The beauty and health benefits of cucumber (खीरे के लाभ) are immense including dissolves pigmentation, urine retention, high blood pressure, acidity and helps to provide dense and shiny hair and many more!

The humble, crunchy cucumber is a wonderful vegetable to beat the scorching summer heat as it has contain more than 90% of water. Most of us use cucumber as our favorite salad or appetizer. The skin of a cucumber is rich in fiber and contains a variety of beneficial minerals including silica, Vitamin K, B, C, beta-carotene, potassium and magnesium which are useful for ensuring healthy hair  and skin. The silica in cucumber is an essential component of healthy connective tissue, which includes muscles, tendons, ligaments, cartilage, and bone.

Cucumbers do more for your health and beauty. Read ahead for 5 easy DIY tips that can be done with cucumber to treat different health and beauty issues.

Beauty And Health Benefits of Cucumber : Video

Beauty And Health Benefits of Cucumber – 1 (For Pigmentation)

Cucumber is a very good natural beauty product to cure pigmentation. The reason is that it flushes out toxins accumulated on skin surface.

• Add 1/2 roughly chopped cucumber and 25 gm fresh coriander leaves to a grinder. Grind them to make a paste.
• Add 1 tsp fresh lemon juice and 2 tsp rice flour to it and mix it well.
• Apply this face pack on your face in circular motion. Wash the face with tap water after 10 minutes.

Doing it daily lightens the pigmentation gradually and also removes them completely.

Beauty And Health Benefits of Cucumber – 2 (For Dense and Shiny Hair)

For dense and shiny hair cucumber is very good hair tonic because it is rich in minerals.

• Grind 1 cucumber to make a nice hair pack.
• Add 1 egg and 4 tsp olive oil to it and mix it well.
• Apply it on hair and head with the help of cotton.
• Leave it for 10 minutes and then wash head with herbal shampoo.

Do it regularly once or twice a week. It makes hair dense and shiny very quickly.

Beauty And Health Benefits of Cucumber – 3 (For Urine Retention)

Cucumber is considered as nectar in Ayurveda for almost all diseases related to urinary system.

• Take 100 ml cucumber juice.
• Add 1/4 tsp coriander powder to it and mix it well.
• Drink it daily once a day for approximately 1 month.

It cures urine retention very quickly. Due to this, chances of kidney stones are also reduced to minimum.

Beauty And Health Benefits of Cucumber – 4 (High Blood Pressure)

Cucumber is rich in fiber, potassium, magnesium etc. Therefore it is very much beneficial to cure high blood pressure.

• Take 100 ml cucumber juice.
• Add 50 ml beetroot juice, 75 ml carrot juice and 1 tsp fresh lemon juice to it and mix it well.

Drink it daily twice a day. High blood pressure lowers and become normal within few days by doing it regularly.

Beauty And Health Benefits of Cucumber – 5 (Acidity)

Cucumber is also a very good natural medicine for Acidity.

• Take 100 ml cucumber juice.
• Add 50 ml pineapple juice and mix it well.

Drinking it daily once a day gives great benefit in acidity within few days.

After reading the amazing benefits of cucumber, now you can sure to get a whole lot of nutrition from this truly “cool” vegetable.

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