European Grape Fruit

Traditional Use

Primary Actions

• Tonifies qi and blood - Pu Tao is used as a mild restorative fruit for fatigue, weakness, palpitations, and depleted constitution after illness or overwork.
• Generates fluids and moistens dryness - traditional use includes thirst, dry mouth, and deficiency cough when fluids have been damaged.
• Strengthens the sinews and bones - it is sometimes included in tonic-food and medicinal-wine traditions for weak legs, low back fatigue, and rheumatic aching.
• Promotes urination - gentle diuretic use appears in traditional guidance for edema and damp accumulation.

Secondary Actions

• Pu Tao is more often treated as a nourishing food-medicine ingredient than as a high-priority acute treatment herb, so it commonly appears in wines, syrups, pastes, and recovery diets.
• Its mild nature makes it suitable as supportive therapy, but it should not be confused with stronger blood tonics or stronger damp-draining medicinals.

Classic Formulas

• Pu Tao Jiu - medicinal wine tradition for weakness, sore sinews, and chronic depletion.
• Tonic fruit combinations with Da Zao or Long Yan Rou are traditional food-herb approaches for mild qi-blood weakness and convalescence.
• Thirst-relieving preparations use Pu Tao when summer-heat or chronic dryness has consumed fluids without creating intense internal cold.

Classical References

• TCMWiki describes Pu Tao as sweet, sour, and neutral, entering the Lung, Spleen, and Kidney to tonify qi and blood, strengthen tendons and bones, and induce diuresis.
• Later Chinese dietetic tradition places Pu Tao among the gentler fruit medicinals that support recovery and dryness without the complexity of harsher herbs.