VMs: Cucumber juice

[Jorge Stolfi <stolfi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

  [Elmar:] I read this someplace else, and I just wondered... why on
  Earth _cucumber juice_?

Ecballium elaterium, a poisonous weed which I think I have seen listed
in some herbals as a strong purgative, is called "spitting cucumber"
or "squirting cucumber" for the way it spreads its seeds. Perhaps that
is it?

http://www.ibiblio.org/herbmed/pictures/p05/pages/ecballium-elaterium.htm
http://www.geocities.com/pelionature/Ecballium.htm

All the best,

--stolfi
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