Cucumis, Cucumber

Maghz e Tukhm e Khiyar (Unani)
Della Materia Medicinale, Andrea Valuassori, 1562
Krauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578
Regular and Long Cucumber
New Kreuterbuch, Matthiolus, 1563

Herbarium Blackwellianum, 1750

Botanical name:
Cucumis sativus
Several varieties were known including Regular and Long

Parts used:
Seed kernel

Temperature & Taste:
Cool, moist. Sweet

Uses:
1. One of the 4 Greater Cold Seeds
-see our article on the Greater Cold Seeds

2. Clears Damp-Heat, promotes Urine:
-strangury, dysuria, burning urine
-helps with Stones

3. Clears Heat and Choler (Bile):
-heat of the body; Fever
-Heat of the Blood
-excess Bile (Liver heat)

4. Clears Phlegm-Heat, Stops Cough:
-heat or Hot-phlegm of the Lungs, stops Cough
-good for Pleurisy


Dose:
Decoction: 10–30 grams
Powder: 1–4 grams

Main Combinations:
1. With the other Cold seeds to clear Heat of Bile or Blood, for Fever, and to support the Yin.

Major Formulas:
Decoction of Fruit
Syrup Against Consumption
Syrup of Marshmallow (Fernel)
Bolus of Seeds (Unani)
Cooling Pearl Powder (Diamargariton Frigidum) (Nicholas)
Powder for Bladder Abscess of Alexander Benedictus
Powder for Hardness of the Kidneys (Nicolas)
Powder for the Lungs (Wirtzung)
Powder for Palpitation from Heat
Powder of Haly (Haly)
Powder of Optimal Nutrition (Nicholas)
Powder of Three Sandalwoods (Diatrisantalum) (Mesue)
Sugar Penid (Diapenidon Frigidum) (Nichoals)
Tragacanth Cooling Powder (Diatragacanth Frigidum) (Nicholas)
Troches for Abscess and Ulcer of the Kidneys
Troches of Camphor (Nicholas)
Troches of Gordon (Trochisci Gordonii)
Troches of Sandalwoods (Trochisci Santalon) (Mesue)
Troches of Winter Cherry (Unani)
Troches of Winter Cherry (Trochisci Alkekengi) (Mesue)
Pills for Stoppage of Urine
Abbots Confect of Rose (Diarrhodon Abbatis) (Nicholas)
Electuary for Stones (Azaricon)
Electuary of Poppy (Diapapaver) (Mesue)
Electuary of Seeds
Restorative Electuary (Antidotus Analeptica) (Nicholas)

Cautions:
1. Not suitable for Cold and Weak Digestion.

Main Preparations used: