Tangerine peel is mainly produced in Hunan, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang and other places. Mandarin peel is one of the top ten medicines, produced in Xinhui, Sihui and other places in Guangdong, with the best quality. There is a saying: "One or two tangerine peels and one or two gold, a hundred years of tangerine peel wins".
Tangerine peel has a pungent taste, warm and bitter taste. Return to the spleen and lung meridians. It has the effect of regulating qi and strengthening the spleen, drying and dampness, and dissolving phlegm, and is used for abdominal distention, less food, vomiting and diarrhea, and more cough and phlegm.
Li Shizhen also mentioned in the "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Its (tangerine peel) cures all diseases, always takes its function of regulating qi and dampness, and supplements it with tonic medicine, laxative with laxative, rises with the same medicine, and descends with the medicine." ”
Drink tangerine peel in winter
Benefits for the lungs
Studies have found that tangerine peel has a significant effect on the discharge of mucus and pollutants from our lungs, and can also improve our lung environment, it contains an ingredient called limonene, which can stimulate our bronchi, can help everyone better expectorant, asthma, to a certain extent, can also discharge our lungs exhaust gas.
Tangerine peel is very significant in both edible value and medicinal value, today I recommend three combinations to you, you can often change to drink, persist for a period of time Our lung function will be significantly better.
3 combinations of tangerine peel
Radish tangerine peel water
There are many long-term smokers who have more or less lung problems, and after winter, they are more likely to have symptoms of yin deficiency and heat, which can easily cause pneumonia at this time. It is recommended that you can drink some radish tangerine peel water, mix radish raw, ginger and old tangerine peel together, add an appropriate amount of honey after boiling, and have a cup every day, you will find that your lung function is getting stronger and stronger.
Radish tangerine peel water has the effect of moistening the lungs, relieving cough, regulating qi and dissolving phlegm.
Radish has pungent, sweet, cool nature, belongs to the spleen meridian, stomach meridian, lung meridian and large intestine meridian, into the medicine part of the radish seed, called sulforaphane seed. The tangerine peel is warm and dry, the taste is bitter, and it enters the spleen meridian, lung meridian and stomach meridian, which has the effect of regulating qi and reducing inversion, drying and dampness and dissolving phlegm.
White radish and tangerine peel are boiled together in water to complement each other, white radish relieves the dryness of tangerine peel, and tangerine peel can warm the cool air of white radish. In addition, tangerine peel dissolves phlegm and white radish can relieve cough, which has a certain relieving effect on most patients with chronic bronchial and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and is often used as a food aid for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease**.
Tangerine peel + gingerThe combination of tangerine peel and ginger is one of the commonly used health care methods in traditional Chinese medicine. Ginger has the effect of dissipating cold, phlegm and cough in warmth, while tangerine peel can regulate qi and dissolve phlegm, dryness and dampness and stomach. Therefore, soaking tangerine peel and ginger together in water can effectively relieve symptoms such as cold cough and phlegm, and is a very practical health care method for people with bad lungs.
Tangerine peel + monk fruit
After getting up recently, I always feel that my throat is very dry and hoarse, and friends with phlegm in my throat can try the combination of tangerine peel + monk fruit, which can not only moisten the lungs and quench thirst, but also strengthen the spleen and stomach. Monk fruit is a sweet and cool medicinal material, which can directly act on our large intestine and lung meridians, and can have an excellent effect of clearing heat and moistening the lungs and relieving cough. Tangerine peel can dissolve the phlegm in our body, and when they are matched together, it can improve the cough, wheezing and phlegm in the throat.