The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s12.t3.2

c5.s12.t3.2

The seeds of this useful species of *Cucumis* are described as cooling, edible, nutritive and diuretic, and are used in painful micturition and suppression of urine. Two drachms of the seeds rubbed into a pulp with water, are given alone or in combination with salt and *kánjika*.²