The dangers of using cucumber on the face

Cucumber is a vegetable with relatively high edible value and high nutritional content. There are many ways to cook cucumber, and different methods produce different tastes. We can also use cucumber to apply on the face. Cucumber has certain beauty effects, but most people don’t know that applying cucumber on the face can cause many harms. So what are the harms of applying cucumber on the face?

Cucumber is a very effective natural beauty product. According to expert research, the cucumber enzyme contained in fresh cucumbers is a biological enzyme with strong biological activity. It can effectively promote the body's metabolism, dilate skin capillaries, promote blood circulation, enhance the skin's redox function, and has an amazing moisturizing and beauty effect. Applying fresh cucumber juice on your skin every day can moisturize your skin and reduce wrinkles.

Cucumber is a good medicine, and its vine, root and seeds can all be used as medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cucumbers are sweet and cold in nature, and have the effects of clearing away heat and thirst, and unblocking urinary channels. It can cure thirst, sore throat, red eyes and burns. For patients with fever who have dry mouth and tongue, eating some cucumbers has a good effect of clearing heat, promoting salivation and quenching thirst. For patients with sore throat and conjunctivitis, use an old cucumber, remove the seeds, fill the cucumber with saltpeter, dry it in the shade, grind it into a very fine powder, and use it to blow into the throat or use as an eye drop. For burns or prickly heat, mash a fresh cucumber and apply it to the affected area. Pickled cucumbers with honey can treat dysentery and diarrhea.

The vines, leaves and roots of cucumber have the effect of promoting diuresis and detoxification, and can treat diseases such as impetigo, dysentery and diarrhea.

Cucumbers have many functions, and cucumber beauty is a secret known to everyone. Cucumber, also known as cucumber and king melon, is a vegetable that can beautify your skin. Cucumber contains 96%-98% water. It is not only crisp, fragrant and delicious, but also rich in nutrients. Cucumber contains a variety of sugars (glucose, rhamnose, galactose, mannose, xylose, fructose) necessary for human growth and development and life activities, more vitamins (vitamin C, A, B2, E) and rich potassium salts and sugars, calcium, phosphorus, iron, rutin, and a variety of free amino acids, fine cellulose, chlorogenic acid and other ingredients. Among them, the content of vitamin C is 5 times higher than that of watermelon. It also contains soft, fine cellulose, which promotes the excretion of intestinal decay substances and lowers cholesterol.