Parts Offered
Wholesale suppliers and exporters of :-
Cucumber,
Cucumber Seeds,
Cucumber Fruit
Description
A hispidly hairy trailing or climbing annual, leaves simple, alternate,
deeply cordate, 3-5 lobed, both surfaces hairy, margin denticulate, flowers
yellow, males clustered, bearing anthers cohering, connective crusted or
elevated above the cells, females solitary, thickly covered with very
bulbous-based hairs, fruits cylindrical pepo of varying sizes and forms
seeds cream or white, test hard, smooth.
Chemical Constituents
The serial parts of the plant contain a 14 a-methyl-phytosterol, a- and ß-amyrin,
multiflorenol, isomultiflorenol, 24, methylenecy-cloartenol, cycloartenol,
triucallol. Presence of a cytokinin-binding protein, isophentenyl adenosine
trialcolhol is also reported in the cotyledons of var. 'Guntur'.
Cosmetic Uses
Cucumber is excellent for rubbing over the skin to keep it soft and white.
It is cooling, healing and soothing to an irritated skin, whether caused by
sun, or the effects of a cutaneous eruption, and Cucumber juice is in great
demand in various forms as a cooling and beautifying agent for the skin. Has
soothing effects on the skin and improves moisture retention. Cucumber soap
is used by many women, and a Cucumber wash applied to the skin after
exposure to keen winds is extremely beneficial. Emollient ointments prepared
from the Cucumber were formerly considerably employed in irritated states of
the skin, but they have been largely superseded by non-fatty cosmetics. The
most frequently used preparation of Cucumber at the present time is the
cosmetic preparation known as Cucumber Jelly, which is used as a soothing
application in roughness of the skin, etc. It consists of a jelly of
tragacanth, quince seeds or some similar mucilaginous drug, flavoured with
Cucumber juice, which imparts to the preparation a characteristic odour.
Used as a skin lotion
Soothing, cooling, toning Facial
Simmer half a peck of quince blossoms covered with water for an hour; cut 2
large cukes into very thin slices and mince; put in pan with blossoms and
boil for 5 minutes; when cold, pour into bottles. Use by smearing on face
and leave for 10 minutes before washing.
Uses
The fruits are sweet, refrigerant, haemostatic, diuretic and tonic, and are
useful in vitiated conditions of pitta, hyperdipsia, burning sensation,
thermoplegia, fever, insomnia, cephalagia, bronchitis, jaundice,
haemorrhages, strangury and general debility. The seeds are astringent,
sweet, refrigerant, nutritive, purgative, antipyretic, diuretic and tonic
and are useful in vitiated conditions of pitta, burning sensation,
constipation, intermittent fevers, strangury, renal calculus, urodynia and
general debility.
