PARTE UTILIZADA= USED PART: Fruto

ACCIÓN FARMACOLOGICA=PHARMACOLOGICAL ACTION: Propiedades estomacales, depurativo, emoliente, anticatarrales.

POSOLOGÍA=POSOLOGY: Su uso es mediante pomada, aceite y cataplasma.

ZONA GEOGRAFICA=GEOGRAFICAL ZONE: Argentina

Uses: hypertension.                                                 

Origin: Belize, Bolivia, Burma, Canada, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Madagascar, Mexico Nepal, Nicaraguaa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Venezuela.   

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Range. Southern Asia. Cultivated in Myanmar.

Uses
Fruit: Used as an anthelmintic.

Seed: Used as diuretic.

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Origin:
Cultivated for its edible fruits which are usually used as salad vegetable.

Action:
Seed—used in dysuria, irritation of the urinary tract, cystitis. Reduces specific gravity of urine. Also used for tapeworms.
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Origin

Jamaica

Folk medicinal uses

The fruit of the cucumber is also regarded as cooling. Its composition is similar to that of the preceding species. The seeds which contain about 25 per cent oil are used by the Europeans of the Transvaal as an anthelmintic. The oil contains vitamin A.Watt considered the seeds cooling and diuretic.

1) Enciclopedia de las plantas que curan. Buenos Aires: Ediliba, 1987

2) Geraldini , Isanete, Journal of Ethnopharmacology v. 173, 2015 . -- p. 383-423

3) Fruit: Juice rubbed on skin to remedy skin diseases. Juice from grated fruit used to treat high blood pressure.

4) DeFilipps, Robert A.; Krupnick, Gary A. / PhytoKeys, v. 102. - - p. 1 - 314,  2018.

5) Khare, C.P./ Indian Medicinal Plants. -- Nueva Dheli: Springer, 2007 . - p. 836.

6) Asprey, G.F; Phylis Thornton/ Medicinal plants of Jamaica. Parts III & IV. – p. 56.