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

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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

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


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

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

Main Preparations used: