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Why you should consume cucumber to purify your blood​

Cucumber is from the same family as melon, zucchini, and other squash. Cylindrical, it is generally between 15 and 30 cm long.

The nutritional benefits of cucumber:

Cucumber has a very high water content. This water, distilled, is better for your health than ordinary water.
Since its skin contains a high level of vitamin A, you can dispense with peeling your cucumbers.

Cucumber is an alkalizing food, it is an excellent source of vitamin C and A (antioxidant), folate, manganese, molybdenum, potassium, silica, and sulfur.
It also contains, but in lesser amounts, B vitamins, sodium, calcium and phosphorus.

It is common, as part of a beauty treatment, to put cucumber slices on the eyes.
Cucumber contains caffeic acid, a substance that helps fight against water retention. This is why, when applied topically, it is an interesting vegetable to relieve swollen eyes.

The therapeutic virtues of cucumber juice:

Many people ignore the health benefits of cucumber and even avoid eating it when they can.
Fresh cucumber seems tasteless to some palates, but it is very refreshing.
It is also a food of choice in your vegetable juice recipes because it produces a lot of juice.

Eat along with fried or barbecued foods, its antioxidant properties can be especially helpful.

Helps restore the acid-base balance
The mineral composition of cucumber makes it an alkaline food that can help neutralize acidity and restore acid-base balance in the body.
Cucumber juice also has soothing benefits in the treatment of peptic ulcer disease.

Helps regulate blood pressure
With its mineral content and the trace amounts of sodium it contains, cucumber juice can help regulate blood pressure.

Helps maintain connective tissue in good condition.
It is thanks to its richness in silica that cucumber participates in the proper renewal of connective tissue throughout the body: bones, muscles, cartilage, ligaments and tendons.

Has refreshing virtues
In hot, dry weather, drinking a glass of cucumber juice with celery juice is a tremendous help in lowering body temperature.

Has diuretic properties.
Cucumber juice, a diuretic, promotes the elimination of waste products from the body via the urine, but also the dissolution of kidney stones.

Helps relieve fever
As it helps to regulate body temperature, consumption of cucumber juice is indicated in case of fever.

Has anti-inflammatory properties
In traditional Chinese medicine, cucumber is considered a “cold” food, which people with rheumatism should avoid.
But it is now proven that cucumber can help eliminate uric acid that causes joint inflammation. Its consumption is also indicated for other inflammatory conditions such as arthritis, asthma and gout.

Promotes hair growth.
Cucumber juice contains silicone and sulfur, substances that stimulate hair growth.
This effect is enhanced when cucumber is combined with carrot, lettuce and spinach.

Soothes puffy eyes.
Some people wake up in the morning with swollen eyes, a phenomenon often seen in those particularly prone to water retention.
To reduce this swelling, lie down and place two slices of cucumber over your eyes for 10 minutes.

Helps fight skin conditions
It is thanks to its high content of vitamin C and antioxidants that cucumber is a frequently found ingredient in creams designed to relieve eczema, psoriasis, acne, etc.

Helps fight water retention
Thanks to its electrolyte composition, cucumber promotes good hydration of the body and thus helps fight against water retention.

Small tips:
When purchasing, choose cucumbers that are firm to the touch and have dark green skin.
Yellowish or wrinkled specimens should be avoided.