Quick And Easy Cucumber Salad

Healthy, Quick And Easy To Prepare Cucumber Salad

Even though the heat appears never to stop, there are still plenty more scorching summer days ahead. Maybe cool as a cucumber, or perhaps you’re sweating profusely in this scorching heat! While we may be rushing to put on the air conditioner, from a Traditional Chinese Medicine standpoint, I also like to turn to food – here’s how you can utilize cucumber to help you remain relaxed and hydrated.

Cucumbers (“Huang Gua”) are “cool natured yin tonics” according to Traditional Chinese Medicine. They are alkaline, moisturizing, and somewhat diuretic. It implies that they encourage urine without being too toxic.

Cucumbers are high in fiber, vitamin K, magnesium, potassium, and potassium. They decrease redness and puffiness in the eyes and face, promote systemic cooldown, are anti-inflammatory, and use as topically to treat insect bites and sunburn.

Ways To Use Cucumbers

While much Traditional Chinese Medicine uses cucumbers, here are some excellent ways to utilize cucumbers (which you may already have in plenty in your garden!)

• Hydration: Combine cucumbers and lemon in a pitcher of water and store in the refrigerator.
• Insect Bits: Slice a cucumber into ribbons and apply to sunburns, or slice into rounds and apply to bug bites.
• A Cucumber Salad for Summer: Make a cucumber salad, which you can see the recipe for below.
• Make a DIY cucumber facial mask and treat yourself to a much-needed (and refreshing) mini-spa treatment.
• Relax with a delicious cucumber margarita.

Here’s how to make my favorite cucumber salad. It has a range of “Chinese dietary therapy” components and a flavor profile suitable for a refreshing summer side dish.

Quick And Easy Cucumber Salad Recipe

Ingredients

• 1 Cucumber (washed with tough skins peeled)
• Two cloves minced garlic (or 3, because garlic)
• 1 Tbsp rice vinegar
• 1 Tbsp tamari
• 1 Tbsp toasted sesame oil
• 1 pinch brown sugar
• 1/2 tsp chili oil or paste (taste, I add more, I like them spicy!)

Instructions 

Roll the cucumber to loosen the liquid and seeds, then slice into rounds. Combine all remaining ingredients and whisk together, pour over cucumbers. You can serve them immediately or let them marinate to soak up the flavor.

REFERENCE

COOL YOUR YIN WITH THIS RECIPE FOR CHINESE CUCUMBER SALAD

About The Doc

With a commitment to helping others actualize their greatest potential and well-being, Dr. East has been a licensed acupuncturist since 1999 and professor of Chinese Medicine at the Pacific College of Health Sciences since 2004. Specializing in MIE: Motivation, Inspiration, and Encouragement, Dr. East helps practitioners of alternative medicine align with their three P’s: Purpose, Passion, and Prosperity. In 2019 she published the book More Than a Treatment, which held the Amazon bestseller’s list in Practice Management for several weeks. She currently resides in Del Mar, CA with her husband and two kids and continues to help patients, students, other practitioners, and the general public with her lectures, workshops, books, events, coaching programs, and wellness-related products.

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