Grapefruit treat abdominal pain, indigestion

To treat abdominal pain, bloating due to cold, take young grapefruit leaves to boil or roast them on the navel when it's hot.

Grapefruit (Photo: kochform)

Pomelo is a versatile tree; The leaves, flowers and fruits can all be used as food and medicine. In Nam pharmacy, the goddess, Tue Tinh wrote: ' Grapefruit makes relaxation, treating vomiting when pregnant, treating lazy eating, abdominal pain, undigested alcohol consumption'; 'Grapefruit peel except phlegm, hemolysis, analgesic, intestinal pain, edema, when used to remove white pulp to use yellow star'.

Cure stomach pain : Take a clean wash of grapefruit seeds into a glass cup, pour boiling water, cover tightly, after 2-3 hours drinking water. Can add a little sugar for easy drinking. Drink continuously for many days.

Treatment of colic, non-digestive : Grapefruit juice water drink, use 4-12 g in the form of decoction

Cure hemorrhoids : Washed grapefruit roots, finely chopped (20 g / day) sharp drink.

Treatment of testicular scrotum, painful scrotum : new young pomelo seed formation: 1 fruit, peeling yellow star, lowering earth to make drinking water. Use for a few days.

Cure colic due to splenomegaly : 12 g grapefruit peel with 1 bowl of water, half bowl. Drink continuously for a week.

In addition, grapefruit juice is used as a thirsty medicine (diabetes insipidus), a lack of vitamin C. Intake of grapefruit is used to treat arthritis, eating indigestion.

Note : Grapefruit juice when taken with western medicine may not be healthy because it contains furanocoumarin - a substance that can affect the absorption of pharmaceuticals.

Researchers also recommend not brushing your teeth right after eating grapefruit, because the acidic fruits are acidic so it is easy to weaken enamel and cause tooth erosion.