Karkati. Vern. Kάnkur, Beng. Kakri, Hind.

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 kάnjika.2

The seeds of Cucumis sativa, (Sans.

Trapusha. Vern.

Khira, Hind.) and of Benincasa cerifera (Sans. Kushmάnda.) are also used as diuretics like those of Cucumis utilissimus.3