EXPLODING CUCUMBER Berries Whole

EXPLODING CUCUMBER BERRIES, Botanical name: Ecballium elaterium is widely used as Health Care Tea for Herbal Remedy in Herbal medicine, Naturopathic medicin and Holistic medicine. Its sometimes in our best interest to use Herbs instead of usual medicines.

Botanical name:  Ecballium elaterium

Common Names:    Squirting cucumber or Exploding cucumber

Habitat:     It is native to Europe, northern Africa, and temperate areas of Asia. It is grown as an ornamental plant elsewhere, and in some places it has naturalized.
This plant, and especially its fruit, is poisonous, containing cucurbitacins.In the ancient world it was considered to be an abortifacient.

Plant Description:    Ecballium elaterium, also called the squirting cucumber or exploding cucumber (but not to be confused with Cyclanthera explodens), is a plant in the cucumber family.
It gets its unusual name from the fact that, when ripe, it squirts a stream of mucilaginous liquid containing its seeds, which can be seen with the naked eye.
It is thus considered to have rapid plant movement.It is native to Europe, northern Africa, and temperate areas of Asia. It is grown as an ornamental plant elsewhere, and in some places it has naturalized.It is suspected to provide food for the caterpillars of the tortrix moth Phtheochroa rugosana.
This plant, and especially its fruit, is poisonous, containing cucurbitacins. In the ancient world it was considered to be an abortifacient. In Turkey, the fresh fruit juice of this plant is directly applied into the nostrils for the treatment of sinusitis as an herbal medicine. Clinical tests on voluntary patients revealed that the healing rate of double-high dosage application is higher than that of the single-low dosage (71.0 and 56.6%, respectively).
In addition, total relief from the main symptoms is observed in 20% of the patients, although the sinuses are not completely drained off on x-ray examination.

Plant Part/s Used Traditionally:    Fruit

Plant Part/s We are Selling in this Listing:  BERRIES Whole
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Packaging:  Paper envelope PAP 22 / BS EN 26590-1 for nutritional purposes. Thus, the herbs are kept in the best possible way - no contact with light and moisture, with the ability to breathe through the paper.

Country of Origin:  BULGARIA

WARNING:  Just because herbs are 'natural', it does not mean that they are safe for everyone to use.
We cannot accept responsibility for any adverse effects which arise from self-medication.
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