Pomelo tea is a health drink imported from Korea. Pomelo is sour in flavor and cold in nature, and has various functions such as moving qi, eliminating food, removing phlegm, detoxifying alcohol, and analgesic. Koreans will be pomelo with honey, made of honey pomelo tea, which is rich in nutrients, unique flavor and has good health effects.
The Chinese medicine believes that pomelo taste sweet and sour, cold, with the qi and phlegm, moistening the lungs and clearing the intestines, replenish the blood and spleen and other effects, is a good winter lung and relieve the coughing after a cold good fruit. Eating pomelo also has contraindications:
1, pomelo can not be served with certain medicines. Clinical findings, hyperlipidemia patients with a cup of grapefruit juice served a piece of the United States lipid-lowering tablets, the results are equivalent to a cup of water served 12 to l5 tablets of the same type of drug lipid-lowering effect, the patient will therefore appear muscle pain, and even kidney lesions. Some patients in taking anti-allergy drug terfenadine during the period, if you eat grapefruit or drink grapefruit juice, light dizziness, palpitations, arrhythmia, etc., may be serious sudden death. Other drugs that interact adversely with grapefruit include: cyclosporine, caffeine, calcium antagonists, and cisapride. Drinking a cup of grapefruit juice, and the possibility of drug effects will be maintained for 24 hours, therefore, are taking medication patients, especially the elderly, it is best not to eat grapefruit or drink grapefruit juice.
2, women taking birth control pills should avoid eating. A U.S. study showed that grapefruit has the most prominent effect on contraceptive pills. Experts say that "if a woman who has taken birth control pills, consume 1 to 2 grapefruit after sex, or directly with a large cup of grapefruit juice to send birth control pills, then she may become a mother, the reason is that grapefruit hinders the absorption of birth control pills in women."
3, pomelo cold, spleen deficiency and diarrhea people eat pomelo will be diarrhea, so the body cold people should not eat more.
4, high blood pressure patients taking medication do not eat pomelo. Experts suggest that during the taking of antihypertensive drugs, do not eat grapefruit or drink grapefruit juice, otherwise it can produce a sudden drop in blood pressure and other serious toxic side effects. Taking antihypertensive drugs, if you eat pomelo at the same time, it is like taking an overdose of antihypertensive drugs, so that the blood pressure fell significantly, and can even induce angina pectoris, myocardial infarction or stroke.