucumber for your natural health benefits:

Cucumber Nature is fresh, with a mild flavor and slightly toxic, its tropisms meridians are the lungs, stomach, and large intestine. Cucumber consumption can cool the heat, promote bowel astringent to treat diarrhea, poisoning and eliminate swelling, secrete saliva and calm thirst. It deals mainly fever, dysphoria, thirst, throat pain, diseases of the eye of the wind and heat, jaundice due to moisture, heat, and dysuria, etc.

1. The antitumor effect: cucumber contains cucurbitacine C can improve immune function of the body to achieve the purpose of the anti-tumor. In addition, this substance can also treat chronic hepatitis and persistent hepatitis, it can prolong survival of patients with primary liver cancer.

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