What are the taboos for eating grapefruit?

1. Patients with hypertension should not eat grapefruit when taking medicine.

Experts suggest that you should not eat grapefruit or drink grapefruit juice during taking antihypertensive drugs, otherwise there may be serious side effects such as sudden drop in blood pressure. Experts say that if you take grapefruit at the same time when taking antihypertensive drugs, it is like taking too many antihypertensive drugs, which will obviously lower your blood pressure and even induce angina pectoris, myocardial infarction or stroke.

2. People with diarrhea due to spleen deficiency should not eat more.

Grapefruit is cold, and people who have diarrhea due to spleen deficiency will have diarrhea after eating grapefruit. Therefore, people with deficiency and cold should not eat more. Grapefruit is often used to reduce fire, and if it falls too much, symptoms such as diarrhea will appear.

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Efficacy and function of grapefruit

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that grapefruit is sweet, sour and cold, and has the functions of invigorating stomach, promoting digestion, reducing qi and resolving phlegm, and being light and happy. Modern medical research has found that grapefruit meat is rich in vitamin C and insulin-like components, so it has the effects of lowering blood sugar, reducing blood fat, losing weight and beauty beauty. Regular consumption helps to treat diseases such as hypertension, diabetes and arteriosclerosis. It has the functions of strengthening body constitution and beauty beauty for obese people.

Grapefruit also has the effects of invigorating stomach, moistening lung, enriching blood, clearing intestine and relaxing bowels. It can promote wound healing and has a good auxiliary effect on septicemia. In addition, grapefruit contains glucocorticoid, a physiologically active substance, which can reduce blood viscosity and reduce the formation of thrombosis, so it also has a good preventive effect on cerebrovascular diseases, such as cerebral thrombosis and stroke. Fresh pomelo meat is an ideal food for diabetic patients because it contains insulin-like components.

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