This product is the young fruit of beautiful steetgum resin family evergreen small tree plant lime (Citrus aurantium L.) and its cultivated varieties or sweet orange (Citrus sinensis Osbeck). Mainly produced in Sichuan, Jiangxi, Fujian, Jiangsu and other places. Collect free-falling fruits between May and June, cut them in half from the middle, and dry them in the sun or at low temperature. When used, wash it thoroughly, cut it into thin slices and dry it. Use raw or fried with bran.

[Property]

bitter and acrid, slightly cold, act on spleen, stomach and large intestine channels.

Destroy qi and eliminate stuffiness, resolving phlegm and a little accumulation.

[Indications]

1. Used for food accumulation syndrome/pattern, gastrointestinal heat accumulation qi stagnation syndrome/pattern. This product relieves the pain and relieves the pain, is good at breaking up Qi, removing stuffiness, and eliminating accumulation and stagnation. Treats food accumulation stagnation, abdominal stuffiness and fullness distending pain, often used synonymously with hawthorn fruit, Germinated Barley, Medicated Leaven . It is used to treat heat accumulation constipation and abdominal stuffiness distending pain. It is often used with Rhubarb Rhizoma, Mirabilite, Magnolia Bark, such as Major Purgative Decoction. To treat dampness-heat, diarrhea and tenesmus, it is often used together with Skullcap Root and Coptis Rhizome, such as Immature Orange Fruit Stagnation-Removing Pill .
2. It is used for phlegm stagnant chest gastric stuffiness, chest impediment thoracic accumulation. This product can regulate qi and resolving phlegm to eliminate stuffiness, relieve phlegm and relieve pain. To treat chest impediment due to chest yang deficiency and phlegm obstruction, it is often used with Longstamen Onion Bulb, Cinnamon Twig, Trichosanthis Fruit, such as Immature Orange Fruit, Longstamen Onion Bulb, and Cinnamon Twig Decoction. It is used in modern times to treat colicky pain caused by coronary heart disease and has certain curative effects. To treat heat accumulation and phlegm in the chest, it can be used together with Coptis Rhizome, Trichosanthis Fruit, Pineilia, such as Wenbing Tiaobian Small sunken breasts with Immature Orange Fruit soup. To treat epigastric stuffiness and loss of appetite, it can be used with Pineilia Koji and Magnolia Bark, such as Immature Orange Fruit Fullness-Eliminating Pill .
3. In addition, this product can also be used to treat gastric ectasia, gastroptosis, prolapse of uterus, prolapse of rectum and other organ ptosis diseases. It can be used together with tonifying qi and yang-boosting medicine to enhance the curative effect.

[Documentation]

1. Benjing: "It mainly relieves the itching in the skin due to strong wind, removes Hanre knots, stops dysentery, grows muscles, and benefits five zang-organs. tonifying qi lighten the body. "
2. Bielu: "Remove phlegm in the chest and hypochondrium, gradually stop water, break firmness, relieve swelling and fullness, epigastric distress stuffiness, inverse qi, hypochondriac pain, and relieve stomach pain. qi, stop sloppy diarrhea, improve vision."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoction, 8~10g, large amount can be used up to 30g. After frying, the properties are milder.

[Precaution]

Pregnant women should use with caution.

Lime peel contains volatile oil and flavonoid glycosides (mainly hesperidin, neohesperidin, naringin, wild sumac glycoside, honeysuckle flower glycoside, etc.), N-methyltyramine, p-hydroxyforin, etc.

• Immature Orange Fruit can relieve small intestine spasms caused by acetylcholine or barium chloride.
• Administering Immature Orange Fruit or Submature Bitter Orange decoction to dogs with gastric fistulas and intestinal fistulas can increase the contraction rhythm of the stomach soup.
• Immature Orange Fruit or Submature Bitter Orange decoction has an inhibitory effect on the isolated uterus of pregnant and non-pregnant mice, and has an stimulating effect on the isolated and in situ uterus of pregnant and non-pregnant rabbits.
• Immature Orange Fruit, Submature Bitter Orange decoction or tincture intravenous injection has a cardiotonic effect on the isolated heart of animals.
• Immature Orange Fruit injection intravenously can increase coronary, cerebral, and renal blood flow and reduce cerebral and renal vascular resistance.
• The ethanol extracts of Immature Orange Fruit, Submature Bitter Orange decoction and Submature Bitter Orange have obvious blood pressure boosting effects when injected intravenously into anesthetized dogs and rabbits.
• Immature Orange Fruit can cause the gallbladder to contract and increase the tone of the sphincter of Oddi.
• Has strong anti-allergic activity.
• Immature Orange Fruit and Submature Bitter Orange have the effect of inhibiting thrombosis.

[Supplementary Medication]

Submature Bitter Orange: The nearly mature fruit (pulp removed) of the small tree plant lime and its cultivated varieties of the beautiful steetgum resin family, used raw or stir-fried with bran. The taste, meridian tropism and function are the same as those of Immature Orange Fruit, but the effect is milder and better than moving qi. The usage and dosage are the same as Immature Orange Fruit.