Cucumber juice can lower blood pressure

Hypertension is a degenerative disease that becomes a major problem in society, especially elderly. Hypertension causes complications of cerebral hemorrhage, heart failure, kidney failure, and blindness due to rupture of blood vessels.

The use of modern hypertension medical treatment may cause a side effect, so cucumber as one of traditional medicines may become a choice. Apart from the fruits that are easily obtain, cucumber fruit is also an option because of its low price.

Study published in Public Health of Indonesia. 2017 March;3(1):30-36 revealed that there was a significant effect of cucumber juice on lowering blood pressure.

Cucumbers can lower blood pressure with no side effect. Cucumber has a mineral content, including potassium, magnesium, and phosphorus. Cucumber also rich in: vitamin C, β-carotene, molybdenum, several flavonoid antioxidants.

Potassium increases the excretion of Na, lowers renin secretion, arteriolar vasodilatation, and lowers response to endogenous vasoconstrictor; while magnesium mineral plays a role of blood flow and the nerves.

Mineral rich in cucumber is able to bind salt and is excreted through urine. In addition, cucumber is also useful as a detoxification because the water content is very high up to 90% make cucumber has diuretic effect.
Cucumber juice can lower blood pressure

Cucumber Juice

Cucumber can be juiced using juice extractor. Put together with lemon juice and mint and blend.

Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.), belongs to the Cucurbitaceae family. The major bioactive elements in cucumber include vitamin C, A, B6, potassium, magnesium, phosphorus, manganese, flavonoids, β-carotene, lignans and triterpenes which have the ability to act as antioxidant and anti-inflammatory agents.

Several other pharmacological activities have been reported with this plant

including the antiwrinkle, antimicrobial, antidiabetic, and hypolipidemic potentials.

The fruits are sweet, refrigerant, hemostatic and tonic. Because of that, traditionally cucumber is used for the wide spectrum of cure in rural and urban areas to remove general debility, for treatment of skin problems and as a cooling agent.

Study by Polytechnic Kesihatan Indonesia shows that cucumber juice could lower blood pressure in elderly. Potassium in cucumber increases the excretion of Na, lowers renin secretion, arteriolar vasodilatation, and lowers response to endogenous vasoconstrictor; while mineral magnesium is a strong vasodilatation because it is lowering contractility of vascular smooth muscle.

Cucumbers is known to have a diuretic effect since it contains a lot of water which helps reduce blood pressure.
Cucumber Juice