Pomelo is the most in-season fruit in autumn. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, pomelo is sweet, sour, and cold in nature, with functions such as strengthening the stomach to aid digestion, promoting qi to reduce phlegm, and promoting weight loss and skin radiance. Regular consumption can have a辅助 therapeutic effect on diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and arteriosclerosis, and can also help with fitness and beauty for those who are overweight. Let's follow the editor to see what the effects and functions of pomelo are!
What are the effects and functions of pomelo?
Pomelo Tea Making
1. Health Benefits: The pectin in pomelo can not only reduce damage to the arterial walls but also control LDL cholesterol levels. Long-term use can alleviate the burden on the digestive system and play a positive role in preventing heart disease. Pomelo peel tea can help sober up. When appetite increases in autumn and winter and you overeat, drinking a cup of pomelo tea can aid digestion and reduce the burden on the stomach and intestines.
2. Nutritional Value: It contains very rich protein, organic acids, and essential elements for the human body such as calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, and sodium, which is difficult for other fruits to match. Pomelo pulp is also rich in vitamin C and components similar to insulin, with effects such as lowering blood sugar, lowering blood lipids, weight loss, and beautifying the skin. Regular consumption has an auxiliary therapeutic effect on diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and arteriosclerosis, and has the function of strengthening the body and beautifying the skin for obese people. In addition, pomelo contains the physiologically active substance naringin, which can reduce blood viscosity and reduce thrombus formation, thus also having a preventive effect on cerebrovascular diseases.
3. Pomelo also has the effects of strengthening the stomach, moistening the lungs, nourishing the blood, clearing the intestines, and promoting bowel movements. It can promote wound healing and has good auxiliary therapeutic effects on sepsis. In addition, pomelo contains the physiologically active substance naringin, which can reduce blood viscosity and reduce thrombus formation, thus also having a good preventive effect on cerebrovascular diseases such as cerebral thrombosis and stroke. Fresh pomelo pulp, due to its insulin-like components, is an ideal food for diabetic patients.
Let's take a look at the therapeutic effects of pomelo!
1. Lowering Blood Sugar
In fresh pomelo juice, there are insulin-like components that can lower blood sugar, making it an excellent therapeutic food for diabetic and obese patients.
2. Relieving Phlegm and Coughing
The outer peel of the pomelo is the commonly used traditional Chinese medicine called Huajuhong. The limonene and pinene it contains, when inhaled, can make respiratory secretions more abundant and thinner, which is conducive to the discharge of phlegm. It has a good effect of relieving phlegm and coughing and is an excellent product for treating chronic cough and asthma in the elderly and asthmatic cough due to deficiency-cold.