Cucumber Soother Juice Recipe
Description and Health Benefits
This juice helps to sooth a sore throat but you don’t need to wait till then to enjoy the cooling nature of this refreshing juice.
Drinking cucumber juice helps treat kidney and bladder infections. Consuming whole cucumbers or the juice cools most other inflammatory or heat conditions, including stomach inflammation, conjunctivitis, sore throat, acne, and inflamed skin diseases. Hence the saying cool as a cucumber.
You probably reach for a glass of orange juice when you get the sniffles. That is good, but maybe you should consider pineapple juice instead. It has vitamin C like its orange cousin, but it also has bromelain, which helps suppress coughs and loosens the mucus that often accompanies colds.
As mentioned before this juice is very beneficial for sore throats, tonsillitis and laryngitis. It has a soothing effect on the throat.
The addition of fresh sage leaves adds a powerful antiseptic and a traditional remedy for throat and lung conditions.
Happy Juicing!
Ingredients
- 3 carrots
- 2 celery stalks
- 1 pineapple
- 6 fresh sage leaves
- 1 cucumber
Preparation
Cucumber (5 sec)
- Cut in chunks to fit down the chute
- Juice with skin on
Carrots (15 sec)
- Cut carrots lengthwise once
- If larger carrots are used cut again lengthwise
Celery (30 sec)
- Chop into small pieces (5cm) across the stalks to cut the long stringy fibre
- You can juice the leaves if you like the bitter taste otherwise discard
Pineapple (1 min)
- Slice off the outer skin
- Cut into long thin strips to fit down the chute
- Chop the core into small chucks
Sage (10 sec)
- Pull the leaves away from the woody stems
Method
Keep the cap closed at the start to blend the 1st three ingredients.
Begin juicing the cucumber then put the sage leaves in all at once followed by the celery one handful at a time.
Let those three ingredient blend a little before releasing the cap. Next juice the pineapple piece by piece and finish with the carrots one half at a time.
Its always best to juice pineapple and carrot slowly letting the machine chew them up before adding more in.
Juicing Time: 3 min
Juice Qty: 950ml
Tip: The juice from cucumbers relieves all burns, especially sunburn when applied topically.
Gary Dowse
Kuvings Master Juice Chef
Founder of the Healthy Eating & Lifestyle program. Gary is passionate about natural healing therapies and wholefood medicine. He practices yoga and qigong and teaches people about the preventative and restorative healing powers of juicing and eating a whole food plant-based diet.
Cucumber Soother is one of the First Aid Juicee Recipes in the Kuvings Cold Press Juicing online course. You can start the course anytime and receive immediate access to 11 lessons and 190 recipes.