Grapefruit, also known as Wendan, Xiangluan, Zhuluan, Neizi, etc. It is a mature fruit of Rutaceae pomelo, which is produced in China, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Zhejiang, Sichuan and other southern regions. Grapefruit is sweet and sour, cool and moist, rich in nutrition and high in medicinal value. It is one of the fruits that people like to eat, and it is also recognized by the medical community as the most therapeutic fruit.
Grapefruit is Huang Jinguo, and it is a treasure from the inside out. Pomelo meat has the functions of regulating qi, resolving phlegm, invigorating spleen, moistening lung and relaxing bowels, and is rich in protein, organic acids, vitamins and essential elements such as calcium, phosphorus, magnesium and sodium. Can be used for treating anorexia, anorexia and dyspepsia during pregnancy, helping digestion, resolving phlegm, quenching thirst, relieving hangover and relieving breath.
In addition to deodorizing in the refrigerator and soaking hands to treat frostbite, grapefruit peel can also be used to make tea. Because grapefruit contains beneficial ingredients such as naringin, it will be more active and play its greatest role after heating. Can be washed directly, brewed with boiling water, or added with honey, which can play a role in treating winter diseases such as cough and asthma.
Although grapefruit is good, it is not suitable for eating on an empty stomach. Grapefruit is often cold and cool, and it is a cold thing. Eating on an empty stomach or eating too much is easy to damage spleen yang. Chinese medicine suggests that grapefruit should be eaten after meals (for example, after lunch, it is better to eat at intervals), and generally it should not exceed 1/4 a day. People with spleen and stomach deficiency or cold, children and the elderly, and people with recent abdominal pain and diarrhea should not eat more.
Grapefruit contains a large number of active ingredients, which can inhibit the activity of liver drug enzymes. Many drugs need to be metabolized by liver drug enzymes and eventually excreted. If you take grapefruit at the same time, the drug cannot be metabolized and accumulates in the body in large quantities, which may cause excessive efficacy, affect treatment and even have adverse reactions.
1. Hypolipidemic drugs
If you take grapefruit while taking lipid-lowering drugs such as atorvastatin, lovastatin and simvastatin, it will increase the possibility of muscle pain and rhabdomyolysis, and in severe cases, acute renal failure may occur.
2. Antihypertensive drugs
Because grapefruit itself has the function of lowering blood pressure, and it can also increase the blood concentration of antihypertensive drugs, eating grapefruit or drinking grapefruit juice during taking antihypertensive drugs such as nifedipine, nimodipine and verapamil is like taking too much medicine, which makes blood pressure plummet, causing dizziness, palpitation and fatigue, and inducing angina pectoris, myocardial infarction or stroke.
3. Sedative sleeping pills
Grapefruit will increase the possibility of dizziness and drowsiness caused by diazepam, midazolam and other drugs, especially for aerial workers and drivers.
4. Contraceptive pills
Grapefruit will hinder women's absorption of contraceptives. Women who take birth control pills may fail to use contraception if they eat grapefruit after sex.
5. Anti-allergic drugs
Grapefruit may induce adverse reactions of anti-allergic drugs such as Terfenadine, causing dizziness, palpitation, arrhythmia and other symptoms.
6. Immunosuppressants
Grapefruit can increase the blood concentration of immunosuppressants such as cyclosporine and increase the toxicity of liver and kidney. If these drugs are taken with grapefruit and other fruits for a long time, there is a risk of inducing tumors.
When taking the above drugs, it is best to keep a distance from grapefruit. To ensure safety, it is best to avoid eating grapefruit or drinking grapefruit juice 3 days before taking the medicine and 6 hours after taking the medicine. Now is the season to eat grapefruit, so pay more attention to it, and don't be greedy and cause irreparable consequences.
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