Grapefruit is a cool fruit.

Grapefruit is a common fruit in life. It is a mature fruit of Rutaceae. Sweet, sour and cold, it is a cool fruit. Eating grapefruit can clear the fire.

In addition, grapefruit can enter the lung, spleen and stomach meridians, and has the effects of regulating qi, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, invigorating stomach and promoting digestion, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, and relieving alcoholism. It has certain therapeutic effects on food retention, qi stagnation, stomachache, cough with excessive phlegm, senile asthma, chest tightness, anorexia and constipation.

Because grapefruit is a cool fruit, eating too much is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach, and may also lead to uncomfortable symptoms such as abdominal pain and diarrhea, so it is not advisable to eat too much, especially for people with spleen and stomach deficiency and diarrhea in loose stool, and it is even more inappropriate to eat such cool things.

This content was reviewed by Liu Yulan, Deputy Chief Physician, Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Chengde Medical College.

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