When eating oranges, some people like to remove the reticulated tendons that wrap the outer layer of orange flesh, that is, orange meridians, because they feel that it affects the taste, but traditional Chinese medicine believes that this is not only a good food therapy, but also a good medicine. It has a good therapeutic effect on the chest and flank swelling and pain, cough and phlegm or blood in the phlegm meridians. Therefore, it is best to eat oranges together when eating oranges.
Tangerines are rich in vitamin C and citric acid, the former has a beauty effect, and the latter has the effect of relieving fatigue, and one orange can almost meet the amount of vitamin C that the human body needs every day. Hesperidin can strengthen the toughness of capillaries, lower blood pressure, and dilate the coronary arteries of the heart. The cryptoflavin contained in oranges can increase bone mass and inhibit bone loss.
After eating oranges, many people often use orange peel to soak in water and drink, thinking that this is the tangerine peel that has the effect of drying and dampness, and many people on the Internet introduce tangerine peel directly as orange peel, which is a misunderstanding. Tangerine peel is not fresh orange peel, it is made by drying or drying ripe orange peel and storing it for a certain number of years. Fresh orange peel contains more volatile oil, does not have the same medicinal effect as tangerine peel, soaking in water with fresh orange peel, not only can not play the medicinal value of tangerine peel, due to the strong smell of volatile oil, it will also stimulate the stomach. Oranges have a higher sugar content, and compared with oranges, they are more likely to get hot, and it is best not to eat more for people with heat constipation and diabetes.