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Cucumber Case Study

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CUCUMBER Cucumis sativus belongs to Cucurbitaceae family, it is most widely cultivated vegetable crop all over the world (Pradhan et al., 2013). It is also originated in Asia as wild cucumbers exist in India and is closely related species is found in eastern Himalayan. Based on the evidence indicates that it has been cultivated in western Asia for more than 3,000 years. From India it spread to Greece and Italy and later into China. Cucumber is now cultivated commercially in farms, green houses and in home gardens throughout the world especially in the tropics and sub-tropics. Cucumbers also are grown to be eaten fresh or for pickling or some of them made salad dressing and mix it with other vegetables. Traditionally, cucumber is believed to cause diuretic effect. A few studies had been done on the diuretic activity of cucumber. From a review article by Minaiyan …show more content…

The study also included cucumis sativus. In this study, the seed of cucumis sativus was induced into goat and the urine volume collected. The result from this study shows that cucumis sativus can be used as diuretic and also can be used as hypotensive preparation (Iqbal et al., …show more content…

This is due to the medical usage is reported in Indian and British Pharmacopoeias and in indigenous medicine system. On a review article by Hussain et al. (2011), the medical properties of asparagus recemosus are as anti-ulcerogenic activity, hypolipidemic activity, diuretic activity and antioxidant activity. According to Mishra et al. (2013), diuretic activity of extract asparagus racemosus with acute toxicity study showed no fatality even with high dose and the diuretic study revealed significant diuretic activity with dose of 3

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