This product is the mature peel of the beautiful steetgum resin family evergreen small tree plant Orange (Citrus reticulata Blanco) and its cultivated varieties. Mainly produced in Guangdong, Fujian, Sichuan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other places. Harvest the peel when the fruit matures in late autumn and early winter and dry it in the sun or at low temperature. The one that has been aged for a long time is the best, so it is called Dried Tangerine Peel. Those produced in Xinhui, Guangdong, call it Xinhui Peel, Guangdong Dried Tangerine Peel. For raw use.

[Property]

Acrid and bitter, warm. act on spleen and lung channels.

regulating qi and invigorating spleen, drying dampness and resolving phlegm.

[Indications]

1. For spleen-stomach disharmony syndrome/pattern. This product is pungent and warm in nature, has the effect of moving qi to relieve pain, strengthening the spleen and harmonizing the middle, and because of its bitter taste and drying dampness, it cold-dampness the spleen stomach qi stagnation, abdominal distension and fullness pain, nausea, vomiting, It is especially suitable for diarrhea. It is often used with Atractylodes Rhizome and Magnolia Bark, such as Stomach-Calming Powder to treat spleen. Deficiency qi stagnation, abdominal pain, like to press, do not want to eat, abdominal distension and fullness after eating, loose stool, light tongue, can be combined with Tangshen, White Atractylodes Rhizome, Poria is equivalent to Extraordinary Efficacy Powder. If the stomach qi of the spleen is stagnant, and the abdominal distension and fullness pain is severe, use it with Aucklandia Root or Immature Orange Fruit to enhance the moving qi to The effect of relieving pain.
2. Used for wet phlegm and cold phlegm cough. It can not only dry dampness and resolving phlegm, but also warm and resolving cold-phlegm. It is also capable of ventilating lung and relieving cough. It is an important medicine for treating phlegm. To treat dampness and phlegm cough, it is often used synonymously with Pineilia and Poria, such as Two Old Ingredients Decoction. To treat cold phlegm and cough, it is often used synonymously with Dried Ginger, Asarum, and Schisandra Fruit.

[Documentation]

1. Benjing: "Healing heat in the chest, reversing qi, diluting water and grains, taking it for a long time to remove odor and lowering qi."
2. Bencao Gangmu: "Treatment Vomiting, nausea, epigastric upset, frequent vomiting of water, stuffiness, cough, malaria, constipation disease, acute mastitis, etc. The old saying goes: "Tangerine peel is better if it is red for a long time." Therefore, it is called red tangerine peel. The person who removes the white skin is called red tangerine exocarp."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoct and take, 3~10g.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product contains volatile oil, flavonoid glycosides (such as hesperidin), tangerine and vitamins B1, C, etc. The volatile oil of tangerine peel mainly contains limonene.

1. This product has an inhibitory effect on the isolated intestines of rabbits and mice, the gastric and intestinal motility of anesthetized rabbits and dogs, and the isolated uterus of mice; it shows tonic contraction of the in vivo uterus of anesthetized rabbits. .
2. A small dose of decoction can enhance cardiac contractility and increase cardiac output; a large dose can inhibit the heart.
3. Fresh tangerine peel decoction has the effect of dilating the trachea.
4. The hesperidin contained in it has a vitamin P-like effect, which can reduce the permeability of capillaries and prevent microvascular bleeding;
5. can antagonize the increase in vascular permeability caused by histamine and lysolecithin;
6. Can enhance fibrinolysis and anti-thrombosis;
7. has choleretic effect.

[Supplementary Medication]

Tangerine Seed: The seeds of orange. Bitter and flat in nature and flavor. Returns to liver meridian. Function: soothing the liver to dissipate binding. Used for hernia pain, testicular swelling and pain, breast lumps, etc. Decoct and take, 3~10g.

tangerine pith: It is the fiber bundle group between the mesocarp and endocarp of orange. The nature and flavor are sweet and bitter. Returns to the liver and lung meridians. Function: moving qi, unblocking meridians, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, used for chest pain and cough caused by phlegm stagnation in meridians. Decoction, 3 to 5g.

tangerine leaf: The leaf of the orange tree. The nature and taste are bitter and flat. Returns to liver meridian. Function: soothing liver moving qi, dispersing stagnation and reducing swelling. Used for flank pain, acute mastitis, breast agglomeration, etc. Decoct and take, 6~10g.