What are the effects and functions of citron?

Citron is a relatively common Chinese patent medicine. The oil in it can reduce irritation to the stomach and intestines, warm the gastrointestinal function, effectively promote gastrointestinal motility, and excrete some gas in the body. The most important thing is that many people now often have symptoms of coughing and chest tightness, and those who have inflammation in the body. Citron can not only reduce inflammation, but also has antiviral effects. It has rich effects on many gastrointestinal tracts.

The volatile oils it contains have a mild stimulating effect on the gastrointestinal tract, can promote gastrointestinal motility and secretion of digestive juices, eliminate intestinal gas, and have an expectorant effect.

1. Anti-inflammatory Effects:

The hesperidin contained in this product can improve the cell coagulation in the conjunctival blood vessels and the reduced capillary resistance of guinea pigs caused by vitamin C deficiency, and can reduce the coagulation of horse blood cells. Feeding rats with thrombogenic feed or atherogenic feed can prolong their survival time. It can stimulate the growth rate of guinea pigs that are deficient in vitamin C and increase the content of vitamin C in the adrenal glands, spleen and white blood cells of guinea pigs.

2. Antiviral effect:

Before adding hesperidin to vesicular stomatitis virus, mouse fibroblasts were pre-incubated in 200 μg/ml hesperidin, which protected the cells from virus invasion for about 24 hours. Pretreatment of HeLa cells can prevent influenza virus infection. However, its antiviral activity can be eliminated by hyaluronidase.