Chinese medicine believes that pomelo taste sweet, acid, cold, have a healthy stomach and food, down the gas phlegm, light and happy color and other functions. Modern medical research has found that pomelo meat is very rich in vitamin C and insulin-like components, so there are lower blood sugar, blood fat, weight loss, skin care and other effects. Regular consumption, hypertension, diabetes, vascular sclerosis and other diseases have auxiliary therapeutic effects, obese people have health and beauty function.
Pomelo is not only high in nutritional value, but also has a stomach, lung, blood, intestinal, diuretic effect, can promote wound healing, sepsis and other good auxiliary effect. In addition, because pomelo contains physiologically active substances, skin glycosides, so can reduce the viscosity of the blood, reduce the formation of blood clots, so the cerebrovascular disease, such as cerebral thrombosis, stroke, etc. also has a good preventive effect. Fresh pomelo meat contains insulin-like components, is the ideal food for diabetics. Pomelo therapeutic efficacy is particularly obvious, will be a pomelo peeled, peeled the inner white pith, chopped, put in a covered bowl, add the right amount of honey, steamed and cooked, every morning and evening a spoonful, rushed a little bit of yellow wine internal service, can cure the elderly cough asthma. Frequent colds, coughs, sensitive trachea, can be used to fresh pomelo a stay skin core, with the North apricot, shellfish, unbleached ear (or yellow ear) each one or two (50 grams), plus honey (the best choice can moisten the lungs of the honey cough) stew one day, often served to strengthen the lungs.
However, there are contraindications to eating grapefruit. Spleen deficiency and diarrhea people eat pomelo will belly diarrhea, because they have a weak absorption of food nutrients and transformation ability. Pomelo can not be served with certain medicines, clinical observation found that hyperlipidemic patients with a cup of grapefruit juice swallowed a piece of lovastatin, the results are equivalent to a cup of water swallowed 12-l5 pieces of lovastatin (also known as the United States to lower the lipid) of the lipid-lowering effect, so the patient is very susceptible to toxicity, muscle pain, and even kidney disease.