Carambola contains many ingredients that are beneficial to human health, such as sugar, vitamin A, vitamin C, and various fibers and acids.

Carambola is a kind of fruit with a lot of water, and the soluble solids of fresh fruit are 9%. The edible part per100g contains 6.2g of carbohydrate and 7mg of vitamin C, and contains sucrose, fructose, glucose, malic acid 46.8g, oxalic acid 7.2g, citric acid, vitamin B 1, B2, calcium, potassium, magnesium, trace fat, protein and other nutrients, so it is a kind of fruit with comprehensive nutrition.

Effects of carambola fruit:

Carambola fruit, controlling wind and heat, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. Traditional Chinese medicine has the functions of regulating qi, clearing heat and quenching thirst, promoting fluid production and relieving annoyance, inducing diuresis, detoxicating, sobering up and helping digestion. It can be used for treating wind-heat cough, thirst, dysphoria, sore throat, stomatitis, toothache, liver disease, dysuria, lithiasis, scurvy, and poisoning with alcohol.

The carambola root has the effects of nocturnal emission, hemostasis and pain relief. Used to treat headache, joint pain, heart pain, nocturnal emission and nosebleeds.

The branches and leaves of carambola have the effects of dissipating heat and promoting urination. It can be used for treating blood-heat pruritus, fever and headache, scabies and chicken pox.

Peach blossom has the effect of clearing away heat. Used to treat cold and heat.

Preserved carambola with white honey is effective in treating acclimatization and malaria.

The role of carambola:

1, protect the liver, reduce blood lipid and blood sugar: carambola can reduce the body's absorption of fat, reduce blood lipid and cholesterol, and prevent cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension and arteriosclerosis. At the same time, it can also protect the liver and lower blood sugar.

2. Eliminate fatigue: The carambola is rich in sugar, vitamin C and organic acids, and the fruit juice is abundant, which can quickly replenish the body's water, promote fluid production and quench thirst, and make the heat or alcohol poison in the body excrete with urine to eliminate fatigue.

3, promote digestion: carambola juice contains a lot of fiber, oxalic acid, citric acid, malic acid, etc., which can improve the acidity of gastric juice and promote the digestion of food. Such as chest tightness, nausea, indigestion, abdominal distension and burping, as long as you eat more carambola, the symptoms can be gradually alleviated.

4, relieving cough, eliminating phlegm, moistening lung, protecting trachea: contains a large number of volatile components, carotenoids, sugars, organic acids and vitamins B and C, which can eliminate throat inflammation and oral ulcers and prevent toothache caused by wind and fire. Slices dipped in salt can improve sore throat and hoarse voice; Juicing and drinking can improve oral ulcer and angular stomatitis.

5, treatment of hoarseness: According to folk experience, carambola has the effect of treating hoarseness and sore throat. It is said that peeling carambola into five edges or slices, dipping in a little salt or squeezing out juice and adding a little salt to eat, has a wonderful effect. Eating raw food at ordinary times also has the functions of promoting fluid production to quench thirst, moistening lung with qi, removing wind and heat, and diuresis.

6, diuresis, hemostasis: carambola has diuresis, hemostasis, especially when hemorrhoids bleed. In Brazil, it is used as a diuretic. And has antibiotic effect on malaria parasites.

7, beauty: carambola contains a lot of fruit acid, which can inhibit the precipitation of melanin, can effectively remove or fade dark spots, and has a moisturizing effect, which can make the skin moist and shiny, and also improve dry or oily skin tissue. Significant effect. Here's a cosmetic method for external application of carambola: mash carambola and apply it for10-15 minutes each time, which will help to eliminate black spots and melanin on the face. In addition, carambola has a miraculous effect on losing weight.

8. Treat colds and relieve cold symptoms: fever due to colds, thirst and constipation, golden yellow urine, foul breath, unsmooth breathing, red eyes and red muscles, even aching muscles all over the body, sore joints, and sweaty skin, but not dripping. This is the lung and stomach heat, you can eat carambola frequently, naturally breathe smoothly, reduce fever and pain, return to normal urination and defecation, and eliminate discomfort.

What can't carambola eat with?

1. Don't eat it with cheese, otherwise the diarrhea will continue and the consequences will be unimaginable. Carambola has the function of clearing away heat and reducing internal heat. Carambola juice can treat otitis media, sore throat and other diseases. Carambola is an acidic food, while cheese is alkaline. When they meet, cheese will solidify and become rough, and people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold will cause diarrhea.

2. It is not suitable to eat with seafood. Carambola is rich in vitamin C, while seafood such as shrimp and crab contains pentavalent arsenic compounds. When it meets vitamin C, arsenic will become trivalent, that is, it will produce highly toxic arsenic. If it is eaten like this for a long time, it will be harmful to health.

3. You can't eat with cucumber. Carambola is rich in vitamin C, while cucumber contains vitamin C decomposing enzymes. Eating them together will affect the absorption of vitamin C and its nutritional value. Moreover, cucumber is also a cool food. If you eat it together for a long time, you are prone to discomfort such as stomach pain. It is recommended not to eat these two foods at the same time.

The side effect of eating carambola is burping and vomiting after eating it, and it is taboo for people with poor stomach and constitution such as hypertension and diabetes. Therefore, these people should not eat carambola.

Taboos of carambola

1. Carambola contains a neurotoxin, which can be metabolized by ordinary people, but patients with kidney disease cannot excrete this toxin, leading to poisoning.

The neurotoxin of carambola will affect the central nervous system of the body. Under normal circumstances, it will be eliminated by the human kidney, but patients with severe kidney disease or uremia will have poisoning symptoms because the neurotoxin cannot be eliminated.

Neurotoxicity caused by carambola, except hiccups and vomiting, may cause confusion and even death because toxins enter the brain.

The neurotoxin in carambola is unknown at present, and there is no antidote. It can only be discharged by washing the kidney with activated carbon. Therefore, people with diseases such as hypertension and diabetes should pay attention to their renal function before eating. People with poor kidney function should never eat carambola.

2. Carambola also contains oxalic acid, which is a slightly toxic substance. Some patients with kidney disease cannot excrete oxalic acid after eating carambola, except that oxalic acid will combine with calcium ions in the human body to produce stones, and patients with kidney disease may be poisoned if they eat a small amount.

Patients will have symptoms of unconsciousness after poisoning, but the average healthy person has no problem eating. About 2.6 million people have chronic kidney disease, and even patients who are dialysis can be poisoned if they accidentally eat carambola.

3. Carambola also contains some substances, which can make most oral drugs enter the blood circulation system without being metabolized in the intestine, thus enhancing the efficacy.

Drugs such as statins are not suitable for eating with carambola. Therefore, similar to the situation of grapefruit, other drugs that are not recommended to be taken with grapefruit should not be taken with carambola.