Parts Offered
Wholesale suppliers and exporters of :-
Cucumber,
Cucumber Plant,
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 cucumber 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 including cucumber seeds and cucumber fruit is excellent for
rubbing over the skin to keep it soft and white. Cucumber fruit is cooling,
healing and soothing to an irritated skin, whether caused by sun, or the
effects of a cutaneous eruption, and Cucumber plant juice is in great demand
in various forms as a cooling and beautifying agent for the skin. Cucumber
fruit 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 plant 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irritated states of the skin, but they have been largely superseded by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 plant
and Cucumber fruits 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. Cucumber 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 of cucumber 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 cucumber 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 cucumber 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.
