Cucumber is cool, from the point of view of Chinese medicine and nutrition, cucumber is to reduce the fire.
Fire, fire are folk slang, are hot evidence of traditional Chinese medicine category, which is equivalent to the “internal heat”, fire is equivalent to “remove internal heat”, fire, the clinical manifestations of light and heavy, the common symptoms are: dry mouth and tongue, eyes red, red, dry stools, Yellow urine, bad breath and other symptoms.
Nutrition in Traditional Chinese Medicine” records: food has “cold, cool, warm, hot” four sexes, of which cold and cool foods usually have heat, diarrhea, cool blood, detoxification, nourishing Yin, etc., and the cucumber is cool, sweet, and have heat, detoxification, diuresis, can get rid of the spleen, stomach and lungs within the heat, from this point of view, the cucumber is to reduce the fire.
Raw food, fried food, cold cucumber, on the heat caused by thirst, body edema, damp-heat jaundice, urination short red (urine volume, color dark yellow), acne and other diseases have a certain auxiliary improvement effect, spleen and stomach cold or after the disease of the body weak people should be used with caution.
Although cucumber has a certain effect, but is not a drug, not a substitute for medication to cure the disease, the fire usually drink more water, avoid eating stimulating food, if the fire symptoms are more serious, you need to go to the hospital in a timely manner for treatment.