Cucumber cold or warm

Cucumber belongs to cool nature, not cold nature, nor warm nature.

According to TCM theory, cucumber neither belongs to cold nature nor warm nature, but cool nature. Cucumber is sweet, cool nature, return to lung, spleen and stomach meridians, has the effect of clearing away heat, diuresis and swelling, and promoting production and quenching thirst, which helps to relieve dry mouth, thirst, dry skin, fever, edema, oliguria, short urine, water and fire burns, fried sores and other diseases caused by fever and body fluid injury. Because cucumber is cold in nature, it is not recommended for people with deficiency cold constitution and deficiency cold of spleen and stomach to prevent gastrointestinal discomfort, diarrhea, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms.