Preparation method of dried licorice yellow peel

Many people have always thought that licorice and dried tangerine peel are the same medicinal material, especially since they look similar in appearance. In fact, they are not. Licorice and dried tangerine peel are two different medicinal materials. Licorice is often found in many cough medicines, and licorice is very effective in treating coughs. Huangpi is a kind of fruit peel that has the effect of dispelling wind and cold. So how to make dried licorice Huangpi?

Characteristics of licorice root: The root is cylindrical, 25~100 cm long and 0.6~3.5 cm in diameter. The skin has varying degrees of tightness and the surface is reddish brown or grayish brown. The rhizome is cylindrical, with bud scars on the surface and pith in the middle of the cross section. It has a slight odor and a sweet and special taste. Functions and indications: clearing away heat and detoxifying, removing phlegm and relieving cough, and relieving abdominal pain, etc. It likes a dark, humid, dry climate with long sunshine and low temperature. Licorice grows mostly in arid and semi-arid desert steppes, desert edges and loess hilly areas. The roots and rhizomes are used for medicinal purposes.

【Effects and Functions】: Replenishing Qi and tonifying the middle; relieving acute pain; moistening the lungs and relieving cough; purging fire and detoxifying; harmonizing various medicines. It is mainly used for fatigue, poor appetite, thin muscles and sallow complexion, palpitations and shortness of breath, abdominal pain and loose stools, cramps and pain in the limbs, irritability, cough and asthma, sore throat, sore and swollen carbuncles, fetal toxicity in children, and drug and food poisoning. It is used for spleen and stomach weakness, fatigue, palpitations and shortness of breath, cough with excessive sputum, cramps and pain in the abdomen and limbs, carbuncles and sores, and to relieve the toxicity and potency of drugs.

Huangpi's profile:

[Properties and flavors] Fragrant, neutral in nature, sour, slightly bitter and spicy.

【Ingredients】The seeds contain 53.2% oil. Both the peel and leaves contain volatile oils. The leaves also contain phenols, flavonoids and amino acids. The bark contains a variety of bioalkaloids such as scutellaria baicalensis, phellodendron chinense, terpenoid alkaloids, as well as alcohols, mucilages and ester components.

[Alias] Rescue, Stinky Cop

【Classification】 Cornaceae

【Indications】Anti-wind, cold and dampness; low back pain; traumatic injury; fracture

[Ecological environment] Grown in sparse streamside forests or evergreen broad-leaved forests at an altitude of 1000-3000m

[Harvest and storage] Harvested in spring and summer, used fresh or sun-dried

[Resource Distribution] Published in Southwest China, Hubei, Tibet, etc.

The efficacy and function of yellow peel:

1. Relieve stagnant heat and relieve hernia pain. The leaves can prevent and treat influenza. The root can treat gas pain and hernia pain. This is a folk medicine widely used by people in the south.

2. Efficacy: dispel wind and cold; activate blood circulation and relieve pain.