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    Cucumber contains many healthy nutrients and antioxidants that can potentially cure or prevent diseases. It is a fruit that is 95% water and contains electrolytes to regulate pH levels and repair tissues. Cucumber is also high in fiber and can prevent constipation while helping to avoid dehydration. It contains small amounts of vitamins like Vitamin K and Vitamin A that support immune function, bone health, and cell growth. Cucumber also contains cucurbitacin, which inhibits cancer cell growth and triggers cell death, and has been used in traditional medicine for its anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial properties. Studies show cucumber may help control water and salt balance and act as a diuretic similar to furosemide.

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    Cucumber contains many healthy nutrients and antioxidants that can potentially cure or prevent diseases. It is a fruit that is 95% water and contains electrolytes to regulate pH levels and repair tissues. Cucumber is also high in fiber and can prevent constipation while helping to avoid dehydration. It contains small amounts of vitamins like Vitamin K and Vitamin A that support immune function, bone health, and cell growth. Cucumber also contains cucurbitacin, which inhibits cancer cell growth and triggers cell death, and has been used in traditional medicine for its anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial properties. Studies show cucumber may help control water and salt balance and act as a diuretic similar to furosemide.

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    Cucumber contains many healthy nutrients and antioxidants that can potentially cure or prevent diseases. It is a fruit that is 95% water and contains electrolytes to regulate pH levels and repair tissues. Cucumber is also high in fiber and can prevent constipation while helping to avoid dehydration. It contains small amounts of vitamins like Vitamin K and Vitamin A that support immune function, bone health, and cell growth. Cucumber also contains cucurbitacin, which inhibits cancer cell growth and triggers cell death, and has been used in traditional medicine for its anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial properties. Studies show cucumber may help control water and salt balance and act as a diuretic similar to furosemide.

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    Benefits of Cucumber

    Cucumber contains a lot of healthy nutrients as well as certain plant chemicals and antioxidants that might be
    used to cure or even prevent various diseases. Cucumber is a fruit, despite being frequently mistaken for a
    vegetable and fall into the category of the same family from pumpkins and melons, Cucurbitaceae (Sharma et
    al., 2020).

    Cucumber has the highest percentage of uptake in water, means that it contains electrolytes that can regulate
    body pH level and even repairing the damaged tissue. Cucumber are also one of an alternative food that can
    prevent constipation due to rich in fiber. They can aid in avoid dehydration during hot conditions or vigorous
    exercise. A serving of cucumber that is one half of a cup had at least 8 calories with sufficient number of
    vitamins and 95% water (Link, 2017). Sengupta (2020) suggests that since water constitutes 95% of a
    cucumber, it is inequitable to have water while also diluting these vital minerals, however to achieve
    optimum nutritional absorption, it is advisable to abstain of drinking water before taking raw product. In
    addition, there are small amount of vitamins in cucumber such as Vitamin K and Vitamin A that helps people
    with blood clotting, immune system, supervision, calcium absorption and bone repairing. According to United
    States Department of Agriculture, 142 g (cup) of unpeeled, raw cucumber provides 10.2 micrograms of Vitamin
    K in advance (Olsen & Ware, 2019) and 1% of consumption in vitamin A (Szalay & McKelvie, 2017).

    Furthermore, cucumber contains high level of cucurbitacin which is high bitter taste-like nutrients which able to
    inhibits the growth of cell cancer. Alghasham (2013) prove this discovery when it’s been demonstrated that
    cucurbitacin restrict the proliferation of cancer cells and trigger apoptosis (a process of programmed death cell)
    using a utilized broad range in vitro and in vivo tumor cell models. He stated that the Cucurbitaceae roots of
    plant been used as a traditional medicine in certain countries due to wide view of pharmacological activities for
    example like anti-inflammation and antimicrobial effects. Moreover, cucurbitacin are considered to be selective
    inhibitors of the JAK/STAT pathways; where the embryonic development regulated and the control response of
    stem cell maintenance, inflammatory response and haematopoiesis. In fact, increasing awareness and
    chemoprevention, which advocate employing natural or synthetic chemicals to inhibit initiation and promotional
    events linked with cancer formation, are further contemporary trends in the treatment of cancer development.
    The primary sources of natural goods are marine and terrestrial-medicine based plants and animals. They are
    regarded as a rich source of potential new anticancer medications. This escalates the further research on ethno-
    pharmacology and ethno-botany to study about medicinal plants that are utilised in traditional medicine all
    around the world including cucurbitacins. More than 40 types of cucurbitacins and cucurbitacin-derived
    substances have been identified and isolated from the other species of the Kingdome plant and Cucurbitaceae
    family.

    Apart from that, cucurbitacins also have important phytochemicals that metabolises the whole body of plants.
    Products such as resins, steroids, flavonoids and etc can become as the alternative drugs.In contrast to
    macronutrients and micronutrients, these products are biologically active, naturally occurring chemicals in
    plants that provide advantages to human health, especially skins and eyes. Free radicals produced by skin as a
    result of repeated sun exposure, which causes lipid oxidation stresses and inflammatory responses in the skin
    layers of connective tissues, accelerating the ageing process and damaging biological molecules and cell
    membranes. Cucumber usage supposed to enhance the cooling, healing, soothing, emollient, lenitive, anti-
    itching impact of irritated skin as well as additional aesthetic properties for conditions including puffiness under
    the eyes and sunburn to reduce redness and itchiness on both eyes and skin (T.G.G et al., 2020).

    According to several studies, cucumber exhibited a method that was comparable to the loop diuretic
    (Furosemide), surpassing sodium and potassium excretion. However, a portion of cucumber that has a better
    impact on controlling the water and salt balance is still unclear, still we know that cucumber is known for lower
    blood pressure agent. Such that implies that Cucumis sativa. L could treat chronic disease like hyperkalemia. A
    study has found shown that it can treat water balance between sodium intake and water level. This study used an
    animal-designed post-test only control group. In this investigation, 44 male Mus musculus were tested. Two
    control groups and nine distinct treatment groups made comprised the entirety of the animal trials. According to
    their group, 1 mL of cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) methanol extract was given to every Mus musculus. The
    metabolic cage was used during the animal experiment to assess the amount of urine for 24 hours. When
    furosemide was used as a diuretic, the flesh and rind of the cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) had results that were
    identical. Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) contains a potential diuretic comparable to furosemide, however the
    entire fruit (meat, rind, and seed) demonstrated natriuretic and kaliuretic properties. The results found that, the
    largest urine volume was obtained from the fruit flesh and rind of Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) is higher than
    Furosemide within 24 hours, even in the first 60-minute by the furosemide which acts as human’s Loop of
    Henle (Elicia et al., 2021).

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