Unexpected effects of grapefruit flowers

Grapefruit flowers are not only beautiful with a gentle fragrance but also have many unexpected uses.

In the season of grapefruit flowers in March, you only need a few grapefruit flower branches placed in the house, and everywhere you go you will smell the gentle fragrance in the air. Grapefruit flowers are not just for looking at.

According to physician Vu Quoc Trung - Traditional Medicine Clinic of Cam Ung Pagoda (Hanoi), grapefruit has many uses. In particular, the leaves, flowers, and peel of grapefruit are essential ingredients in oriental medicine.

Grapefruit leaves and flowers both contain essential oils, so they are often used to steam to relieve colds. Grapefruit flowers have a positive effect on the respiratory system. The grapefruit scent helps relieve colds, relax, reduce stress, and help you stay alert and clear-headed...

On the other hand, grapefruit flower is also a good medicine that can cure coughs, stomachaches, headaches due to fatigue, and bowel movements...

Grapefruit flowers are not only fragrant and beautiful but also have many uses.

Besides, the unexpected effect of grapefruit flowers is that people often use grapefruit flowers to distill into essential oils for beauty, hair washing, bathing or steaming... Grapefruit flower water is used for desserts, cakes, and porridge.

To make pure grapefruit essential oil, you just need to pick each grapefruit flower, wash it and let it drain. The jar for the grapefruit flowers should be a glass jar.

When the jar is dry, spread a layer of grapefruit flowers at the bottom and then sprinkle a layer of white sugar on top at a ratio of 1 kg of sugar/1 kg of grapefruit flowers. Finally, close the jar tightly for about 10 days so that the flowers start to release their sap into essential oils. Store in the refrigerator.

Pomelo flowers are also used as an ingredient to make extremely sophisticated dishes. Pomelo flowers can be used to make pomelo flower-flavored sugarcane and to flavor tea.

When the season of grapefruit flowers comes, it is also the season to make tapioca starch. After being filtered into powder, the tapioca starch will be dried in the sun to make the powder smooth and white. When the powder is ready to be packaged, people add grapefruit flower petals to make the tapioca starch tastier and more fragrant.

Some remedies from grapefruit flowers:

+ 10g of grapefruit flower and lotus flower each, steamed with tea, can open the mind and calm the spleen. 12g of grapefruit flower steamed with tea, can help eliminate stagnant air and treat yawning; 10g of grapefruit and white peony steamed with tea, can beautify.

+ Has the effect of reducing phlegm and facilitating bowel movements: 4g grapefruit flower, 1/2 cup mung bean flower, half a spoon of ginger juice, 1 spoon of rock sugar. Wash the grapefruit flower, put it in a pot and boil for about 10 minutes, then remove the residue and take the water. Add ginger juice, sugar, mung bean flower and continue boiling, then take it out to eat.

+ Grapefruit flowers cure stomach pain, overcome blood stasis: Use 5g grapefruit flowers, 1 teaspoon rock sugar. Boil in 200ml water, after boiling for 5 minutes add sugar and continue boiling. Use that water as daily tea.

+ Use leaves or flowers, grapefruit pulp, lemongrass leaves, guava leaves, and perilla leaves, a handful of each (50-100g) put in a pot of boiling water to steam to eliminate colds, induce sweating, and treat upper respiratory tract infections very effectively.

According to Health and Life