Grapefruit is good for people with heart disease

Modern research shows that grapefruit is very suitable for treating vascular diseases, especially heart disease and coronary artery disease.

It also reduces platelet aggregation, preventing platelets from sticking together and causing vascular occlusion. Grapefruit also has anti-inflammatory and anti-convulsant effects.

Grapefruit is also called bong, scientific name: Citrus Grandis Osbeck. Orange family (Rutaceae).

Grapefruit is sour and cold. Eating it makes people feel relaxed and cures morning sickness, poor appetite, stomachache, alcohol retention, and indigestion.

Pink grapefruit contains a large amount of vitamin A and beta carotene, which helps brighten and strengthen the eyes. In addition, each grapefruit also contains 325mg of potassium, 25 micrograms of folate, 40mg of calcium, and 1mg of iron.

Oriental medicine believes that each part of the grapefruit has its own effect.

Grapefruit is good for people with heart disease.

Grapefruit leaves

Grapefruit leaves have a bitter, spicy taste, aromatic smell, warm properties, and the effect of dispelling cold, dispersing gas, clearing meridians, relieving colds, eliminating phlegm, digesting food, promoting blood circulation, reducing swelling, and reducing inflammation.

Treat sprains, joint swelling due to cold, trauma: regardless of dosage, roast grapefruit leaves and apply to the painful area, massage or boil water to steam and soak the area.

Grapefruit is considered a "miracle drug", especially for patients with diabetes.

Grapefruit peel

Bitter and spicy taste, toxic; diuretic, expectorant, diuretic, blood harmonizing, pain relieving, treatment of rheumatism, intestinal pain, and edema.

The outer peel of grapefruit contains many essential oils, is spicy, bitter, sweet, and warm, has the effect of supporting digestion and treating colds, coughs, and pain relief, and is often used in steaming therapy to relieve colds.

Grapefruit peel also contains many flavonoids such as naringosid, hesperidin, diosmin, diosmetin, hesperitin... which have the effect of protecting capillary walls, reducing permeability, making capillaries more elastic and durable, helping to prevent accidents due to ruptured capillaries, indirectly helping to lower blood pressure.

Treats chest tightness, rib pain due to rising gas, loss of appetite due to anger affecting the liver: peel of a fresh grapefruit, 2 onions. Burn the grapefruit peel until the outer layer is burnt, then scrape off the peel, soak in clean water for 1 day to dissolve the bitter taste in the peel. Remove the peel, cut into pieces, put in a pot to boil with water, when almost cooked, chop 2 onions, add spices, eat with meals. 1 dose per day. This dish has the effect of clearing stagnant gas, lowering gas, and eliminating phlegm.

Treat edema and edema after giving birth: equal amounts of dried grapefruit peel and motherwort extract (or motherwort plant), grind and mix well, drink 8g each time with wine on an empty stomach. Or use 20-30g of each ingredient to boil and drink during the day.

Grapefruit pulp

Oriental medicine uses grapefruit white pulp to clear the meridians, so it is often used to treat aches and pains (caused by stagnant blood and energy).

Chemical analysis shows that grapefruit white pulp contains pectin, essential oil and two main flavonoids, hesperidin and natrigin.

Pectin is a soluble fiber, it absorbs cholesterol in food and bile salts, causing cholesterol and fat to remain in the intestines and be excreted in the stool, thus contributing to reducing blood cholesterol, indirectly preventing diabetes, obesity and arteriosclerosis.

Pectin also has a laxative effect. Pregnant women, the elderly, and people who have just recovered from serious illnesses often have depleted blood and yin, which causes dry, hard stools and difficulty defecating (constipation). Boil grapefruit pulp until the water is thick, then cook it with black sesame seeds to create a “wonderful” laxative remedy.

Pectin is also not metabolized, not absorbed into the blood, so it becomes a fake food, very convenient for the menu of people who need to lose weight (obesity). Therefore, some chefs have taken advantage of the white pulp of grapefruit mixed with meat to make a delicious spring roll dish that also avoids the fat that causes fullness when eating this dish. Sweet soup sellers also take advantage of grapefruit pulp to cook sweet soup that is both delicious and less boring.

Hesperidin and naringin have properties similar to rutin, helping to protect the elasticity of blood vessels, prevent arteriosclerosis, and indirectly prevent high blood pressure and stroke.

Treating chronic cough in the elderly: take 50 - 100g of grapefruit pulp (ie peel off the outer green skin). 20g of rock sugar, steam until cooked, drink the medicinal juice.

Treat dry cough, phlegm, indigestion: boil 10 - 20g of the green outer peel of grapefruit to get the water to drink.

Grapefruit juice

Grapefruit juice is sweet, sour, cool, non-toxic, has the effect of strengthening the spleen, laxative, anti-constipation, cooling, anti-thirst, detoxifying alcohol, treating coughs... Grapefruit juice has low heat-generating ability because it only has 9% glucid, including soluble fiber.

Grapefruit juice contains many nutrients such as fruit sugars, protein, fat, tannic acid, beta-carotene and minerals such as phosphorus, iron, calcium, magnesium, vitamins B1, B2, C.

Recent studies show that grapefruit juice is rich in potassium, an active ingredient that helps reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes.

According to modern pharmacological research, grapefruit juice has components similar to insulin, helps lower blood sugar, has a supportive effect on patients with diabetes and high blood pressure. Actual verification shows that eating grapefruit regularly will help lose weight and prevent diabetes.

Treatment of severe cough and phlegm:

100g grapefruit juice, 15ml rice wine, 30ml honey, steam until cooked, eat once a day.

Finely chop grapefruit rice, put it in a jar, soak in alcohol, cover tightly overnight, cook until soft, mix well with honey, and swallow regularly.

Treatment of digestive disorders, pale mouth, reflux of saliva:

60g grapefruit rice, eat all at once, 3 times a day.

Grapefruit juice, 50g each time, 3 times a day, for 5 consecutive days.

Squeeze 5-8 grapefruits to get the juice, cook until thick, add 500g honey, 100g rock sugar, 10ml fresh ginger juice, cook together into a paste, let cool, store in a jar. Use 15ml each time, 2 times a day, for 5 days.

Cure bad breath and hangover:

100g grapefruit rice, chew and swallow gradually.

Take the juice of 1 grapefruit, 10g tangerine peel, 6g fresh ginger, add 10g rock sugar, cook together, use 1 dose per day, use continuously for 5 days.

Treatment of motion sickness or digestive disorders, nausea and dry mouth due to cold: 30 - 60g grapefruit segments, chew and swallow gradually.

Grapefruit seeds

Grapefruit seeds are bitter, warm, contain fat, and are effective in treating inguinal hernia pain, prolapse, and stomach pain.

How to make pectein from grapefruit seeds: choose grapefruit seeds, remove all the flat seeds. If there are many seeds, take about 20 seeds (to make pectin water for use in 1 day). Put grapefruit seeds in a cup, pour boiling water (still hot about 70 - 800C) to cover the seeds, stir continuously with chopsticks for about 5 - 6 minutes, then drain all the mucus into a separate cup. Continue doing this until all the mucus is removed (touch the seed shell and see if it is no longer mucus). Depending on the grapefruit variety, some types of grapefruit have a lot of pectin and need to beat the seeds with water 5 - 6 times to remove the mucus. Types with little pectin only need to do it 3 times.

Anti-constipation, lipid disorders, anti-obesity, cardiovascular disease: put 20 grapefruit seeds in a cup, pour boiling water (still hot about 70 - 800C) to cover the seeds, use a fork with many teeth to stir continuously for about 5 - 6 minutes then pour all the mucus into a separate cup. Continue doing so until all the mucus is removed (touch the seed shell to see if it is no longer mucus), drink 50ml 60 minutes after the main meal.

Anti-bleeding (teeth, nosebleeds, menorrhagia, heavy menstruation): prepare as above, use 20ml each time, 20 minutes apart/time in the first hour.

Skin care

A cocktail made from grapefruit, lemon, orange, thyme, rosemary, pumpkin seed oil… helps to increase the smoothness of the skin, and fight against the attack of environmental pollutants.

Some other effects of grapefruit

Scientists have proven that grapefruit has the ability to reduce the risk of prostate cancer, because it contains a large amount of lycopene (antioxidant). Tested on volunteers, applying a diet with 10 servings of lycopene-rich foods weekly. The results have surprised scientists, because 50% of them have little or no risk of prostate cancer.

Researchers found that grapefruit contains phenolic acid, which can prevent some chronic diseases such as arthritis and lupus.

According to experts, grapefruit is considered a “miracle drug”, especially for patients with diabetes. In addition, diabetic patients are also encouraged to eat 3 portions of grapefruit per day to improve the situation. And people at high risk of diabetes should also apply the above advice.

According to SK&DS