Tangerine Peel: A very common Chinese medicine that contains many secrets that you don't know.
Tangerine peel, the name contains rich culture and history, also known as orange peel, Guangchen peel, Xinhui peel, fried orange peel and so on. It is the dried and ripe peel of the rutaceae plant tangerine and its cultivated varieties, like the traces of time, condensing the essence of nature. Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" has this description of tangerine peel: "Orange peel can be drained and dry, bitter can be dispersed, and warm can be harmonious." It cures all kinds of diseases, and always takes its work of rationalizing qi and dampness. The same tonic is supplemented, the same laxative is laxative, the same ascending medicine is rising, and the same descending medicine is decreasing. The spleen is the mother of vitality, and the lungs are the source of qi, so orange peel is the medicine of the two meridian qi, but it is supplemented with the rise and fall of the laxative. This passage concisely summarizes the properties and effects of tangerine peel.
The sexual taste of tangerine peel is pungent, bitter and warm, and it returns to the spleen and lung meridians. It has the effect of removing swelling, dampness, phlegm, and strengthening the spleen. In modern pharmacological studies, tangerine peel has been revealed to contain volatile oils, hesperidin, nobiletin, flavonoids, alkaloids, and trace elements such as potassium, magnesium, zinc, and strontium. These ingredients endow tangerine peel with antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anti-tumor, pro-digestion, expectorant, hepatoprotective, hypotensive and neuroprotective effects.
Tangerine peel is not only an important medicinal material, but also has entered people's daily life. It can be used to make tea, porridge, soup, cooking, preserved fruits, etc. For example, the ginger orange peel soup recorded in the "Jin Kui Yaolu" has the effect of stagnation and anti-nausea, and can ** retching, cold hands and feet and other diseases. The combination of tangerine peel and ginger is a common expectorant and cough reliever. Tangerine peel has a pungent and bitter taste, warm nature, can regulate qi and neutralize, reduce inversion and stop vomiting, dryness and dampness and phlegm;Ginger has a pungent taste and a slightly warm nature, which can dissipate cold and relieve the surface, reduce inversion and stop vomiting, dissolve phlegm and relieve cough. The combination of these two flavors can play a role in reducing inversion and relieving nausea, dissolving phlegm, dissipating cold and relieving cough.
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